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Movie talk:
Pick of the Week:
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The Great Gatsby (PG-13)
Genre: Drama
Director: Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge!)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Tobey Maguire, Joel Edgerton, Elizabeth Debicki, Isla Fisher
The Story: Film version of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. The Lowdown: A big, daring, audacious interpretation of the novel that brings it to life in ways you probably never dreamed possible. It's every inch a Baz Luhrmann film, so that will probably tell you a lot. You may not like it, but I'm calling it a must-see. Truly visionary filmmaking is so rare.
Movie Reviews:
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Gimme the Loot (NR)
Genre: Drama
Director: Adam Leon
Starring: Tashiana Washington, Ty Hickson, Meeko, Zoë Lescaze
The Story: Two small-time graffiti artists concoct a plan to tag the large, mechanized apple at the Mets’ Citi Field, but must scrounge up $500 to make it happen. The Lowdown: A small, natural-feeling indie flick with a ton of heart. -
No (R)
Genre: Historical Drama
Director: Pablo Larraín (Post Mortem)
Starring: Gael García Bernal, Alfredo Castro, Luis Gnecco, Néstor Cantillana, Antonia Zegers
The Story: Fact-based drama about the campaign to overthrow Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet at the ballot box — and the marketing campaign that made it happen. The Lowdown: Funny, suspenseful, compelling entertainment that may only tell part of its historical story, but does so brilliantly. -
Peeples (PG-13)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Tina Gordon Chism
Starring: Craig Robinson, Kerry Washington, David Alan Grier, S. Epatha Merkerson, Tyler James Williams
The Story: A working-class guy meets his girlfriend's upper-class family. Predicability ensues. The Lowdown: An energetic cast can do little to elevate this by-the-numbers, flat comedy that plays like a sitcom.
Special Showings:
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Defiant Requiem (NR)
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The Frozen Ghost / Mysterious Mr. Wong (NR)
Genre: Horror Mystery
Director: Harold Young (The Mummy's Tomb) / William Nigh (Black Dragons)
Starring: Lon Chaney, Jr., Evelyn Ankers, Milburn Stone / Bela Lugosi, Wallace Ford, Arline Judge
In Brief: It's finally the makeup showing of the canceled The Frozen Ghost (1945) starring Lon Chaney, Jr. in one of his better Inner Sanctum mysteries. This time it's paired with the full-tilt nonsense of the delightfully silly Mysterious Mr. Wong starring Bela Lugosi in the title role, Mr. Wong — a criminal mastermind matching wits against wisecracking reporter Wallace Ford (professional wisecracking reporter portrayer). It rarely makes good sense and even feels like a serial stuffed into a 60-minute movie, but it provides no end of bizarre entertainment with the most anticlimactic ending ever. -
I'm Not Rappaport (PG-13)
Genre: Drama
Director: Herb Gardner (A Thousand Clowns)
Starring: Walter Matthau, Ossie Davis, Amy Irving, Martha Plimpton, Craig T. Nelson
In Brief: Playwright and sometimes filmmaker Herb Gardner brings his play I'm Not Rappaport to the screen with Walter Matthau and Ossie Davis in the leads. The first hour of its rather too expansive running time is very good indeed, if not especially great filmmaking. Matthau and Davis make an appealing pair of old men — not exactly friends, but who else is around? — whiling away their time in Central Park, each with his own problems. The dialogue — while sounding like dialogue — is good and penetrating. Then we get to what amounts to the second act and the film's desire to evolve into a more elaborate drama bogs things down pretty fast. It remains easily watchable, but it turns into less by trying to be more. -
Java Heat (R)
Genre: Action
Director: Conor Allyn
Starring: Kellan Lutz, Mickey Rourke, Ario Bayu. Frans Tumbuan
