Movie City News Archive for May, 2012
Jim Paratore, Founder Of TMZ, Was 58
Jim Paratore, Founder Of TMZ, Was 58
Read the full article »Lionsgate Posts Loss
Lionsgate Posts Loss
Read the full article »Netflix Agrees To Delete Data On Ex-Customers
Netflix Agrees To Delete Data On Ex-Customers
Read the full article »Is The Academy Right In Heralding “The Last 70mm Film Festival”?
Is The Academy Right In Heralding “The Last 70mm Film Festival”?
Read the full article »Alien Scholar Expert-Opinions MIB3
Alien Scholar Expert-Opinions MIB3
Read the full article »Magnolia Down For Hunt
Magnolia Down For Hunt
Read the full article »L. A. Sends Love Letter To Rainer Werner Fassbinder
L. A. Sends Love Letter To Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Read the full article »David Simon (And Commenters) On The New Orleans Times-Picayune Cuts And Calls For Paywalls
“Journalism is a profession; it requires careers, and careers require a living wage, and until newspapers recover a revenue stream for their online product, they have no future.” David Simon (And Commenters) On The New Orleans Times-Picayune Cuts And Calls For Paywalls
Read the full article »Trailering Les Miserables
Trailering Les Miserables
Read the full article »Review: Prometheus (Spoiler-Free)
The thing about Prometheus is that it is the first true Science Fiction movie from a major studio in years. i know that a lot of movies are positioned as sci-fi. But watching Prometheus, I felt like science and fiction were pushing me, as an audience member, to think about the ideas being presented in a fairly complex way. This was not, as Alien itself was, a genre film of a different sort with sci-fi elements superimposed on top of it (brilliantly, in that case). This film is about ideas. This film is about whether there is a greater meaning in the tradition of the first Planet of the Apes, early Trek, Soylent Green, Serling, Matheson, Bradbury, and others.
Read the full article » 76 Comments »Wilmington on DVDs. Man on a Ledge; Kill Bill, Volumes One and Two; Run for Cover; The Lawless
Quentin Tarantino’s forte is probably his mastery of tough guy dialogue; in movies like Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction (and, courtesy of Elmore Leonard, in Jackie Brown), he reaches heights of wise guy film noir grandeur.
Read the full article »FIRST! Reviews Of Prometheus
THR/Todd McCarthy’s Spoilered, But Much Less Specific Than Variety’s, FIRST! Prometheus Review
Read the full article »Variety’s Aggressively Spoilered FIRST! Review Of Prometheus: That Is, If You Really Wanted To Know
And – Variety’s Aggressively Spoilered FIRST! Review Of Prometheus: That Is, If You Really Wanted To Know
Read the full article »The Price Got High For A Massage Auctioned By Harvey At Cannes
“I bet Harvey would give a great massage. I think he’s so sexy and smart and he’s very giving. Plus, whatever he does, you know he’s going to do it well.” The Price Got High For A Massage Auctioned By Harvey At Cannes
Read the full article »Mike Nichols On Bringing “Death Of A Salesman” Back To Life
“Maybe we should cut the pirouette with the finger up your butt and just have you say the line. Maybe simpler is better.” Mike Nichols On Bringing “Death Of A Salesman” Back To Life
Read the full article »Blind Songwriter-Guitarist-Singer Of Bluegrass, Folk, Country, Blues And Gospel, Arthel “Doc” Watson, Was 89; Music Appeared In Convoy, Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
“He is single-handedly responsible for the extraordinary increase in acoustic flat-picking and fingerpicking guitar performance. His flat-picking style has no precedent in earlier country music history.” Blind Songwriter-Guitarist-Singer Of Bluegrass, Folk, Country, Blues And Gospel, Arthel “Doc” Watson, Was 89; Music Appeared In Convoy, Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
Read the full article »Stieg Larsson’s British Publisher Looks To Business Without Dragon Tattoo Profit
Stieg Larsson’s British Publisher Looks To Business Without Dragon Tattoo Profit
Read the full article »Relativity Media Reported To Have Raised $250 Million For Expansion Plans
Relativity Media Reported To Have Raised $250 Million For Expansion Plans
Read the full article »AMC DINE-IN THEATRES CONSTRUCTION BEGINS AT AMC MARINA 6
AMC Marina 6 is slated to reopen in November with six Cinema Suites auditoriums Kansas City, Mo. (May 29, 2012) – AMC Theatres® (AMC) announced today that construction on the AMC Dine-In Theatres™ experience has begun at AMC Marina 6 in Marina Del Rey, Calif. The building will be closed during renovations and is slated to reopen in November of…
Read the full article »“Items on the syllabus of adolescent male samizdat used to go like this: Mad magazine at 13, Vonnegut at 15, Salinger at 17, Hunter Thompson at 18, Kerouac at 20. (When you got real big, you read Kundera.)”
“Items on the syllabus of adolescent male samizdat used to go like this: Mad magazine at 13, Vonnegut at 15, Salinger at 17, Hunter Thompson at 18, Kerouac at 20. (When you got real big, you read Kundera.)”
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