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Contest: Win ‘Being Flynn’ tickets, soundtrack, book!
More free stuff! All right, here’s the deal. The Moving Arts has teamed up with Focus Features again, this time to offer you the chance to win a prize pack in advance of the upcoming release of...
Feb 27, 2012 / Eric M. ArmstrongWe’ll always have ‘Casablanca’
Judging from a conversation I overheard before the start of the screening, it seems that there will always be people who haven’t seen Casablanca (1942). ‘I can’t believe you guys have never seen it,’...
Feb 20, 2012 / Alison FrankAn open letter to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings
Reed Hastings, CEO and co-founder of Netflix. Mr. Hastings, Assuming you’ve recently been inundated with angry emails, I thought I’d quickly and respectfully explain why so many of your customers are...
Sep 20, 2011 / Eric M. ArmstrongScorsese hopes to adapt Dostoevsky’s ‘The Gambler’
Martin Scorsese has many things: the respect of his filmmaking peers, a secure place in the pantheon of Hollywood’s great directors, and an Academy Award, to boot. He also has a lot of hobbies,...
Sep 19, 2011 / Torsten ReitzBritish Film Institute 2011: A Programme for a Conservative Era?
To mark the approaching end of the festival, the BFI kindly invited me to a lunch where they presented their programme for 2011. I have to say that there was little there to make me sit up and take...
Oct 29, 2010 / Alison Frank‘The Hobbit’ Closing in on Greenlight from MGM, New Line, Warner Bros.
After years of delays, setbacks, ecstatic highs and devastating lows, fans of J.R.R. Tolkien’s work may soon find themselves back in Middle-earth. According to LA Times Warner Bros., its subsidiary...
Oct 3, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongGreen Lantern’s Suit Will Be Computer Generated
Almost immediately following the announcement of each new superhero movie debate rages about how the hero’s suit, usually the most visual and recognizable part of the character, should be transferred...
Apr 12, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongStruggling Blockbuster Strikes Deal With WB, Fox, Sony
Once the king of home video movie rentals, Blockbuster has found itself in dire straits competing with popular services like Netflix and Redbox. But the struggling company is doing everything it can...
Apr 7, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongEven Legends Flub Their Lines; Bogart, Cagney, Robinson Blooper Reel
Humphrey Bogart and Jimmy Cagney were the epitome of the man’s man in Hollywood’s golden age. They never missed a step, always knew the right (or wrong in Cagney’s case) thing to say. But this annual...
Feb 24, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongPercy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010)
Everything you’ve heard about “Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief” is true. It is a poorly acted poorly written kids’ fantasy that borrows in equal parts from Harry Potter and the...
Feb 20, 2010 / Eric M. Armstrong‘Avatar’ Becomes #2 Grosser All-time, On Pace For World Record
After the 20-minute clip screened at last year’s San Diego Comic-Con was met with lukewarm reception, James Cameron’s “Avatar” was bombarded with almost universal skepticism. Giant blue aliens?...
Jan 7, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongThe Lovely Bones (2009)
Peter Jackson’s first feature since 2005’s remake of “King Kong” is, contrary to first impressions, not so much a departure from that picture. The former gross-out horror auteur-turned Oscar-winning...
Jan 7, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongAvatar (2009)
I was made by a computer! There are big movies, and then there are BIG movies. James Cameron’s technical chef d’oeuvre and decade-long undertaking, “Avatar,” is neither — it’s bigger. It occupies a...
Jan 5, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongScorsese to Receive Cecil B. DeMille Award
Martin Scorsese has been selected by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as the recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award for the 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 17. DeMille, one of the...
Nov 14, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongClash of the Titans Trailer
In Clash of the Titans, the ultimate struggle for power pits men against kings and kings against gods. But the war between the gods themselves could destroy the world. Born of a god but raised as a...
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