Movie City News Archive for July, 2010
Details Linked About Stieg Larsson’s Unfinished, Likely Never-To-Be-Completed Fourth Lisbeth Salander Tome: The Girl Who Would Be Canuck
Details Linked About Stieg Larsson’s Unfinished, Likely Never-To-Be-Completed Fourth Lisbeth Salander Tome: The Girl Who Would Be Canuck
Read the full article »Zeitchick Sez He’s No Reviewer, Then Dismisses Inception At Length
“Murky and flat… commands a lot of admiration but doesn’t produce a commensurate level of enjoyment… cinematic Calamine lotion amid a swarm of mosquitoes.” Zeitchick Sez He’s No Reviewer, Then Dismisses Inception At Length
Read the full article »Music Labels Aroused By Use Of Their Songs On Porn Sites
Music Labels Aroused By Use Of Their Songs On Porn Sites
Read the full article »“This country can only function with an independent media with access to what the government is doing. How is anybody to know what’s going on, if the media doesn’t have access to the story?”
“This country can only function with an independent media with access to what the government is doing. How is anybody to know what’s going on, if the media doesn’t have access to the story?” NPR On The Suspension Of The Press In BP Gulf Oilspill Coverage Plus – PBS’ “5 Digital PR Lessons From BP’s…
Read the full article »“Harvey Pekar’s life was not an open book. It was an open comic book.” The Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Obit And – Chef Ruhlman Says Goodbye To Fellow Clevelander
“Harvey Pekar’s life was not an open book. It was an open comic book.” The Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Obit And – Chef Ruhlman Says Goodbye To Fellow Clevelander
Read the full article »Annoying, Fustian Washington Post “Columnist” Richard Cohen Salutes Switzerland On “Freeing” Roman Polanski
“There is no doubt that Polanski did what he did, which is have sex with a 13-year-old after plying her with booze. There is no doubt also that after all these years there is something stale about the case, not to mention a ‘victim’ who has long ago forgiven her assailant and dearly wishes the…
Read the full article »An Open Letter To Maureen Dowd About Her NYT Audition Piece To Write Next Sex And The City Instalment
An Open Letter To Maureen Dowd About Her NYT Audition Piece To Write Next Sex And The City Instalment
Read the full article »Latest LA Times Turf-Encroaching Ad Found Despicable By News Staff
Latest LA Times Turf-Encroaching Ad Found Despicable By News Staff
Read the full article »Naftali Tuli Kupferberg, “Bohemian And Fug,” 86, “World’s Oldest Rock Star”
Naftali Tuli Kupferberg, “Bohemian And Fug,” 86, “World’s Oldest Rock Star” With – Tuli’s 175 Videos On YouTube, Including Recent “Perverbs” With – “CIA Man,” His Great, Ribald Song Under End Credits Of Burn After Reading (“F—ing Amen”) And – 129 Of His 1,001 Ways To Beat The Draft
Read the full article »Gary Dretzka Digital Nation: Kisses
As the title of Lance Daly’s sweet coming-of-age dramedy implies, lips meet lips in Kisses. If for no other reason than those lips are on the faces of characters 13 and 11 years old, the embraces are few, but memorable. Revealing anything more about the tenor, timing or taste of those kisses would require a…
Read the full article »MICHAEL MOORE ANNOUNCES 2010 TRAVERSE CITY FILM FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
Two Big Opening Night Films — Focus Features’ “The Kids Are All Right” and The Weinstein Co.’s “Nowhere Boy” to Kick Off Festival – TRAVERSE CITY, MI – Traverse City Film Festival founder Michael Moore has announced the line-up for the 2010 edition of the festival, now in its 6th record-breaking year. Moore, the Academy…
Read the full article »ROBERT PATTINSON SHORT MOVIE SET FOR GLOBAL iTUNES DEBUT
