Good movies actually draw crowds
Every year around this time, the multiplexes start filling with “serious” movies — the Oscar bait.
December 23, 2012
No Comments
Every year around this time, the multiplexes start filling with “serious” movies — the Oscar bait.
“Rashomon,” “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” “Brazil,” a collection of Frank Capra films and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Trilogy of Life” are screened in this month’s column, offering some last-minute holiday gift ideas.
Every year around this time, the multiplexes start filling with so-called “serious” movies — the Oscar bait. For the last few years, those films have had a problem.
Every year around this time, the multiplexes start filling with so-called “serious” movies — the Oscar bait, the festival winners, the indie fan favorites.
Arrow Video have set a January 14th release date for the UK DVD debut of Ferdinando Baldi’s ‘Django, Prepare A Coffin’
Just like Nidge and Co, Love/Hate is taking out the competition in terms of DVD sales in the run up to Christmas.
You’ll find an entry on Lyle Talbot (1902-1996) in some movie encyclopedias, but not in others. In the early 1930s, he was under contract to Warner Bros., often playing “weak-willed malefactors.†His co-stars included Barbara Stanwyck, Carole Lombard and Mae West, but he wasn’t charismatic enough to build a picture around, and the studio eventually let him go. He ended up making something like …
If the world comes to an end today, it won’t be the first time. At least on film, planet Earth has been destroyed, decimated, and rebuilt countless times over, from a myriad of causes and in a variety of situations that even the Mayans couldn’t have seen coming (nuclear war! aliens! zombies!).
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Rentrak Corporation (NASDAQ: RENT) today announced the top ten movies-on-demand titles based on consumer transaction rate. Movies-on-demand are transactional …