Besides doing fun relationship stuff like arguing about how to discipline our dog, New Times blogger Tyler Hughes and his girlfriend, Jackie Cronin, go to the movies. Tyler: New tits. This whole movie is about Cameron Diaz’s character, Elizabeth Halsey, trying to make enough money to buy herself new tits…
In a world gone mad, one vagabond has the courage and the fortitude to stand up to the corrupt forces that tear all that is good asunder. This is the plot to Hobo With A Shotgun, and it is more than 80-minutes of hideously terrific cinema.The contest-winning Grindhouse trailer turned…
No Festival Required, a local group dedicated to sharing independent cinema, is holding a screening of its 2011 Selected Shorts this Sunday at the Phoenix Art Museum. The screening will feature award-winning short films by Arizona moviemakers, including Tucson’s Yuri Makino, as well as international directors, such as Bartek Kulas…
From Tad Friend’s New Yorker profile of Anna Faris (which Jezebel.com reblogged under the headline “Hollywood Insiders Admit Hollywood Hates Women”) to the glass-ceiling-shattering pressure assigned to last month’s Bridesmaids (which has thus far outgrossed every previous Judd Apatow project since Knocked Up), a case could be made that 2011…
Graphic artist Mike Mills starts something new with Beginners. Playing an emotionally asphyxiated illustrator whose cancer-stricken dad comes out of the closet at age 75, Ewan McGregor looks positively yummy in Beginners, a gay-is-okay dramedy from the distributor that brought us The Kids Are All Right. In fact, this semi-autobiographical…
“Okay, so my parents were married in 1955, and my mom knew my dad was gay, and my dad knew he was gay, and so I was, like, ‘Why in the heck did you get married?’ Like, what was going on? What was that time? It’s like this crazy paradox…
Sad news for fans of MTV stuntfest Jackass: Daredevil driver Ryan Dunn, one of the many thrillseeking stars of the hit cable show, died early this morning after a gruesome car accident in his home state of Pennsylvania. According to media reports, the 34-year-old was speeding home from a night out…
FilmBar’s dishing out a movie deal — three documentary shorts and a chance to ask questions and chat with the local creators for $3. The event, which starts at 8 p.m., is the latest installment of Such a Deal Monday — the theater’s weekly screening of a film (or three) for a…
Besides doing fun relationship stuff like arguing about how to discipline their dog, New Times blogger Tyler Hughes and his girlfriend, Jackie Cronin, go to the movies. Tyler: With this recent influx of pretty decent superhero movies: THOR, Iron Man — even The Dark Knight — DC’s Green Lantern doesn’t…
At first glance, Todd Berger’s The Scenesters is a murder mystery about dying hipsters, and a cat-and-mouse between filmmakers, detectives, and crime scene cleanup artists. There are hidden clues in the form of indie rock cds left at crime scenes, and a serial killer with a sense of humor. That’s…
It’s 10 minutes before a human character appears on-screen in Green Lantern, a personality-free franchise-launcher that builds toward a quaint, if explosive, argument in favor of the nebulous quality of “humanity.” Via a heavily CGI’d prologue, we learn that The Universe is patrolled by a group of fearless, multi-species warriors…
The path of post-superstardom is a treacherous one for big-screen comedians, paved as it is with second-rate opportunities for dramedy schmaltz (See: Robin Williams in Patch Adams), wretched remakes (Steve Martin’s Pink Panther retreads), and talking-animal kiddie crap (Eddie Murphy’s Dr. Doolittle do-overs). Mr. Popper’s Penguins finds Jim Carrey choosing…
Gavin Wiesen’s first film, as passive and vanilla as its title, continues the numbing trendlet begun in 2008 with Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist: dramatizing the stupefying dullness of privileged white teenagers in New York City. Protagonist George (Freddie Highmore) is an 18-year-old Upper West Side Bartleby, preferring not to…
Few things represent childhood as accurately as dead babysitters and drag queens, so when we found out that local performer Becky Bodacious was kicking off her summer film series with Don’t tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead, we nearly jumped off the roof with excitement. On Saturday, June 25, Becky Bodacious…
The movie theater is a great place to kill a few summer afternoon hours while catching up on some cinematic pop culture. But if you’re looking for a well-rounded experience to accompany your viewing, these five spots will have you fixed in no time. 1. The Dive-In: Swim up and…
Besides doing fun relationship stuff like arguing about how to discipline their dog, New Times blogger Tyler Hughes and his girlfriend, Jackie Cronin, go to the movies. Jackie: I very rarely say this about movies but… I really, really liked Super 8. It was a throwback to all of those…
A big-bang demolition derby, J.J. Abrams’ much-anticipated, greatly enjoyable Super 8 seems bound for box-office glory. Opening three weeks before July 4, this Steven Spielberg-produced, kid-centric 21st-century disaster flick could well hang in at theaters till the 10th anniversary of 9/11 — an event that haunts Abrams’ surefire blockbuster nearly…
Including glimpses of Sleeping Beauty in her glass coffin, the rings of Saturn, and a roadside Texas BBQ, Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life bears forth a variety of forms — and invites as many reactions. You may feel amazed or muddled, softly spoken to or simply abandoned while watching…
When New Times blogger Michelle Martinez and her partner, musician E.J. Rodriguez, are not watching movies, they’re talking about them.They’ve even been known to stop a movie to discuss it. E.J.: For the longest time I thought of Will Ferrell as an overexposed actor who stretched his SNL skits out…
Greatly expanded from a four-page, single-situation story by Raymond Carver, Dan Rush’s first feature Everything Must Go is an ambitious if enervated vehicle for Will Ferrell — playing it straight as Nick Halsey, a middle-class drunk fired from his job and locked out of his suburban home by an irate,…
Nothing goes better with a movie than dinner (and perhaps vise versa), which Chow Bella has all figured out. Dinner and a Movie pairs all sorts of films with themed recipes each week.Today features Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere starring Stephen Dorff, Elle Fanning, and Chris Pontius, who examine their own lives…
Besides doing fun relationship stuff like arguing about how to discipline their dog, New Times blogger Tyler Hughes and his girlfriend, Jackie Cronin, go to the movies. Tyler: The Wolfpack is back and this time they’re trading a weekend in Vegas for one night in Bangkok. I thought it was…
