Posted on January 17, 2017 at 8:00 am
“Their Finest” stars Gemma Arterton, Jeremy Irons, Sam Claflin, and Jake Lacy in a story based in the British film industry during WWII. It will be in US theaters in April of 2017.
Posted on January 15, 2017 at 8:00 am
The Shack is a Christian fable about a man devastated by the murder of his child. The best-seller is now a film starring Sam Worthington and Octavia Spencer, coming to theaters March 3, 2017
Posted on January 14, 2017 at 8:00 am
Remember “CHiPS?” The Erik Estrada television series about the California Highway Patrol officers on motorcycles? Well, guess what! Now it’s a movie!
But I have some hope this will be more than another overdone remake of a 1970’s television series because like “Baywatch,” that other reboot of silly law enforcement shows starring pretty people in very revealing outfits, it is a comedy written and directed by Dax Shepard, who also stars with Michael Peña and Kristen Bell. And the trailer looks pretty funny, though very much NSFW.
Posted on January 13, 2017 at 8:00 am
“As You Are,” directed by 23-year old Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, follows three teens — Charlie Heaton (Netflix’s “Stranger Things”), Owen Campbell (HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire”) and Amandla Stenberg (“Hunger Games”), who form a bond that is tested and maybe untethered while living in a small town.
The film is being released in theaters on February 24, 2017 in New York at the Village East Cinema with more cities to follow.
Posted on January 11, 2017 at 3:44 pm
Anyone who loves movies — and anyone who enjoys a love story — will have a wonderful time at “Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story.” It’s a love story in two sense of the word. It is the story of a deeply connected marriage of 60 years and it is the story of a love for the world of film.
You know the scene in “The Birds” with Tippi Hedren in the phone booth? And the one where all the birds are ominously perched at the playground? The movie was directed by Alfred Hitchcock, but it was Harold Michelson, the storyboard artist, who imagined the way those scenes would look. He also came up with the idea for one of the most iconic shots in film history, this one:
His wife Lillian headed up research for several different studios. When the “Scarface” producers needed to know what a drug kingpin’s home looked like, they came to her. When the “Fiddler on the Roof” team needed to know what shtetl girls wore for underwear, they came to her. And she always found out.
The story of how they met and fell in love is worth a movie of its own. While they almost never received screen credit for their contributions, Dreamworks did pay tribute to their decades of essential work in “Shrek.” These characters are named Harold and Lillian in their honor.
