Pain and Gain (2013) Michael BayBasing a movie on true events is tricky. Basing a movie on true crime events is trickier. You want to tell your story but you don't want to glorify the criminals involved. So what do...
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SOLD OUT! Star Trek TNG – Crossgates Doubles Capacity!
Theaters & Showtimes:UPDATE: The expansion was granted and the showing has been moved to theater #10, which has a capacity of 400 seats and a screen twice as large. This is a phenomenal turn of events. A manager today...
Marc Webb teasing with set pics for Spider-man 2.
Marc Webb, director of the Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone headlined Spider-man reboot, has been tweeting some teasers from the upcoming Spider-man 2. Here's Jamie Foxx as Max Dillon (Electro), and Dane DeHaan as Harry Osborne. <click images to enlarge> The...
The Place Beyond the Pines – Reviewed.
Showtimes & Tickets: Homegrown feature The Place Beyond the Pines expanded wide today, now showing on 1,542 screens. While major studio films generally open wide above 2,000, Pines has been slowly working its way into the mainstream. Something of a...
The Lords of Salem Delivers the Creeps
When I found out that rocker turned director Rob Zombie had a new film coming out I was more than excited. Being a huge fan of his first feature House of a 1000 Corpses, I was eagerly anticipating his new...
Room 237 Delivers the Theories Surrounding Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining
I am assuming that most people reading this have seen Stanley Kubrick's film version of the Stephen King novel The Shining. If you have not then stop reading this and go watch it. For those of you that have read...
A Mild Trance
Showtimes & Tickets: James McAvoy Simon Vincent Cassel Franck Rosario Dawson Elizabeth If you've seen even a few movies, there's a good chance you've seen a Danny Boyle film. Not one to be pinned down to any genre...
The Place Beyond the Pines Comes To The Place Beyond The Pines.
Showtimes & Tickets <Click images to enlarge. Hover over for more captions> Ben Coccio agrees, promote local. Especially, Albany.com! The local premiere for The Place Beyond the Pines materialized like only movie magic can muster, this Thursday. Hosted at Bow-Tie Cinemas in downtown Schenectady, more than a...
New This Week
42 (PG-13) --- The story of how Branch Rickey (Harrison Ford) signed Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman) to be the first African-American major leaguer. Robinson's dignity in the face of troubles with teammates, management, opponents and the public are legendary both...
The Evil Dead Returns
I feel that many of these horror remakes these days are the product of movie studios running out of ideas for original content and an easy way to grab cash from all of the people that will go see it....