In Brief: The second ActionFest monthly screening is the same setup as last time with all proceeds going to Homeward Bound of Asheville, and the $10 admission includes free Ninja Porter (from Asheville Pizza) and soft drinks and popcorn from Carolina Cinemas. This time, viewers get the chance to see the film Java Heat starring Kellan Lutz (the Twilight films) and Mickey Rourke before its official opening. The film is a wild yarn — that doesn't always make sense — offering more style (the director obviously has seen a lot of Brian DePalma movies) than you probably expect, and a lot of often very explosive action that you probably do expect. Lutz makes a stolid, enigmatic hero and villains don't come any more perverse than Mickey Rourke. -
La Jetée / Mousse (NR)
Genre: Sci-Fi / Comedy-Drama
Director: Chris Marker / John Hellberg
Starring: Davos Hanich, Hélène Chatelain, Jacques Ledoux / Stepháne Bertola, Gunnar Ernblad, Marienette Dahlin
In Brief: Chris Marker's La Jetée (1962) has been shown by World Cinema before, so the real story here is the screening of this year's winner for Best Short Film at Twin Rivers Media Festival, John Hellberg's Mousse. This is a charming and quirky, fairly long (40 minutes) short that details a robbery gone wrong in ways that can scarcely be imagined. It's all about what happens when a Frenchman named Mousse holds up a Swedish betting parlor on the biggest racing day of the year. He also happens upon the most conspicuously odd hostages he could hope for, an incredibly geriatric police force and a compatriot so drunk that he might be dead. Clever, amusing, well-made and more than a little surprising. -
To Catch a Thief (PG)
Genre: Suspense Thriller
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis, John Williams
In Brief: Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief (1955) stars Cary Grant and Grace Kelly (yes, this is where the famous fireworks kissing scene comes from) in one of the master's lighter and most pleasant 1950s films. The film is nothing more than a romantic suspenser soufflé of the kind that Hitchcock was rightly famous for. OK, despite some location work, the film does suffer from some of the most obvious rear screen and process work of Hitch's career, but with Cary Grant as a retired jewel thief trying to prove he really is retired to the police — with time out for romancing Grace Kelly, it doesn't matter much. -
Whoopee! (NR)
Genre: Musical Comedy
Director: Thornton Freeland (Flying Down to Rio)
Starring: Eddie Cantor, Ethel Shutta, Paul Gregory, Eleanor Hunt, George Olsen and His Music
In Brief: Like a wonderful time capsule, Whoopee! offers us a glimpse into a world that hasn't existed for a very long time: the 1920s Broadway theater. Almost no one who was a part of that world is still with us, and even those who might have seen such a show are seriously diminished in number. Yet at the flick of a switch, Whoopee! — starring the legendary Eddie Cantor and the should-be-legendary Ethel Shutta — has the power to take us back to that world in all its antique charm. Whatever it lacks in cinematic style, it more than makes up for in its energetic, appealing cast, bright tunes and sheer good-natured nonsense.
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Oh, flapdoodle. You'd have done the same to me.
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Late Night Musings on Critics and Review Aggregation
I'd have laughed at you at the very least. You got a lot of nerve, to say you are my friend.
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Late Night Musings on Critics and Review Aggregation
What if I'd passed over DJANGO UNCHAINED for some mediocre crap and missed seeing that in a cinema? I'd have laughed at you at the very least.
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Late Night Musings on Critics and Review Aggregation
I hope that's not meant to impress me.
Commented on: The Great Gatsby
Well, George RR Martin liked it: http://grrm.livejournal.com/324330.html For Ken's benefit, he's the guy who wrote Game of Thrones.
Commented on: The Great Gatsby
Don't buy concessions and a movie is $8-$9. Or $18.50 if you live in Australia. Although for me, it's not a question of money, it's risk of wasting the time…
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Late Night Musings on Critics and Review Aggregation
$10 should come back to you when you walk into a mess like IM3. I wasted a date night on fire breathing super villains that I had never heard of.…
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Late Night Musings on Critics and Review Aggregation
This one crashed and burned here. Too bad. It appears to be gone by Thursday.
Commented on: No
Goes this week.
