Who needs a drive-in when you have New York City’s parks? All you need to see a movie alfresco this summer is a blanket—picnics optional. Films: There’s a loose globe-hopping theme, with each movie in the lineup showcasing a different city.
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Highly Recommended During the early 1930s, ambitious comedy producer Hal Roach, anxious to move away from the two-reel comedies for which he was famous, decided that his ticket to bigger and better things lay in feature-length, lavishly costumed adaptations of operettas. And yet the resulting, dramatically wobbly films, Fra Diavolo , Babes in Toyland , and The Bohemian Girl , would be forgotten …
“Movies Under the Stars’’ will be presented on Monday evenings, through Aug. 5, at Beaumont Sports Park on Beaumont Avenue. The location changed due to the fire camp at Noble Creek Park because of the Hathaway fire.
Rent It The Movie: Talk about non-truth in advertising. When the advance trailer for Upside Down first turned up online, its parade of eye-popping imagery promised a moody and enigmatic, Inception -like immersive experience. While there was a lot of potential in this tale of young lovers separated by planets having opposing gravity pulls, the facile romance at the film’s core brings to mind the …
Sofia Coppola was on a plane when she read the Vanity Fair article “The Suspect Wore Louboutins,” about a gang of teenagers from the San Fernando Valley who went around burglarizing the homes of celebs – Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Orlando Bloom.
Unflinching and searing in its brutal honesty, “The Squid and The Whale” is a story of divorce told through the eyes of the two children as their parents grope about in uncharted territory.
Highly Recommended THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are stills provided by Music Box Films and are not taken from the current Blu-ray edition under review. It’s always troubling to ponder, the way that the time, place, and culture in which one is born and raised can so easily slot you onto the wrong side of history. How sure can any of us be that we would’ve been in the tiny minority …
Recommended The above is from a trailer for The Manson Family included on this disc and is also quoted on the back cover. Being a DVDTalk reviewer for a relatively short time, this is the first time I have been faced with the unique challenge of covering a new release of a title that previously received praise worthy enough of being quoted on it.
Family-friendly favorites will be the lineup this summer as the popular Movies in the Park return to the Sixth Street softball complex in Marshalltown.