Earlier Release Date for THE LIMITS OF CONTROL

Jim Jarmusch’s new lone-wolf feature, The Limits of Control, has a new release date. Focus Features has announced the limited May 22 release will move back three weeks, with a new premiere date of May 1.
Seems like a heck of a way to kick off the month.
Check out our The Limits of Control trailer preview.
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Least Creative Sequel Title Ever

I won’t keep you in suspense: The upcoming Fast & Furious has gotta be the least creative sequel title ever. Universal took the original and simply dropped all mentions of “the.” Hell, “the” is a stupid word. Articles, shmarticles.

In fact, the new title is current as hell, very SMS txt: Why not just shoot for Fst & 4Eus?
I’m not saying this strategy is dumb. It’s actually […]

Free Online Film Festival: Merchant Ivory Collection

One of the great film sites today is The Auteurs, and one of their superb features is a monthly offering of free online movies from the Criterion Collection. Their current half-dozen freebies are from the catalogue of James Ivory and Ismail Merchant, and I’ve listed them below.
Click on any title to reach The Auteurs’ viewing […]

Meet In the Lobby RSS Feed: Important Info

Please permit me to interrupt regular posts for RSS feed information…
We’ve learned that some RSS feed subscribers may be experiencing problems receiving newer MITL posts in their reader. (We underwent some feed changes earlier this year, and that was probably the culprit.)
If you’re a subscriber, we want to assure you receive all Meet In the Lobby posts. […]

Coming 2010: Sean Penn To Get Smacked in Nuts

UPDATE (06.16.09) Sean Penn has decided to call it quits, possibly for a year. Read all about it here. 
ORIGINAL POST: As you might have heard, MGM and The Farrelly Brothers have added a massively talented dramatic actor to their Three Stooges film: Oscar winner Sean Penn.
Penn will play Larry, meaning he’ll probably get cranked in the nether regions and […]