Commented on: Gimme the Loot
It's worth noting that the poster for The Sapphires has a "Certified Fresh" RT logo on it It was probably inevitable.
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Late Night Musings on Critics and Review Aggregation
It's worth noting that the poster for The Sapphires has a "Certified Fresh" RT logo on it, which is the first time I feel I've seen that. It also has…
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Late Night Musings on Critics and Review Aggregation
75% of this opinion is approved of by 32% of people who buy Alpo. Then it must be valid.
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Late Night Musings on Critics and Review Aggregation
I don't get it at all. It's not like movies are super expensive. Don't buy concessions and a movie is $8-$9. So, go see it anyhow, regardless of the reviews.…
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Late Night Musings on Critics and Review Aggregation
I believe #2 is more accurate, and the fact that I (almost alone in a vast, empty theatre) loved a film that RT gave 45% just shows that I am…
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Late Night Musings on Critics and Review Aggregation
OK, so we are back to two possibilities: 1) Low ratings on aggregate review sites like RT drive people away from films that would have done better; or 2) Films…
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Late Night Musings on Critics and Review Aggregation
I recall one particularly magic afternoon there watching "Cairo Time", which mesmerized me but probably got pretty low ratings. I looked and it got a respectable 81%, but it still…
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Late Night Musings on Critics and Review Aggregation
I'm going to start using the word "twaddle" more often. It's an insufficiently appreciated word. A withering look and "twaddle" can leave your opponent without a counter argument.
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Late Night Musings on Critics and Review Aggregation
"Fitzgerald’s slim, devastating masterwork...A good dose of overweening arrogance is always entertaining." Especially considering that the first printing of this "masterwork" only sold 20,000 copies and left Fitzgerald believing to…
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Late Night Musings on Critics and Review Aggregation
"Al, back to this for a moment. I seem to recall you liked Beautiful Creatures -- a film with a 45% approval rating that left town pretty darn fast." Yes,…
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Late Night Musings on Critics and Review Aggregation
I'm going to start using the word "twaddle" more often.
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Late Night Musings on Critics and Review Aggregation
Their write-up for Anna Karenina as one of the worst films of the year is what really made me roll my eyes. More twaddle. I don't think I will be…
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Late Night Musings on Critics and Review Aggregation
Although, I'll bet that GATSBY does have some insight into America. Just not the "approved" insight. But these guys should know that it's no longer insight if it's been done…
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Late Night Musings on Critics and Review Aggregation
Lots of people are going to movies that most critics and viewers agree are good, while stinkers are leaving town early with few takers. Al, back to this for a…
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Late Night Musings on Critics and Review Aggregation
That's what these guys are for. Sweet merciful king of glory, what twaddle.
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Late Night Musings on Critics and Review Aggregation
I certainly wouldn't have missed seeing Les Mis, which I liked a lot, regardless of the negative review. Yes, well...leave us face it, you are far fonder of show tunes…
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Late Night Musings on Critics and Review Aggregation
Whether or not the enthusiasm is geared toward anything I have much interest in, at least the capacity to be enthused is there--and that's a good thing. Or becomes a…
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Late Night Musings on Critics and Review Aggregation
http://reverseshot.com/article/reverse_shots_11_offenses_2012 Their write-up for Anna Karenina as one of the worst films of the year is what really made me roll my eyes. Wright’s big idea for Tolstoy’s big novel…
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Late Night Musings on Critics and Review Aggregation
That's what these guys are for. "Fitzgerald’s slim, devastating masterwork is, finally, a novel of America masquerading as a half-baked tragic love story, where the movie is an overwrought, though…
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Late Night Musings on Critics and Review Aggregation
I usually like to read the reviews after i see a film, just to get a different perspective.
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Late Night Musings on Critics and Review Aggregation
Or Tiny Mix Tapes if I feel like rolling my eyes at the mirthless, uber-pretentious, "indie cred" set. http://reverseshot.com/ That's what these guys are for.
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Late Night Musings on Critics and Review Aggregation
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