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Coraline (2009)
In the age of super high-tech CGI and in a world dominated by Pixar, It’s wonder that a film like Coraline managed to even get made. Stop-motion animation is a painstaking, arthritis-inducing process...
Feb 14, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongThe Visitor (2008)
The dichotomy is familiar. On one hand we have the bloated studio movies packed with special effects and propped up with multi-million dollar marketing budgets. In the smaller, less publicized corner...
Feb 13, 2009 / Scott Armstrong2009 SAG Winners: 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
The Screen Actors Guild prides itself on being the best indicator for the Academy Awards which are ever-so difficult to predict. We’ll get to see how accurate SAG Awards are next month. For now, take...
Jan 26, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongDoubt (2008)
On the surface, John Patrick Shanley’s “Doubt”–adapted from his own Pulitzer Prize-winning play–seems to explore, with a reluctance to definitively reveal, whether or not a Catholic priest molests a...
Jan 21, 2009 / Scott ArmstrongWill Smith to play Barack Obama?
Back off high-profile, well-spoken, African-American Hollywood movie stars. Summer blockbuster hero, Will Smith, has already called dibs on playing President Elect Barack Obama in a biopic if it were...
Jan 17, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongSneak PeaK: The Day the Earth Stood Still
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL is 20th Century Fox’s contemporary reinvention of its 1951 classic. Keanu Reeves portrays Klaatu, an alien whose arrival on our planet triggers a global upheaval. As...
Nov 26, 2008 / Eric M. ArmstrongSneak 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. 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. 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. 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...
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