Daily Archives: May 25, 2013

Movie Preview: “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints” is a “Badlands” for our times

Rooney Mara, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Keith Carradine, a doomed outlaw romance, love triangle (with a cop being the third wheel) and Great Plains tragedy, IFC picked this Sundance picture up.

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Memorial Day Box Office: “Fast & Furious” helps set record, “Hangover” hangs on

“What’s that smell?” Vin Diesel seems to be asking with that look. “Smells like MONEY.” “Fast & Furious 6” has set itself up to earn $110 million this weekend, based on late Thursday all-day-and-night Friday numbers. Unless audiences bail on … Continue reading

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Zach Braff’s Kickstarter campaign ends –$3.1 million richer

He wanted to get $2 million from fans and other backers to finally make a follow-up to his sensitive indie hit “Garden State.” But when Zach “Scrubs” Braff used the crowd-funding site Kickstarter to do finance “Wish I Was Here,” … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: “Walking with Dinosaurs” has a whiff of “Land Before Time” about it

Here’s the movie all the dino-mad kids will want to see this December. “Walking with Dinosaurs” looks as if it’s got that quest tale trek-to-safety plot of the “Land Before Time” cartoons of the ’80s and ’90s, re-used in the … Continue reading

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