Conformist Critics In Award Season?
Jeffrey Wells writes about the Florida critics."The Florida Film Critics Circle have shown themselves to be just as conformist, regimented and sheep-like as other award-bestowing critics groups, with each of th...
More Critics Awards Honor ‘Slumdog,’ ‘Ben Button’ And ‘Wendy & Lucy’
Another day another round of film critic awards from various cities across North America. Let's waste no time getting into it.The Dallas/Fortworth Film Critics Association have given "Slumdog Millionaire" the t...
Award Season Watch: AFI Lists Its Top 10 Films Of 2008; ‘Slumdog’ Continues Nabbing Critical Awards
The American Film Institute released the winners of its AFI Awards on Sunday, including its annual top 10 list. The list is an interesting mix of mainstream ("Wall-E," "The Dark Knight") and indie films, "Froz...
Weekend Box-Office For December 12; ‘Doubt,’ ‘The Reader’ ‘Gran Torino,’ ‘Wendy & Lucy,’ ‘Che’ More…
For once, this is actually a very crowded, movie-going weekend with tons of Oscar-bait going head to head. Of course garbage like "The Day The Earth Stood Still" with Keenooo Reeves is probably going to rule th...
Kelly Reichardt And Michelle Williams Talk ‘Wendy And Lucy’
Kelly Reichardt's latest film, "Wendy and Lucy," comes out this Friday, December 12th in select theaters in New York and L.A. Reichardt and star, Michelle Williams sat down to talk about downcast subject matte...
Michelle Williams Talks The Personal Nature Of ‘Wendy & Lucy’
Kelly Reichardt's "Wendy & Lucy" is such a micro, minimalist piece of work and Michelle Williams is astonishing in in, but it seems so far off the mainstream radar. In short, if two more people go see this ...
Listen: Yo La Tengo’s They Shoot, We Score
Back in August, Hoboken indie-rockers Yo La Tengo announced they would be finally releasing their various film score work in a collection CD called, They Shoot, We Score via their own website starting in Septem...
Darren Aronofsky Wants To “Reinvent” ‘RoboCop’, Brandon Routh Seems Unsure Of A “Darker” Superman
Darren Aronofsky talks "RoboCop" again. Not saying anything really new, he says it'll be a "real reinvention." “Me and David Self are working on the screenplay. He's a great, great writer and we're trying to d...
Trailer: The Minimalism Of ‘Wendy & Lucy’ With Michell Williams
Kelly Reichardt's minimalist look at poverty, sympathy and generosity at the fringes of American life, "Wendy & Lucy," has a trailer. Bolstered by a devastating, quiet and internalized performance by Michel...
New York Film Festival: That’s A Wrap
We burned the candle at both ends in the home stretch of the 46th Annual New York Film Festival, didn't have a life and didn't get much sleep, but it was worth it. We felt like it was like being at Cannes, we s...