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The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
Experiencing a good Nicolas Cage movie is like witnessing a total solar eclipse; it’s rare, and if you’re lucky enough to catch one, it’s spectacular. Combine the eccentric Cage at his bizarre best...
Dec 3, 2009 / Eric M. Armstrong‘Let Me In’ Adds Jenkins, Smit-McPhee
We reported some time ago that the excellent Swedish vampire flick, 2008’s “Let the Right One In,” was already getting the remake treatment via “Cloverfield” director, Matt Reeves, and would be...
Oct 2, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongMarilyn Manson, Nick Nolte to Star in ‘King Shot’
Alejandro Jodorowsky’s strange and unique, “King Shot” is sure to turn heads. The $7.4m film was announced in Cannes last year as a “metaphysical spaghetti western,” and will star Nick Nolte, Udo...
May 23, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongTMA FilmCast #4 – Knowing, Dragonball Evolution
This week we review Nic Cage’s “Knowing,” and Chow Yun-fat in “Dragonball Evolution.” Pardon the technical difficulties. Towards the end, there’s about 6 minutes of show missing thanks to some faulty...
Apr 8, 2009 / Eric M. Armstrong5 Actors Ruined by Winning an Oscar
The Academy Award is the most prestigious and coveted recognition an actor can receive, and signifies a supreme achievement in the medium of the motion picture–at least that’s the idea. But, there...
Apr 1, 2009 / Eric M. Armstrong…Around (2008)
Independent film, much like its musical counterpart, is undergoing something of a renaissance. Industry-grade equipment is getting cheaper, technology has closed the gap between video and film, and...
Mar 29, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongKnowing (2009) ★★★
Nicolas Cage is an anomaly. After displaying nothing short of brilliance in gems like The Coens’ “Raising Arizona” and the Charlie Kauffman/Spike Jonze masterwork, “Adaptation,” this oddity of an...
Mar 27, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongJohn Lennon’s Childhood Told by the Weinsteins
John Lennon, who once said he wasn’t one for autobiography, will be the subject of a new film. The rights to “Nowhere Boy,” a feature-length biopic of sorts based on the childhood of the seminal...
Mar 17, 2009 / 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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