Preview, It’s Keener vs. Tripplehorn in a true story battle over a “Little Pink House”

This doesn’t have a lot of oomph to it, very “Lifetime Original Movie” looking. A “film festival” movie for the right film festival.

But the true story of homeowners facing down Pfizer, Big Development and its lapdogs in a state legislature seems timely. And Catherine Keener and Jeannie Tripplehorn are well-paired as antagonists.

“Little Pink House” is headed for limited release later in April.

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Cinematic business opportunity in a Caribbean paradise

Yes, there are plenty of Cinemas in Willemstad, Curacao. But this art deco delight screams out for restoration, conversion to an art cinema/performing arts venue. Gorgeous ruin. Maybe I should GoFundMe this.IMG_20180408_190539323

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Preview, “The Neighbor” lets William Fichtner play the good guy in a thriller…for a change

He’s the designated “wise old car guy who always wins” winner in the American version of “Top Gear,” which if nothing else gives the veteran character actor name recognition.

Here, William Fichtner is the guy in a dead marriage who wonders about the young couple next door, the beautiful young woman he’s sure is being abused.

He is “The Neighbor.” The horror of it all…Early summer limited release?

 

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Box Office: “Quiet Place” makes noise, “Blockers” chasing “Ready Player One,” “Chappaquiddick” and “Miracle Season” bomb

box1A huge horror with a touch of sci Fi opening for “Quiet Place,” a genre pic built around top flight acting couple Emily Blunt and John Krasinski is headed for a $46 million opening thanks to a $19 million Friday, per Box Office Mojo.

“Blockers” is right around $21 million, pretty much where “Ready Player One” looks to end up its second weekend.

“Tyler Perry’s Acrimony” is dropping off @60 percent.

Endless flogging of the Kennedy scandal movie “Chappaquiddick” by conservative media is barely getting that one in the top ten. Maybe $5 million.

“A Miracle Season” didn’t even manage that. Not quite faith based enough to cash in on that “I Can Only Imagine” money.

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Preview, Analeigh Tipton should never go to “the villa” in “Compulsion”

Tipton, of “Warm Bodies” and “Warm Bodies” stars as the unwitting invited guest of a horrific cult in this 2016 thriller, about an erotic novelist who falls for the wrong European guy and goes with him to this “villa” that looks like a castle and is plainly full of freaks.

“Compulsion” is set for a late spring limited release in the US.

 

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Preview, Punk Meets Aliens and Elle Fanning in 1970s London in “How to Talk to Girls at Parties”

Yeah, this is Neil Gaiman. Based on his short story. John Cameron Mitchell of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” directed it. And it’s got Nicole Kidman in it.

“Earth Girls are Easy” meets uh, “High Fidelity” and oh, “Under the Skin?”

“How to Talk to Girls at Parties” opens in May.

 

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Oddly…

In the Dutch Caribbean, this word has nothing to do with the fellow who runs Hollywood-Elsewhere.IMG_20180406_113215121.jpg

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Preview, “Eighth Grade” takes a girl through the last weeks of the most awkward year ever

Acne, hormones, weight issues, hormones, ungainliness, more hormones.

Eighth grade sucks. Sucked. The jump from elementary school to middle junior high is a traumatic chasm to leap.

And that’s what writer-director Bo Burnham (“The Big Sick”) fixates on for this new dramedy, starring Elsie Fisher as the traumatized teen and Josh Hamilton as her hapless single dad.

“Eighth Grade” being an A24 release, expect edge and cringe-worthy comedy from this July release.

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Movie Nation chills in Curacao

IMG_20180405_182905903Taking a few days to drink Blue Coladas and snorkel in between movies in sunny Curacao. I will have to get to “A Quiet Place” and “Chappaquiddick” next week.1522974151165_IMG-6957

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Preview, Martin Freeman finds ugly surprises onboard in “Cargo”

Zombies man, zombies. In Australia. An infected dad trying to get his child to safety before he starts stumbling about looking for brains in this Australian thriller.

“Cargo” looks promising, a hint of “Maggie” about it, accepting the inevitable, struggling to make the world right for your child.

 

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