Feeling half-good about Friends With Money, I spoke last week to Sony Classics co-chief Tom Bernard the day after last week’s Friends with Money premiere screening and after-party. We got into how the “dependents” — the studio-funded indie divisons — aren’t making or distributing “indie” films as much as smart, character-drivien middle-budget films for upscale audiences…the kind of movies that the big studios used to churn out but pretty much gave up on sometime in the early to mid ’90s.
To my great surprise and delight, Christy Hall‘s Daddio, which I was remiss in not seeing during last year’s Telluride...
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7:45 pm: Okay, the initial light-hearted section (repartee, wedding, hospital, afterlife Joey Pants, healthy diet) was enjoyable, but Jesus, when...
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It took me a full month to see Wes Ball and Josh Friedman‘s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes...
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Unless Part Two of Kevin Costner‘s Horizon (Warner Bros., 8.16) somehow improves upon the sluggish initial installment and delivers something...
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For me, A Dangerous Method (2011) is David Cronenberg‘s tastiest and wickedest film — intense, sexually upfront and occasionally arousing...
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