Roger Ebert’s annual festival of overlooked films, held in his hometown of Champaign-Urbana, Illinois at the Virginia Theatre, began yesterday and continues all weekend. For those of us unable to make the pilgrimage to Ebertfest, Mr. Ebert and company are kind enough to provide a live-stream of all the Q&As (embedded above). Given that the […]
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It’s a big day for promotional photos. Whether Summit originally planned to put out these new stills from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 today or decided they’d try to replicate the buzz created by those for Django Unchained (currently Critic Speak’s biggest story) is anyone’s guess. But if you need your Bella and Edward
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An old friend posted this to his Facebook wall today, and while it’s hard to condone vandalism, I can’t help but be impressed by the inventiveness of this new venue for reviewing movies. The only problem is that the prospective viewer has already rented the disc, thereby making a recommendation useless. But with a movie
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Those wondering when they’d get a chance to see Spike Lee’s Red Hook Summer, which debuted in January at the Sundance Film Festival to mixed reviews and no distribution deal, finally have their answer. Or maybe not, because the film will only bow in the top 30 markets, barring theatrical viewing for most living in
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Sorry for the one day delay on this column, folks — due to unforeseen circumstances, I was without a computer on Tuesday. But damn, did Frazier hold down the news updates well or what? Make sure to thumb through all of his terrific recent posts if you haven’t already. If you’re going to pick up
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At first, it was hard to imagine what the director of Requiem for a Dream and Black Swan might make of an oft-told story from the Old Testament, but now that Gladiator star Russell Crowe has committed to the title role of Noah, the idea is easier to picture. Then again, this is a Darren Aronofsky film, so such
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As I wrote about earlier this week, I’m generally not big on watching clips and trailers for upcoming movies when I’m already sold on seeing them, so I’m personally skipping this one. But given how hungry our visitors seem to be for Avengers material, based on Google Analytics, I feel a duty to pass this “Iron Man
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As Friday’s box office indicated it would be, this weekend was all about relationship movies — the comedy Think Like a Man coming in at a big #1 and the drama The Lucky One a solid #2. Interestingly, the former held up over Saturday and its projected Sunday much better than the latter (at least by studio
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The general rule in documentarian Morgan Spurlock’s career thus far has been that the trailers are much better then the movies themselves. That’s because Spurlock is a great concept guy, but not a great filmmaker. When the movies are reduced to mere two-minute tag-lines–“I’m going to eat McDonalds for every meal for a month and
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Just as I predicted in this weekend’s Box Office Beat, Think Like a Man, the African-American targeted rom-com based on Steve Harvey’s bestselling self-help book, was a surprise #1, exceeding almost everybody’s expectations (including the studio’s). What even I failed to foresee, however, is that the film would amass over $12 million on opening day
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