PATTINSON SHORT MOVIE SET FOR GLOBAL iTUNES DEBUT LONDON, UK – Shorts International released the short movie The Summer House featuring The Twilight Saga: Eclipse star Robert Pattinson on July 13. The film is available to download from iTunes Movie Stores in the US, Canada, UK, France, Ireland and Germany. It is Northern France and…
Read the full article »'Brooklyn's Finest' Tops Weekly Blockbuster(R) Hit List of Top 10 Renting DVDs
DALLAS, July 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Topping the BLOCKBUSTER® (BLOKA, BLOKB) Hit List of “Top 10 Renting DVD Titles” for the week ending July 11, 2010 is “Brooklyn’s Finest.” An American crime film starring Golden Globe® winner Richard Gere, Oscar® nominees Don Cheadle and Ethan Hawke, and Wesley Snipes, Brooklyn’s Finest follows three New York police…
Read the full article »ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE AND LEVI’S® ANNOUNCE “WE ARE ALL WORKERS” 2010 ROLLING ROADSHOW TOUR
ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE AND THE LEVI’S® BRAND ANNOUNCE “WE ARE ALL WORKERS”- THE 2010 ROLLING ROADSHOW TOUR Nine Nationwide Events Provide Moviegoers the Most Unique Cinema Experience in the World SAN FRANCISCO, CA & AUSTIN, TX, July 14, 2010 – The Alamo Drafthouse and the Levi’s® brand present the 2010 Rolling Roadshow, a nationwide tour of…
Read the full article »HBO ORDERS NEW DRAMA SERIES LUCK, STARRING DUSTIN HOFFMAN
For Immediate Release LUCK – A David Milch And Michael Mann Collaboration LOS ANGELES, July 14, 2010 – HBO has picked up the new drama series LUCK, it was announced today by Michael Lombardo, president, HBO Programming. LUCK is a provocative look at horse racing – the owners, gamblers, jockeys and diverse gaming industry players….
Read the full article »Magnolia Pictures Takes World Rights to I’M STILL HERE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, July 14, 2010 Magnolia Pictures Takes World Rights to I’M STILL HERE New York – July 14, 2010 – The Wagner/Cuban Companies’ Magnolia Pictures announced today that it has acquired world rights to Oscar-nominee Casey Affleck’s directorial debut, I’M STILL HERE, a striking portrayal of a tumultuous year in the life…
Read the full article »Wilmington on DVDs: Terribly Happy, Ride with the Devil, Chloe, Film Noir Classic Collection Vol. 5, The Bounty Hunter … and more
PICK OF THE WEEK: NEW Terribly Happy (Three Stars) Denmark; Henrik Ruben Genz, 2008 (Oscilloscope) A troubled cop with a dark secret named Robert Hansen (Jakob Cedergren) travels from Copenhagen to a small Danish town, where the citizens at the local bar tend to be sarcastic and vaguely menacing and the local drunken doctor, Zerleng…
Read the full article »The DVD Wrap by Gary Dretzka: Greenberg, The Bounty Hunter, Chloe, Our Family Wedding, The Only Son/There was a Father, Diary of a Nymphomaniac and more …
Greenberg: Blu-ray Movie critics may be endangered lot, but they do serve a purpose. Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg — a comedy so dark, it borders on tragedy – provides an excellent case in point. I wonder how many fans of Ben Stiller, whose movies typically don’t need the approval of newspaper pundits to be successful, braved…
Read the full article » 1 Comment »“As an old prostitute once wearily complained at the end of a long shift, it’s not the work, it’s the stairs.” Why Watch Theater On A Movie Screen?
“As an old prostitute once wearily complained at the end of a long shift, it’s not the work, it’s the stairs.” Why Watch Theater On A Movie Screen?
Read the full article »A Close Reading Of The Loose Ends Of Night Moves And Harry Moseby As A Knight In Distress
A Close Reading Of The Loose Ends Of Night Moves And Harry Moseby As A Knight In Distress
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