Monthly Archives: April 2019

Preview: Hooking up with your daughter’s girlfriend? Kind of a “Funny Story”

Matthew Glave and Emily Bett (different billing on the poster and IMDb, “Emily Bett Rickards”) are the stars of this May 24 release (VOD, limited theatrical), which may explain why Blue Fox has it and it’s going to those platforms … Continue reading

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Frost & Pegg’s production company lands “Rivers of London”

Simon Pegg & Nick Frost’s Stolen pop Picture To Adapt Ben Aaronovitch’s Epic Fantasy Drama ‘Rivers of London’, report via Deadline.com. https://t.co/GglHJqBTpj https://t.co/Th91c8gKgk https://twitter.com/DEADLINE/status/1122817818947244032?s=17

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Movie Review: Sad teen wishes he could “Just Say Goodbye”

  A six year-old boy comes home, drops his books, fetches a glass of milk and a drawing he did and calls for his mother. He finds her, in bed, empty bottles of pills littering the night stand. He puts … Continue reading

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Preview –Capturing New York, one frame at a time — “Martha: A Picture Story”

The only photographers to ever merit documentaries being made about them are the ones who photograph New York. So if you’re in say, Cheraw, S.C. (a vivid, colorful, poor and forgotten town I pass through on the way to visit … Continue reading

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AMC keeps upping the number of theaters showing “Endgame” around the clock

Earlier this week, pre release, AMC said four theaters in the chain would stay open all through the night this weekend, based on presale demand. Now that’s up to 17. From the LATimes https://t.co/jlLao6wqy0 https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1122410119671820288?s=17

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‘Avengers: Endgame’ Set for Global Domination, and a $345 million US debut

Wow. A three hour long comic book movie is baron of the box office. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4506&p=.htm

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Preview: “MEN IN BLACK: INTERNATIONAL” trailer 2

Still not that enthused about this. The director is key. Hard to replace the leads. Impossible to replace Barry Sonnenfeld. MEN IN BLACK: INTERNATIONAL – Official Trailer #2: https://youtu.be/F3lJwV7ZIIk

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Movie Review: A Young Woman Searches for her Family History in an empire at “Sunset”

“Sunset” is a static exercise in cinema in motion, a dogmatic defense of consistency in point of view. So even though every frame in László Nemes intimate period piece is a misty postcard to memory, even though there are incidents … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Jessica Rothe shines — as usual — in “Tater Tot & Patton”

She had a choice — “Rehab, or my sister’s farm!” That’s what put Andie in South Dakota, a turbo-prop airport her last connection to what this Angelino coed might have seen as “the civilized world.” She lets Mom know she … Continue reading

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“Shaft” and “Rosewood” director John Singleton in coma after stroke

Hollywood Reporter (@THR) Tweeted: Director #JohnSingleton in coma following “major stroke” https://t.co/hE3H5v0jjd https://t.co/hP5dFitKGo https://twitter.com/THR/status/1121513297491243008?s=17

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