Posted on October 3, 2017 at 8:00 am
I love the “Anatomy of a Scene” series at the New York Times, where filmmakers explain what went into creating a moment in a movie. Here, Valerie Dayton and Jonathan Faris talk about something most filmgoers never consciously notice, the “soundscape” and how that affects our sense of what is happening. I was very intrigued …
Posted on October 3, 2017 at 1:59 am
A-| Lowest Recommended Age: | Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated R for violence, some sexuality, nudity and language |
| Profanity: | Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Nudity, sexual situation, prostitutes |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drinking, smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Extended and explicit peril and violence, characters injured and killed, |
| Date Released to Theaters: | October 6, 2017 |
I’ve got a bit of a conundrum here. As has been widely reported, the filmmakers have asked the critics to avoid spoilers (no problem, we are always careful about that), but they have done so with a very specific list of topics/characters/developments they don’t want us to reveal, so exhaustive that it leaves us with …
Posted on October 2, 2017 at 5:43 pm
Robert Redford narrates this gorgeous BBC documentary about our planet, in theaters October 6.
Posted on October 1, 2017 at 4:55 pm
I’m a fan of Doug Liman, director of four “Bourne” movies, “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” and the neglected gem “Edge of Tomorrow.” I really enjoyed his list of five favorite movies for Rotten Tomatoes (I love “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?” too) and his fondness for flawed heroes. Here are his comments on making a …
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Posted on October 1, 2017 at 2:51 pm
Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland star in “The Leisure Seeker,” based on the novel by Michael Zadoorian about an elderly couple, she with cancer, he with Alzheimer’s, who go on one last great adventure. It’s coming to theaters in 2018.
