Jeff, Who Lives at Home — The Duplass Brothers’ slacker character study was supposed to open last week, unscreened for critics. It was postponed at the last minute — and still hasn’t been shown to the local press. We’re not saying we know for sure that you’ll be asked to show proof of federal...
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Reposting this as a reminder: On March 22nd, Cinemark theaters will be screening The Godafather for one day only to commemorate its 40th (!) anniversary. Orlando is in luck, because the Cinemark at Festival Bay will be taking part in the screenings with two showings, one at 2pm and one at 7pm. It’s such...
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The Southeast Museum of Photography comes correct with a special screening of this 1974 Jacques Rivette mindfuck.
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Here is a reminder for you: Turner Classic Movies is presenting Casablanca this time, for it’s 70th anniversary, pipping the screening of The Godfather by one day, on Wednesday, March 21st at 7pm at various theaters around the country, including five in the Orlando area. They are: AMC Altamonte Mall 18 AMC AMC Pleasure Island 24 AMC AMC Universal Cineplex...
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So, it’s the day after Amateur Night… I mean, St. Patrick’s day. It’s holiday I stopped celebrating somewhere in my early-20s because I’m not sure how I got home alive a few years in a row, catching rides home with people that were completely blitzed. Hall Road is just full of wonderful, winding blind...
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“Serious” horror fans can stay up for days bemoaning the devastation the Twilight phenomenon has wreaked on vampire fiction. But if you ask me, the death knell of that genre was wrung a lot earlier: When Otto the bus driver temporarily moved in with the Simpsons and inquired if their library included anything “written...
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It’s been a while, eh? It all started out downhill for Bringing Out the Dead, Martin Scorsese’s film about an insomniac paramedic suffering through an existential crisis, starring Nicolas Cage, and written by Paul Schrader. It was Schrader’s involvement that seemed to doom it from the very get go, leaving it wide open to...
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21 Jump Street — With an Oscar nomination under his now-tightened belt, Jonah Hill is emboldened to position himself as the latter-day Peter DeLuise in this “next generation” outgrowth of the ’80s TV series. The idea of Channing Tatum as the 21st century Johnny Depp is even more dubious, especially with Depp himself around...
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So three new movies opened this week: the $250m CGI epic, a hi-concept Eddie Murphy vehicle, and a Sundance darling horror flick starring current It Girl, Elizabeth Olsen. Yet the biggest splash was a cable movie that told a story we pretty much new already. HBO aired their Sarah Palin biopic last night, and,...
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You won’t hear me raising any objections to the accepted wisdom that Matthew Weiner is one principled artist. In fact, I suspect the world may not know the true extent of it. Here’s an example. An actress I know had a recurring, nonspeaking role as a secretary on Mad Men back in the Sterling...
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