When TCM runs its tribute to Academy Award®-winning actor Sophia Loren on April 21st, it will lead off with Loren’s most recent film, Human Voice – a US television premiere. The film stars Loren as a woman ‘in her twilight years, who rides the emotional roller coaster of her last telephone conversation with the man she […]
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CinemaCon 2015 Preview – 10 Things to Look Forward To!
This weekend your fearless leader is making the annual sojourn to Vegas. I’m flying a red eye on Frontier Air – it’s going to be fine, it’s going to be fine. If I say it enough I’ll believe it. It’s going to be fine…. Who am I kidding; Frontier Air sucks monkey balls. Only the […]
Disney Joins Spielberg’s The BFG!
Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The BFG has a new participant. Disney has joined the project as a co-producer and co-financier. The film’s cast has also expanded to include Bill Hader, Jemaine Clement, Rebecca Hall, Penelope Wilton and others. The BFG is Spielbverg’s first Disney-branded film as a director and is scheduled for a July 1, 2016 release. […]
Oscars® Dates Set Through 2018!
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has set dates for The Academy Awards for the next three years: The Academy Awards® will air live on ABC on Oscar Sunday, February 28, 2016, February 26, 2017, and March 4, 2018, respectively. Also released today were the key dates for the 88th Academy Awards in […]
How Movies Really Get Made, Everything You Wanted To Know But Were Afraid to Ask!
When people think about how the movies that they watch are made, they often focus on the large studios. They may not realize that a large number of films are actually the creation of smaller production companies that are subsidiaries of the parent studio or independent companies that are under contract to the studios that […]
Movie Review: Furious 7 Goes Out on a High Note and Makes Michelle Cry Like a Baby!
Let me start this review as though I’m at an AA meeting. Hello, my name is Michelle and I’ve never saw the first four Fast and Furious movies. Welcome Michelle, you are in a safe place… With that out of the way I say “Franchise,” I define it as from Fast Five onward…. Ok? Furious […]
Alamo Drafthouse Celebrates Furious 7, April 4!
If you are looking to see Furious 7 this weekend. The place to be is The Alamo Drafthouse in Ashburn, Va. The theater is launching an effort to raise funds for Paul Walker’s charitable organization Reach Out WorldWide Foundation and will be holding contests and prizes throughout the run of the movie. The event is going […]
Jurassic Park’s Appeal is not set for Extinction
There are a lot of great movies out there. But there are only a handful that have been able to capture the imagination of audiences for generation after generation. Parents wait impatiently for the day when their kids are old enough to enjoy classics like Mary Poppins or The Sound of Music. And, in some […]
Teaser Poster: Hotel Transylvania 2!
In Hotel Transylvania 2, Grandpa Vlad comes to visit – and he’s very old school! Sony has just released the teaser poster for the movie. Check it out after the jump. Hotel Transylvania 2 opens on September 25th.
AFI Silver Theatre to host Noah Baumbach Retrospective
AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, MD will be holding a special Noah Baumbach retrospective March 22-24 in advance of the opening of his newest film, WHILE WE’RE YOUNG, which opens in DC theaters on Friday, April 3. Noah Baumbach has been a leading voice in indie film for two decades. AFI is presenting a […]
Miracle Trailer: Paper Towns!
‘The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. My miracle was I wound living across the street from Margo Roth Spiegelman.’ So opens the trailer for Paper Towns, the movie based on John Green’s (The Fault In Our Stars) novel of the same name. The speaker, Quentin, details his life of pining for the gorgeous […]