Movie City News Archive for March, 2017
‘The Boss Baby is the rancid diaper of animated movies”
‘The Boss Baby is the rancid diaper of animated movies”
Read the full article »Can MoviePass Figure Out How To Help Avid Manhattan Moviegoers?
Can MoviePass Figure Out How To Help Avid Manhattan Moviegoers?
Read the full article »The DVD Wrapup: 20th Century Women, Silence, Just a Sigh, Art Bastard, Blow-Up, MST3K and more
Because she doesn’t feel confident in her ability to raise a teenage son in such an environment, Dorothea entrusts the finer points to Abbie and Julie. Jamie probably would be better served if he apprenticed under William, but Dorothea sees him as someone who can’t be completely trusted around women. (Mills says he was raised in much the same way by his sister and other women in his mom’s orbit.) Neither has she shaken off the residue of growing into adulthood during the Eisenhower era, when parents were expected to be arbiters of their kids’ behavior. With the age of it-takes-a-village parenthood looming on the horizon, Dorothea needs as much help as Jamie. Although his expository narration occasionally eliminates the element of surprise, watching Bening negotiate the shoals of Dorothea’s life can be thrilling.
Read the full article »Bilge Ebiri Goes Inside Greenwich Village’s Revamped Quad Cinema
Bilge Ebiri Goes Inside Greenwich Village’s Revamped Quad Cinema As A Sign Of New York City’s Moviehouse Peak
Read the full article »Joe Swanberg On Collaboration And Win It All
Joe Swanberg On Collaboration And Win It All
Read the full article »Stephen Garrett On How To Trailer A Movie Without Destroying Its Surprises
Stephen Garrett On How To Trailer A Movie Without Destroying Its Surprises
Read the full article »A List Of The 265 Members Of Congress Who Ended Internet Browsing Privacy And How Much Each Was Paid
A List Of The 265 Members Of Congress Who Ended Internet Browsing Privacy And How Much Each Was Paid
Read the full article »Academy Keeps PriceWaterhouse
Academy Retains PwC
Read the full article »“How the Republicans Sold Your Privacy to Internet Providers”
“How the Republicans Sold Your Privacy To Internet Providers”
Read the full article »Purists may not want to hear it, but she’s ideal at the conceptual side of the role. The unusual disconnect between Johansson’s intelligence and her coolly dispassionate looks has been exploited before, most brilliantly in Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin. Here she is both ghost and shell – a pair of soulful eyes, welling with memory and confusion, stranded inside a gorgeously supple action figure.
“Purists may not want to hear it, but Johansson’s ideal at the conceptual side of the role. The unusual disconnect between her intelligence and her coolly dispassionate looks has been exploited before, most brilliantly in Under the Skin. Here she is both ghost and shell – a pair of soulful eyes, welling with memory and confusion,…
Read the full article »An Excerpt From Stephen Galloway’s Sherry Lansing Tell-Some
An Excerpt From Stephen Galloway‘s Sherry Lansing Tell-Some, On The Trials And Tribulations Of Fatal Attraction
Read the full article »Smashing Wide-Release Theatrical Windows: Murder or Suicide?
The theatrical business is not dying. There are no actual stats that suggest it is.
Perhaps distributors are not foolishly chasing new revenue, but are consciously aware that sipping the Kool-Aid may lead to the death of a significant portion of this industry. Maybe they just want to be in a different business.
Read the full article » 5 Comments »Trump Could (And Might) Kill AT&TTimeWarner, Trumpologist Michael Wolff Writes
Trump Could (And Might) Kill AT&TTimeWarner, Trumpologist Michael Wolff Writes
Read the full article »“How We Created Comic Sans”
“How We Created Comic Sans”
Read the full article »Michael Peña: H’wd Unicorn
Michael Peña: H’wd Unicorn
Read the full article »NATO’s John Fithian Speaks On Free Trade
“Exhibitors around the world lose billions of dollars each year to movie theft, and the losses would be much greater if not for a coordinated war on piracy.” NATO’s John Fithian Speaks On Free Trade
Read the full article »“How I Let Disney Track My Every Move”
“How I Let Disney Track My Every Move”
Read the full article »Michelle Pfeiffer Tells Darren Aronofsky It Was Time To Return
Michelle Pfeiffer Tells Darren Aronofsky It Was Time To Return
Read the full article »A Case For China Film Gossip Making “TMZ Look Like The NY Review Of Books”
A Case For China Film Gossip Making “TMZ Look Like The NY Review Of Books”
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