Tags: drama
Tags: drama
Monday Morning Poll: Pick Another Del Toro Sequel
Posted Monday July 7, 2008, 2:55 am, Over one day old at Cinematical
Filed under: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fandom, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Remakes and Sequels, Monday Morning Poll, Polls With the arrival of this weekend's Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, we find ourselves (once again) discussing *damn* how great a genre filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is.
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Indies on DVD: 'Chop Shop,' 'Tracey Fragments,' 'Joe Strummer'
Posted Monday July 7, 2008, 2:55 am, Over one day old at Cinematical
Filed under: Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Horror, Independent, New on DVD, Home Entertainment, Cinematical Indie Hmm, I don't remember any of this week's noteworthy indie DVD releases playing at theaters in my area, so why don't we catch up together and decide what to rent?
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De Niro Talks Strike, Scorsese, 'Shepherd' Sequels
Posted Monday July 7, 2008, 2:55 am, Over one day old at Cinematical
De Niro said: "I do not think it is a good time to strike now. He also noted that he didn't think actors have "done their homework" to get a good deal, and that "I do not know if it is the right time to be doing this at all with the economy the way it is."
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Don't Fear the Subs: 'Sunflower' Paints Picture of Chinese Familial Unrest
Posted Sunday July 6, 2008, 1:48 pm, Over one day old at Cinematical
Filed under: Drama, Foreign Language, New Yorker, New on DVD, Home Entertainment, Cinematical Indie Let's face it, family dramas are universal: one generation raising the next, the young resisting the old, conflict, tears, intense feelings, "you don't let me," "why don't you," and so forth.
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John Madden Zeroes In On 'The Debt'
Posted Sunday July 6, 2008, 1:48 pm, Over one day old at Cinematical
(The director, obviously, not the football man.) The problem is: The man had escaped their clutches, so they just claimed he committed suicide to save their skins. With the war criminal alive and ready to admit to his crimes, the agents set out to finish the job and save their reputations.
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Review: The Wackness
Posted Saturday July 5, 2008, 2:14 pm, Over one day old at Cinematical
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Cinematical's Friday Night Double Feature: Frights for the Fourth
Posted Saturday July 5, 2008, 2:14 pm, Over one day old at Cinematical
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Trailer Park: Keeping It Real
Posted Saturday July 5, 2008, 2:14 pm, Over one day old at Cinematical
The Perfect Game I've never enjoyed watching sports so baseball movies usually leave me cold, but this one has a couple of things going for it: a true tale of a bunch of kids rising up from poverty to become world champions, and former drug culture icon Cheech Marin playing a priest.
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Acclaimed Indie 'Ballast' Goes the Self-Distribution Route
Posted Saturday July 5, 2008, 2:14 pm, Over one day old at Cinematical
Filed under: Drama, IFC, Distribution, Cinematical Indie Talk about conflicted emotions! In a very fine article at indieWIRE, Anthony Kaufman reports on filmmaker Lance Hammer's recent decision to pull out of a distribution deal with IFC Films for his Sundance award-winning feature, Ballast.
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Original Script for 'Hancock' Leaks Online
Posted Friday July 4, 2008, 3:34 am, Over one day old at Cinematical
Filed under: Action, Drama, Sony, RumorMonger, Scripts, Comic/Superhero/Geek Okay, so we went through something similar with Frank Darabont's unused draft of the latest Indiana Jones installment, which managed to be a bit better (read: Mutt-less) compared to the still entertaining end result.
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