Here’s this week’s poster, a quad design for the festival hit Shotgun Stories. Very reminiscent of the elements that have made No Country for Old Men such a visual draw: gun slung over the shoulder, open land, big sky, serious foreboding.
This first-time drama from writer-director Jeff Nichols — about a real family feud – started making […]
For film fans, not much compares to the excitement of a new discovery. As Martin Scorsese reminds us, too many movies have been lost or destroyed, so here’s the latest find to get excited about: the newly restored 1919 silent classic The Dragon Painter, now on DVD.
Milestone Films, the folks that proudly offer restored DVDs for
I […]
M. Night Shyamalan is screwed. He gave the movie world one of its best twists with The Sixth Sense… and they’ve never forgotten it. Every movie he’s made since has been expected to top that surprise ending. And none has. But, he tries again with his latest, The Happening. And those trademark twists are so expected […]
In a slick move reminiscent of Back to the Future, The Matrix and Kill Bill, the final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, will be split and released as two movies, one in May 2010 and the other in November 2010. That will officially make Harry Potter movies #7 and #8 (whew).
In Deathly Hallows, […]
Here’s no big surprise: Sarah Polley, a darling of Canadian cinema, along with her outstanding debut film Away From Her, were the toast of the town, er, country, at Canada’s 28th annual Genie Awards.
The quiet little film, which also received a couple of Oscar nominations, won in the following categories:
:: Motion Picture
:: Director, Sarah Polley
:: Actor, Gordon Pinsent
:: Actress, Julie Christie […]
Many books have been written about John Adams, but none better than David McCullough’s. So, it’s no surprise McCullough’s book is the basis for John Adams, a seven-part HBO miniseries highlighting the United States’ first 50 years and Adams’ struggle to put forth arguably the world’s greatest document, The U.S. Constitution. The series premieres this […]
