

Columns By Noah ForrestForrest@moviecitynews.com
Fall Movie Preview Part I
It’s that time once again, boys and girls: good movies are just around the corner. As much as I bemoan the fact that studios seem intent on releasing films seasonally – stinkers in the first few months, blockbusters in the summer, prestige films in the fall – it is nice to know that the films…
Read the full article »Part Nine: Real Men Love Smoke
July 17, 1982 Today, we’re seeing strung together footage of almost what should play as at least half an hour of the movie. Probably more. The big problem is when does the movie begin…what should Annette’s role be… Some scenes that I classified as “mine” especially scenes between Annette and Nick are gone. (Gross Notes:…
Read the full article »Slow and Sure
A quartet of new films failed to topple Tropic Thunder from its seat at the top of the heap of weekend movie going. The psycho-comedy edged out freshman entries The House Bunny and Death Race with an estimated $16.1 million. Bunny ranked second with $14.8 million and the bronze went to the road rage action…
Read the full article »Vantage Point
A marvelously frantic suspense movie about a presidential assassination attempt, Vantage Point,has been issued by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The film has several famous stars in smallish roles, but the hero is a recovering Secret Service agent, played by Dennis Quaid, who may have been called back to duty too soon after defending the president from a…
Read the full article »In Search of a Midnight Kiss: Before Sunrise for the Hipster Set?
I’m a romantic at heart and, because of that, I have always sought out films about falling in love. If I had to make a list of my ten favorite films of all time, Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, taken together, would be on there. The premise of those films is so simple – two strangers…
Read the full article »Weather Report
The Hollywood parody Tropical Thunder took top box office honors with weekend movie goers providing an estimated $25.6 million for its debut. The session also saw a softish $15.3 million bow for the animated Star Wars: The Clone Warsthat ranked third and a more predictable $11.1 million fourth place finish for the thriller Mirrors. The session also a…
Read the full article »Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert
I am such a 3-D junkie that the moment I obtained the Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2-Disc Extended Edition release, Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus Best of Both Worlds Concert, I tore it open with a lustful glee that would not have been equaled had Cyrus herself been sitting next to me on the couch,…
Read the full article »Dirty Harry
Being one of Warner Home Video’s core assets, Don Siegel’s 1971 Clint Eastwood film, Dirty Harry, has long since undergone stereophonication and upgraded image transfers. Warner released the title initially in the beginning days of DVD and then put together a collector’s edition with improved colors and a few supplementary features. Warner has now, however, upgraded the movie…
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Read the full article »Vicky Cristina Barcelona is Vintage Woody
Earlier this year, with the release of Cassandra’s Dream,I wrote a column about how I felt Woody Allen would never be finished despite the fact that people have repeatedly tried to write him off every time he makes a film that isn’t ‘like his older, funnier ones.’ I explained that one of the things I loved about…
Read the full article »On the Dole
The Dark Knight remained top dog in the marketplace with an estimated $25.8 million weekend gross. However, the competition was torrid as the bow of stoner comedy Pineapple Express nipped at its cape with an opening weekend salvo of $22.2 million. Also bowing nationally was the female bonding sequel Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2…
Read the full article »Part Eight: Lesbians, Lindsay & Leather
July 7, 1982 It’s the costumer Dan Moore’s birthday party thrown by the crew. He’s a smart, thoroughly Irish guy, so I buy him some Irish whiskey. He got a graduate degree in literature and did his thesis on Joyce! The people who stumble into the movie business! Also I keep pressing him if one day…
Read the full article »Batman: The Movie
The more time that passes, the more the 1966Batman The Movie begins to seem like a comical masterpiece, or perhaps a masterpiece in a category all of its own. Originally a summertime knock-off of the enormously successful winter replacement first season of the television series starring Adam Westand Burt Ward, the 105-minute feature concocted a serviceable…
Read the full article »Aaron Rose Director of Beautiful Losers

“Then this one day I had this epiphany and I remember exactly the day, I mean not exactly the date, but it was a watershed moment for me that I remember when all of a sudden my vision cleared and I saw that the city I was walking around in was not the city I…
Read the full article »Brad Anderson Director of Transsiberian

“It’s one of the last real remote train journeys lik that on the planet. When I took it back in 1988, that kind of became the inspiration for this movie. And what struck me most of all is that you are basically in one of the most remote places you can get to .. or…
Read the full article »British People in Costumes: Brideshead Revisited and Other Period Pieces
Of all the genres of film – other than musicals – costume dramas are usually the ones thatput me off the most. I find most of them stuffy and the overly mannered way in which they are filmed usually lulls me into a state similar to being half-asleep. Of course, there are a few which…
Read the full article »Mummy Dearest
Pundits predicted that The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor would unseat The Dark Knight as the top ticket seller in the domestic market place this weekend. Tracking studies suggested the third edition of The Mummy franchise would open to between $45 million and $50 million and that the ebony Bat would once again experience…
Read the full article »Preview Week 2008: Planning for The Worst… Hoping For The Best
The summer of 2008 is 17 weeks long. There are 44 films scheduled to be released “wide” this summer, only 3 of which are not from the major studios or their Dependent specialty arms. I count 16 of these releases as “The Big Ones,” meaning that a lot of money has been spent – and…
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