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France's First Lady to work for Woody?

OtownRog — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:19:35 -0500

Yup. Model turned French first lady Carla Bruni will take a role in Woody Allen's upcoming set-in-France comedy.

Guy Pearce joins Nic Cage and January Jones for a thriller

OtownRog — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:15:29 -0500

Roger Donaldson (The Bank Job) will direct Hungry Rabbit Jumps, a thriller Variety describes as being about a husband who gets mixed up in underworld goings on after his wife is the victim of a crime. Guy Pearce may play...

Is today it Do or Die Day for Blu-Ray?

OtownRog — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:11:17 -0500

I've been pricing multi-format Blu-Ray DVD players in recent weeks, wondering if I should wait to get the post-holidays discounted online-link capable players that are now running $350 after the holidays, when along comes this take on the state of...

Best Actress? It's Bullock's to lose

OtownRog — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:19:12 -0500

The one thing that always gripes me about the hit-or-miss buzz-builders of Oscar season is this echo chamber tendency, especially early in the "Who'll get nominated" guessing. They aren't "polling" any real voters. The folks at The Envelope, The Gurus...

Florida Film Festival 2010-- Film, sweet Film

OtownRog — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:34:37 -0500

"Film Sweet Film" is the theme, and Down Home Southern hospitality is the ethos of the next Florida film Festival. The 19th FFF comes to the Enzian and environs april 9--ten days of movies and movie-centric events. Who will they...

Movie Review: The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day

OtownRog — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:51:50 -0500

The acting is bad -- bad Irish accents, worse Southern ones, lesser characters plainly played by people related to or friends of the director. Even the shoot-outs seem ten or twelve rehearsals shy of a Wild Bunch. The lighting is...

The Steve Coogan question--Why isn't he a star?

OtownRog — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:18:16 -0500

I was enjoying the funny Brit political satire In the Loop last night -- a lacerating take on how things like wars get started more out of infighting among agencies with bureaucrats jockeying for status, face-time, etc., than just cause,...

A movie 12 years in the making--Linklater's "Boyhood"

OtownRog — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:24:01 -0500

I finished up a chat with Richard Linklater about his adorable and period-perfect Me and Orson Welles by asking him about this epic project, a drama about growing up, that will catch up with a kid and his parents (Ethan...

Courageous--Sherwood Pictures moves from "Fireproof" firefighters to Christian cops

OtownRog — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:16:19 -0500

Here's the plot of the new film from the folks who gave us Facing the Giants and Fireproof, two of the most successful indie films ever, films produced with a Christian message by the preaching writing-producing Kendrick brothers from their...

The Last Station; Mirren, Plummer, McAvoy and Giamatti

OtownRog — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:36:00 -0500

Love the tone of this trailer -- playful, very Me and Orson Welles. Me and Tolstoy?