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Unless someone invents Smell-o-Vision before Wednesday’s global rollout of the documentary “Michael Jackson’s This Is It,” fans will never get to know one of the most visceral aspects of working with the King of Pop.
“If not now, when?” the Jewish sage Hillel famously asked, and with “A Serious Man” the Coen brothers have answered.
Finally, a horror thriller served up straight.
The star power of “Gossip Girl” actor Penn Badgley is about to burn brighter when his thriller, “The Stepfather,” hits theaters today. Though he is only 22, the former Charles Wright Academy student is anything but a newbie to the acting business.
“Law Abiding Citizen” is a glib, brutal and preposterous revenge fantasy, a take-the-law-in-your-own-hands rabble-rouser that taps into a lot of fears and genuine gripes about the American legal system. It’s the sort of movie Mel Gibson or Clint Eastwood might have made back in the day – a man survives the slaughter of his family by thugs and sets out to get even, and then some.
The conceit is simple enough. Round up three generations of famous rock guitarists, use home movies, visits to their old stomping grounds and concert footage to tell their stories, then put them in a room together to see what happens.
How do you make a movie about the country’s current economic crisis and actually get people to see it?
In the months after the zombie apocalypse, brought on by a virulent mutation of Mad Cow Disease, America has ceased to be.
A bouncy, female-centric portrait of a misfit teen finding her place in the world, “Whip It” isn’t the most original movie you’ll see this year. But first-time director Drew Barrymore illustrates an edict which experienced filmmakers would be wise to follow: If you surround yourself with a stellar cast and invest the proceedings with heart and energy, you’ll earn the audience’s attention.
Brit-comic Ricky Gervais stakes a serious claim to the title “the British Albert Brooks” with “The Invention of Lying,” his droll, witty and thoughtful comedy about the thing that really makes the world go round.
Things are looking up for film in the Northwest, and it’s partly thanks to the Tacoma Film Festival. Now in its fourth year, the festival organized by the Grand Cinema has taken an intensely local turn, with nearly one-third of its 132 films made by Northwest filmmakers. It’s good exposure for them, good marketing for the Grand, and a unique experience for audiences who see local surroundings and lifestyles on the big screen.
In telling the story of the final years in the brief life of poet John Keats, “Bright Star” easily could have been a stuffy, period costume drama.
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