September 2008
15 articles
Sneak Peak: Australia
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...
Sep 28, 2008 / Eric M. ArmstrongEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
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...
Sep 23, 2008 / Eric M. ArmstrongRegis Philbin, Carrot Top Star in Crime Thriller
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...
Sep 20, 2008 / Eric M. ArmstrongSneak Peak: Slumdog Millionaire
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...
Sep 19, 2008 / Eric M. ArmstrongBurn After Reading (2008)
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,...
Sep 18, 2008 / Eric M. ArmstrongBangkok Dangerous (2008)
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...
Sep 12, 2008 / Eric M. ArmstrongDark Knight to be Re-released January 2009
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...
Sep 12, 2008 / Eric M. ArmstrongEbert Whacked by Post Critic
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...
Sep 12, 2008 / Eric M. ArmstrongTallgrass Film Festival
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...
Sep 11, 2008 / Eric M. ArmstrongTop Ten Movies of 2007
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...
Sep 8, 2008 / Eric M. ArmstrongChoke
Actor-turned-director Clark Gregg shows he is as adept behind the camera as he is in front of it with CHOKE, a wickedly colorful dark comedy about mothers and sons, sexual compulsion, and the sordid...
Sep 6, 2008 / Eric M. ArmstrongLakeview Terrace
A young interracial couple move into their dream home and are increasingly harassed by their next-door neighbor, a tightly wound black LAPD officer. When the couple decides to fight back the feud...
Sep 6, 2008 / Eric M. ArmstrongRighteous Kill
A pair of veteran New York City police detectives are on the trail of a vigilante serial killer. After 30 years as partners in the pressure cooker environment of the NYPD, highly decorated Detectives...
Sep 6, 2008 / Eric M. ArmstrongThe Duchess
Long before the concept existed, the Duchess of Devonshire, Georgiana Spencer (KEIRA KNIGHTLEY), was the original “It Girl.” Like her direct ancestor Princess Diana, she was ravishing, glamorous and...
Sep 6, 2008 / Eric M. ArmstrongSchultze Gets the Blues (2005)
I have never felt such compassion for a portly, German, retired salt-miner that plays a mean polka piano-accordion. Of course I’ve never encountered such an individual until Schultze Gets the Blues ,...
Sep 1, 2008 / Eric M. ArmstrongRecent Articles
- Review: ‘A War’ explores war’s quiet, forgotten horrors
- TMA FilmCast #33 — Vera Chytilova and the Czech New Wave
- The fantasist: The comic art of Woody Allen
- Tribeca picks up North American rights to ‘Misery Loves Comedy’ at Sundance
- TMA FilmCast #32 — Alison Frank interviews Ana Geislerova
- ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ tops Online Film Critics Awards
- TMA FilmCast #31 — Alison Frank reports from 67th Locarno Film Fest
- 5 ½ hour film dominates awards at Locarno
- Shorts at #Locarno67: meditation vs testing the audience’s patience
- ‘The Fool’: A modern propaganda film
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