Exclusive: ‘Two Lovers’ Poster Premiere
Posted on December 19, 2008 - Filed Under Drama | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Drama, Romance, Fandom, Movie Marketing, Images, Posters
Cinematical has received this exclusive poster for Two Lovers, starring Joaquin Phoenix (in his final movie role?), Gwyneth Paltrow and Vinessa Shaw. Directed by James Gray (We Own the Night), Two Lovers is a Brooklyn-set romantic drama that follows a troubled man who returns to his childhood […]
Read More..>>Review: Gran Torino
Posted on December 19, 2008 - Filed Under Drama | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Drama, New Releases, Theatrical Reviews
Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) is a son of a bitch, and a particularly racist one at that. Having just endured his wife’s funeral, Walt wants only to scowl and growl in solitude, left alone to simmer and seethe over past Korean War traumas and at the proliferation of […]
Read More..>>Review: The Reader
Posted on December 19, 2008 - Filed Under Drama | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Drama, Independent, Theatrical Reviews, The Weinstein Co.
Opening in limited release this week with a wider release planned for January, The Reader has “prestigious arthouse drama” written all over it. It’s an adaptation of a critically acclaimed German novel by Bernhard Schlink, but translated into English for wider appeal, and features a big dramatic […]
Read More..>>Gore Verbinski Jumps Into the World of Second Life
Posted on December 19, 2008 - Filed Under Drama | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Drama, Deals, Scripts
When he’s not busy with killer tadpoles wreaking havoc on the population, it looks like Gore Verbinski is going to chill out with some RPG action. Variety reports that Universal and Verbinski are teaming up to bring a 2007 Wall Street article about online role-playing to the big screen. Unlike Ben […]
Review: Doubt
Posted on December 19, 2008 - Filed Under Drama | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Drama, New Releases, Theatrical Reviews, New in Theaters, Miramax, Religious
As many movie fans know by now, the prologue to last summer’s Tropic Thunder features some brilliant spoof trailers, including one for a phony film called Satan’s Alley (which won the “coveted Crying Monkey Award at the Beijing Film Festival”). Better seen than described, […]
Read More..>>Review: Wendy and Lucy
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Filed under: Drama, Independent, New Releases, Theatrical Reviews
(We’re reposting our Wendy and Lucy review to coincide with the film’s theatrical release)
By: Kim Voynar
Director Kelly Reichardt’s much-anticipated follow-up to her critically acclaimed 2006 fest circuit hit, Old Joy, continues to show Reichardt’s remarkable gift for classically simple, deeply engaging storytelling. Wendy and Lucy is the story […]
Read More..>>The Rocchi Review — With Devin Faraci of CHUD.com
Posted on December 19, 2008 - Filed Under Drama | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Awards, Podcasts, Interviews, Comic/Superhero/Geek, The Rocchi Review: Online Film Community Podcast
What’s going on with Summit Entertainment pulling Catherine Hardwicke off of the Twilight films? And who should they get to replace her? Does The Day the Earth Stood Still work as ‘hard” science fiction, or is it just hard […]
Read More..>>Review: Che
Posted on December 19, 2008 - Filed Under Drama | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Drama, Foreign Language, New Releases, Theatrical Reviews
(We’re reposting our review of Che from the Cannes Film Festival to coincide with the film’s theatrical release)By: James Rocchi
Plenty of people are going to be talking about Steven Soderbergh’s Che Guevara biographical films — The Argentine and Guerrilla, screened at Cannes tonight as one presentation simply […]
Review: The Wrestler
Posted on December 19, 2008 - Filed Under Drama | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Drama, Sports, Awards, Casting, Theatrical Reviews, Festival Reports, Celebrities and Controversy, Fox Searchlight, Oscar Watch, Toronto International Film Festival, Venice Film Festival
(We’re reposting our review of The Wrestler form the Toronto International Film Festival to coincide with the film’s theatrical release.)
By James Rocchi
After winning top honors at the Venice Film Festival, Darren Aronofsky’s […]
Indie Spotlight: New Releases for Dec. 12
Posted on December 19, 2008 - Filed Under Drama | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Drama, Foreign Language, Gay & Lesbian, Horror, Independent, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, New Releases, Columns, Cinematical Indie, Indie Spotlight
Not that it’s any of my business, but are your halls decked? Is your gay apparel donned? Good! Then you have time to go to the movies, and the Indie Spotlight is here to tell you […]