With the summer blockbuster season over, the fall Oscar push is just around the corner. Heading up that push is Twentieth Century Fox’s Australia starring Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman. Read the official synopsis below: “AUSTRALIA is an epic and romantic action adventure, set in that country on the explosive brink of World War II. [...]
How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d. Labour and rest, that equal periods keep; “Obedient slumbers that can wake and weep;” Desires compos’d, affections ever ev’n, Tears that delight, and sighs that waft to Heav’n [...]
Synopsis: Veteran police detective Ray Ferguson (Regis Philbin) is a week away from retirement. He’s put away some of the worst crooks in New York City’s history. He and his wife are about to close on a new beach home and live out their lives in style on Long Island when suddenly his new trainee [...]
After the ugly incident (read about it here) involving prominent critics Roger Ebert and Lou Lumineckat the Toronto Film Festival we’ve had several inquiries, not about the incident itself, but about the film during which it happened. It was during a screening of the Danny Boyle film, Slumdog Millionaire which tells the tale of an [...]
The Coen Brothers present us with the most nefarious, absurdly idiotic, and intensely repulsive characters, yet somehow manage to make us fall in love with them. This is true of all the Coens’ films, and Burn After Reading is no exception. This zany comedy is about as far from the massively successful bloodfest, No Country [...]
Warner Bros plans to re-release “The Dark Knight” on IMAX screens throughout the country in January 2009, just in time to refresh the memories of Oscar voters. It’s not yet clear if it’ll hit standard screens as well. In addition to increasing their chances for a shiny little statue, there’s a good chance this ploy [...]
Remakes are dangerous territory. Like adaptations, a tangible, quantified (box-office gross, copies sold, etc.) standard already exists with which the remake is burdened. With the added pressure and inevitable audience biases to cope with, many directors wisely shy away from such projects unless either the resources and talent are available to improve upon the original [...]
Beloved Chicago Sun-Times film critic, Roger Ebert, was attacked earlier this month during a screening of the Danny Boyle film, Slumdog Millionaire, at the Toronto Film Festival. The New York Daily News reported that shortly after the film began, “a man in the audience started yelling, ‘Don’t touch me!’ People looked around and shrugged. Ten [...]
The annual Tallgrass Film Festival will be taking place this October 23-26. For those of you who aren’t aware, the Tallgrass Film Fest is a richly diverse, “stubbornly independent” film festival that takes place in the heart of the country in Wichita, Kansas. Rapidly growing in popluarity since its inception in 2003, it attracts over [...]
Last year was an excellent year for American cinema. A phrase rarely uttered, but entirely deserved by the year of 2007. There were at least four or five films that each could have taken Best Picture honors at the Academy Awards if released in another year. What is good for the film industry makes a [...]
