October 2009
30 articles
The Invention of Lying (2009)
Who wants to have fat kids with snub noses? Jennifer Garner sure doesn’t, and if you’re being honest, you probably don’t either. The difference between our world and the one Garner and Ricky Gervais...
Oct 31, 2009 / Eric M. Armstrong2009 Tallgrass Film Fest Roundup
As they say, all good things must come to an end. The 2009 Tallgrass Film Festival has come and gone. Another year, another successful event Wichita can count among its artistic and cultural...
Oct 29, 2009 / Brian GraySean Penn Meets Privately With Venezualan Pres Hugo Chavez
Controversial Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, announced that he met privately with Academy Award Winning actor, Sean Penn, on Wednesday. THR reports that Penn may have plans to shoot a film in...
Oct 29, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongZombieland (2009)
Suspicion of intellectualism and academia have been the unfortunate byproducts of the rise of the big dumb Hollywood movie. Film critics, once a respected and authoritative source of reasoned...
Oct 28, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongFirst Official ‘A-Team’ Photo
The first official photo from Joe Carnahan’s “A-Team starring Bradley Cooper as Lt. Templeton “Faceman” Peck, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson as Sgt. “B.A.” Baracus, Sharlto Copley as Capt. “Howling Mad”...
Oct 25, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongStallone Thinking About ‘Rocky 7’
Sylvester Stallone has made a career out of rehashing a single beloved performance and storyline over and over and over and over and over again. And who can blame him? Wouldn’t you if you had the...
Oct 25, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongCharlize Theron the New Mad Max?
Charlize Theron to replace raving mad Mel Gibson’s iconic Mad Max? Maybe. E! News Online is reporting on information from “multiple sources” that say that the Oscar-winning sexpot is the front runner...
Oct 22, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongFincher to Adapt ‘House of Cards’
David Fincher, director of “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “Zodiac,” and “Fight Club,” has teamed with Media Rights Capital to adapt the popular British miniseries, “House of Cards,” for...
Oct 22, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongParanormal Activity (2009)
Thump… Creeeak….. THUMP! Fear. The invaluable evolutionary tool that has enabled our survival of predation from prehistoric menaces like the saber-toothed tiger and aided our scattered tribes into...
Oct 22, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongMary and Max Trailer
Mary and Max Trailer Oct 21st, 2009 | By Eric M. Armstrong | Category: Trailers Spanning 20 years and 2 continents, Mary and Max tells of a pen-pal relationship between two very different people:...
Oct 21, 2009 / Eric M. Armstrong‘Precious’ Director to Helm ‘Saigon’; Wagner to Produce
Lee Daniels, the much lauded director of festival darling and his second feature, “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire,” may very well direct a film version of “Miss Saigon” with former...
Oct 21, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongTallgrass Film Fest Tickets; Early Bird Special!
The folks over at the Tallgrass Film Festival have been kind enough to offer those few of you without tickets yet a special opportunity to save some money and still get access to Wichita’s premier...
Oct 21, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongRidley Scott, Angelina Jolie Join Forces for ‘Gucci’
Ridley Scott is after Angelina Jolie to play the role of Patrizia Reggiano, the femme fatale sentenced to 29 years in prison for orchestrating the murder of her ex-husband, Maurizio Gucci in “Gucci,”...
Oct 20, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongThe Informant! (2009) ★★★½
The Informant! (2009) ★★★½ Oct 18th, 2009 | By Eric M. Armstrong | Category: Comedy , Film Reviews , Thriller Manic depressive disorder, better known as bipolar disorder, is no laughing matter. Those...
Oct 18, 2009 / Eric M. Armstrong‘The Wiz’: From Broadway to Bust
Part of being a filmmaker is accepting the fact that you’re mental masterpiece may turn into a cinematic failure. Many failed films don’t succeed due to a variety of reasons including low budget,...
Oct 17, 2009 / Greg KitaRecent 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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