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Save Fruitvale Station From The Spirits! 27 Aug 2013 | 08:10 am
It’s conceivable that three 2013 films about the African-American experience in this country will snag a Best Picture nomination — Steve McQueen‘s 12 Years A Slave (which runs 134 minutes), Lee Daniel...
Clock Is Ticking 26 Aug 2013 | 10:56 pm
My final predictions for the lineup at the 2013 Telluride Film Festival, which won’t be revealed until Thursday (or will it be Wednesday?), are the same that everyone else is kicking around: Joel and ...
Immediate Disqualifier 26 Aug 2013 | 10:21 pm
I’ve said two or three times before that any action- or FX-driven thriller using an overhead shot of the lead protagonists (i.e., characters who probably won’t die) jumping off the top of a building o...
Leonard’s English 26 Aug 2013 | 09:42 pm
I was thinking this morning about the influence of the late Elmore Leonard, particularly the way the late crime novelist would occasionally put the article or main object at the end of a sentence. Whi...
Those Who Live in Glass Houses 25 Aug 2013 | 10:06 pm
An 8.25 N.Y. Times story by Michael Cieply and Julie Bosman passes along information that “at least five additional books” by the late J.D. Salinger, “some of them entirely new, some extending past wo...
And Ms. Harris Acts A Little 25 Aug 2013 | 08:59 pm
I don’t have the experience to eulogize the great Julie Harris, who died yesterday in West Chatham, Massachusetts at age 87. I never saw her once on the New York stage, where she shined the brightest ...
Serpent’s Shadow 24 Aug 2013 | 11:56 pm
I’ve always loved the Larry Cohen‘s Q, The Winged Serpent (’82), which is out on Bluray on 8.27. I love the jazzy hipster attitude, the flagrantly insincere tone and especially the cheesy special effe...
Tenacious But Classy 24 Aug 2013 | 11:26 pm
Sid Bernstein, the New York-based concert promoter who booked the Beatles into Carnegie Hall in February 1964 and for two big concerts at Shea Stadium in the summers of ’65 and ’66, died three days ag...
By What Standard? 24 Aug 2013 | 10:53 pm
Lee Daniels’ The Butler is #1 for the second week in a row, obviously because people like it (and that’s fine) but also because there’s no real competition, right? The Weinstein Co. was smart to open ...
Batfleck Aftermath 24 Aug 2013 | 09:46 pm
Like it or not, Zack Snyder‘s Batman vs. Superman (Warner Bros., 7.15) will star Ben Affleck as Bruce Wayne/Batman and Henry Cavill as Superman…check. But lost in the Batfleck hubbub is a question of ...
