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[DVD Review] My One and Only

1 December 2009 5:00 AM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

When you hear “limited release Renee Zellweger movie about a proper lady in the 1950’s who picks herself up by her bootstraps,” you don’t hold out much hope. When you hear “cast of odd, bland C-stringers, including Steve Weber, Eric McCormack, Chris Noth, and Nick Stahl,” you don’t hold out much hope. And when you literally hear Zellweger’s upbraided Southern belle, Anne Deveraux, spit out endless, cutesy aphorisms within the first five minutes of the movie, like, “A man never thinks a woman is smarter than when she's listening to him,” well then, you don’t hold your lunch. Still, even though Zellweger seemingly insists on making a career out of playing characters who are just oh-so-fettered, this particular story, which has her go off on an ill-conceived road trip in search of a gentleman to take care of her and her family, after she’s found »

- Michael Narkunski

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Brief Encounter – Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard – d: David Lean

26 November 2009 12:30 AM, PST | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »

Brief Encounter (1945) Direction: David Lean Screenplay: David Lean, Ronald Neame, Anthony Havelock-Allan; from Noel Coward’s play Still Life Cast: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Cyril Raymond   Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard in Brief Encounter   Synopsis: A married doctor (Trevor Howard) and a housewife (Celia Johnson) have an adulterous (platonic) affair. The Pros: Shadow-bathed, smoke-enshrouded railway stations (cinematography by Robert Krasker) to the strains of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2. David Lean’s delicate direction, and Lean, Ronald Neame, and Anthony Havelock-Allan’s sensitive adaptation of Noel Coward’s play Still Life. No Hollywood ending here, and no syrupy, cutesy moments, either. Best actress Oscar nominee and New York Film Critics winner Celia Johnson’s über-British performance as the sympathetic, adulterous, stiff-upper-lipped, and most sad-eyed housewife in all of England, and [...] »

- Andre Soares

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Paranormal Activity (2009)

16 October 2009 12:38 PM, PDT | Pretty/Scary | See recent pretty-scary news »

Written and directed by Oren Peli

Starring Demon Off Camera, Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat

Review by Lis Fies

If you haven't seen Paranormal Activity by now, it can't possibly live up to its word of mouth and you're probably a more experienced genre-lover who is over 25. That being said, there's some good content of the Pretty/Scary nature that makes this 11k ultra-low-budget phenom a solid choice for your Halloween bucks.

As you've heard, because you're a smart horror-lover not born under a rock, the movie basically stars a girl, a boy, a camera, and an off-camera demon...

The use of the camera is fairly ingenius, and the nauseating effects of queasy-cam are kept to a minimum by the very effective use of locking the camera down on a creepy tripod shot of the couple's bedroom every night over... what did the day count end up being? A month? »

- TheCommune

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Laugh it up at the Theater this Weekend! Movieset Weekend Release Round-up!

2 October 2009 1:28 PM, PDT | MovieSet.com | See recent MovieSet.com news »

Are you ready to laugh it up this weekend? Well get on down to the theater for your chance to watch a comedy of almost every genre. Check out Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut coming of age comedy/drama ‘Whip It.’ horror/comedy ‘Zombieland,’ The Coen Brothers black comedy ‘A Serious Man,’ Michael Moore’s comical documentary ‘Capitalism: A Love Story‘ or Ricky Gervais’ straight up comedy ‘The Invention of Lying.’

Whip It

If you like Drew Barrymore as an actress, then check out her directorial debut coming of age comedy/drama Whip It featuring an all star cast of Ellen Page (Juno), Alia Shawkat (TV’s Arrested Development), Kristen Wiig (Extract), Drew Barrymore (Charlie’s Angels), Juliette Lewis (From Dusk Till Dawn), Jimmy Fallon (Fever Pitch), Daniel Stern (Home Allone), Eve, Zoe Bell (Grindhouse).

Ellen Page stars as Bliss Cavendar in Whip It

For years, Bliss Cavendar (Page) has »

- Shannon

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Love Happens

19 September 2009 6:52 PM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »

I have not lost anyone significant in my life, not lately anyways.  The last close relative of mine who died was my grandfather in ’91 so I have not had to go through the healing process of grief in a very long time (knock on wood).  My wife, however, has not been so fortunate.  Her mother died just last year and I’ve seen the pain she’s had to go through, and is still going through, to be able to move on.  She and I saw this movie on two different levels.  Aaron Eckhart plays Burke, a psychologist whose wife died in a car crash.  As he went through the healing process, he wrote what it takes to move past the death of a loved one in a book he titled A-Okay.  The book helped many people and soon he began doing book tours and, eventually, seminars, which is where »

- Marco Duran

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American Apparel Honcho Denies Playing Dirty With Woody

7 May 2009 11:00 AM, PDT | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »

Woody Allen might find a movie in here somewhere, but we're still not sure whether it's Crimes and Misdemeanors or Hollywood Ending. The founder of American Apparel is denying that he's playing up salacious details of the director's personal life to beat back a $10 million lawsuit Allen has filed against the company. Allen claims American Apparel used his image from Annie Hall for billboards and online advertising without permission. "The media has misinformed the public that American Apparel supposedly plans to make Woody Allen's personal life the central focus of our defense. This is false," American Apparel CEO Dov Charney writes on the company's blog. "It has also been reported... »

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We Can't Wait #18 Whatever Works

5 February 2009 9:30 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Directed by Woody Allen

Starring Evan Rachel Wood, Larry David, Patty Clarkson and Kristen Johnston

Synopsis Aging New York City man begins romance with a much younger (what a surprise!) southern gal and has wacky encounters with her family.

Brought to you by Sony Pictures Classics

Expected Release Date Summer

Fox: I have a Woody Allen blind spot. Meaning, the man could put out crap for the rest of his life, and I would still hold out hope that the next time around would produce one of his good ones. I'm also not one to jump all over Allen's post-80s output. Not at all. I quite like many of the films he made in the last twenty years. However, personally, I can do without any more European Scarlett Johannson jaunts.

I have high expectations for Whatever Works because it has a unique comic supporting cast in Ed Begley Jr. and Kristen Johnston. »

- NATHANIEL R

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