Case you missed it last week, this is the new weekly series on The Matinee. It’ll post on Saturday nights to go along with my “Today, I Feel Like This” series. I’m keep tabs on the movies I watch, and this week things didn’t slow all that much. Here’s the weekly watchlist, with a thought…
Today, I Feel Like This…
My friends, today is one of my favorite days of the year. That gauntlet that I mentioned this time last week? It ends at six o’ clock tonight and things go back to normal. I’m not quite as gassed or frustrated as I have been in past years, but still, it’ll be nice for it…
Two weeks ago I left a pair of movie tickets at home. On New Year’s weekend, I was meeting up with Bob from Eternal Sunshine to watch LAWRENCE OF ARABIA at The Lightbox. After 30 minutes on the subway and walking through downtown, the fact that I didn’t have the tickets to the movie I…
I’m not usually one to post set photos or the like, but this one got my attention. While I found The Milennium Trilogy to be an entity of diminishing returns, there’s no denying that I found the first movie darkly fascinating. So when word came down that David Fincher will be remaking it for release…
Springtime action films are either a lot of fun (read: THE MATIRX, 300) or particularly dumb (THE CORE, DRIVEN). While some out there might believe that I’ve lost the ability to have any fun at the movies, I think that this particular walk through Apocalypseland looks like it could be pretty darned cool. Anybody with…
Nominees for the final Oscar precursor were announced yesterday – the shortlist for the Director’s Guild of America awards. The Five directors nominated were: Darren Aronofsky, BLACK SWAN David Fincher, THE SOCIAL NETWORK Tom Hooper, THE KING’S SPEECH Christopher Nolan, INCEPTION David O. Russell, THE FIGHTER So when it comes to the Oscars, two things…
