The Great Gatsby (PG-13 -- 3D) --- Baz Luhrmann's (Strictly Ballroom, Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge!) highly anticipated treatment of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel hits screens at long last. This latest film stars Leonardo DiCaprio (Romeo + Juliet, The...
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New This Week: Summer’s Upon Us
The weather has turned! Drive-ins are open! The birds are back! And so are the action movies. There's only one big opening, and boy howdy is it BIG! (The folks in Hollywood know what's what, and kept everything else off...
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...
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...
New This Week
It's a light week, folks. We've hit the pre-Memorial Day lull. Evil Dead 5 (R) --- Do I even have to tell you anything about it? It's Evil Dead. OK, I'll tell you that it's a remake of the 1981 Sam...
Roger Ebert dies at 70 after latest battle with cancer
Roger Ebert loved movies. Except for those he hated.;D(as reported today by the Chicago Sun Times, where Ebert has been a film critic since 1967.)...
No, thank you, Mr. Ebert
Acclaimed writer and movie critic Roger Ebert has passed away today and I'm deeply saddened. 46 years ago he began writing for the Chicago Sun-Times. I've long admired, respected, and often deferred to his opinion in regards to films. The man...
Wetlands Preserved: The Story of an Activist Nightclub
Wetlands Preserved: The Story of an Activist Nightclub recounts the inception and eventual closing of the legendary New York Wetlands Preserve club. Founder Larry Bloch wanted to open a place for environmental activist groups to convene that was supported...
Thank You Park Chan-wook for Stoker
A few weeks ago I revisited Oldboy, Park Chan-wook's complex revenge story. Knowing that his new film was not a South Korean production, but his first US / UK production, I was very excited. So being in Boston today and...