Sean Kelly on Movies:
With today's list, I look at all the films that chill and thrill.10. The X Files: I Want to BelieveIt was not the best X-Files film to be made, but it succeeded to reintroducing Mulder and Scully to the masses.9. Vantage PointThe multi-POV plotline made for an interesting film, though I think people that didn't understand w (Read More)
FirstShowing.net:
Oh, how I love living in Los Angeles! It's indie movie theaters like the New Beverly Cinema that make me so happy to live here. The latest filmmaker-driven film festival to take over the New Beverly is Rian Johnson's Festival of Fakery, kicking off on February 18th. The fest starts with a back-to-back double feature of The (Read More)
indieWIRE:
indieWIRE's snapshot of news and views from around the web.Universal Sells Rogue for $150 Million In a deal that signifies further reordering in Hollywood's specialty movie business, the Universal Pictures unit of General Electric completed its sale of Rogue Pictures, a maker and distributor of lower-cost films, to Relativi (Read More)
FirstShowing.net:
Remember that wacky live-action 3-D Cleopatra musical that Steven Soderbergh was putting together? When we first announced it, Catherine Zeta-Jones was going to star as Cleopatra and Hugh Jackman as her lover Marc Antony. Well, with the upcoming Oscars, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and even Guardians of Ga'Hoole, it looks like (Read More)
Defamer:
Four months ago we suggested that Viggo Mortensen had three chances in 2008 to repeat as an Oscar nominee. As the last of those chances expires today, all we can say is, "Maybe next year?" But what happened? There's plenty of finger-pointing to go around, but none of it in Viggo's direction: · Blame Warner Bros.: Pundits we (Read More)
independent film - Google News:
Indie Spirit Awards shift to bigger filmsVariety, CA - 9 hours agoNaturally, the shift that began that year has resulted in a certain amount of overlap with Film Independent's Spirit Awards, designed to recognize the ...'Tis the Oscar Season Movie City NewsSharp turns on road to Oscar Hollywood Reporterall 66 news a (Read More)
Defamer:
The accompanying video really requires no comment beyond a statement of its simple, almost otherworldly concept: Andy Warhol interviews Steven Spielberg. On a hotel bed. Bianca Jagger looks on. And something is swallowed. Anything more likely impugns the riveting, stream-of-consciousness, what-the-fuckery of the whole exerc (Read More)
indieWIRE:
by Peter Knegt (December 30, 2008)EDITOR'S NOTE: This is part of a daily December series that will feature new or previously published interviews and profiles of some of the year's best filmmakers, writers, actors and actresses."As I watch your films, I feel the way the characters are feeling," New York Press film critic Ar (Read More)