Archive for the ‘Films’ Category
They bring you the news so you don’t have to get it yourself
Here’s what’s happening in your world: The Channel Four News Team will be back in theaters in December 2013 in Anchorman: The Legend Continues! Ron Burgundy is still a really big deal so check out how good looking he still is in the new trailer here .*LOUD NOISES*…
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The Wolverine trailer
Check out The Wolverine, if you haven’t already. Directed by James Mangold and starring Hugh Jackman, Famke Janssen, and Will Yun Lee. Set in Japan, Wolverine must overcome the new physical challenges he faces and fight a villain from his past. Coming this July.…
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Great Gatsby and Star Trek Into Darkness early shows
Come see Great Gatsby a day early at 10PM, Thursday May 9th, and then plan on staying up late Wednesday May 15th for a 12:01AM show of Star Trek Into Darkness. Tickets for both are on sale now, and are in glorious digital! Hope to see everyone there. …
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Your Sister’s Sister, funny, awkward, honest, surprising
Your Sister’s Sister, starring Emily Blunt, Rosemarie DeWitt and Mark Duplass opens in the screening room today. Directed by Lynn Shelton (Humpday), this film was shot in a lightning fast 12 days, and Shelton allowed the actors to improvise most of the film’s dialogue. This sort of film-making can go horribly awry, …
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COMPLIANCE, not easy on the brain, but well worth watching.
Compliance has stirred up a fair amount of controversy since it debuted at Sundance, and this week, we bring Compliance to you, the faithful and stalwart patrons of CinemaSalem. And stalwart you will need to be. Based on a real life case, the details of which can be reviewed here, the film depicts an …
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Hara-Kiri delivers drama, Queen of Versailles horror
I’ll be talking about two movies this week–Takashi Miike’s new drama Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (opening today in the screening room) and Lauren Greenfield’s latest documentary, The Queen of Versailles (opening on one of the big screens today).
Takashi Miike, best known for some of his more gruesome work–Ichi the Killer, Audition…
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Take This Waltz delivers solid acting and no easy answers
In her second feature-length directorial outing, Canadian actor and film-maker Sarah Polley delivers a nuanced, if imperfect, meditation on marriage and infidelity. Establishing herself as a talented writer and director in 2006 with her feature Away From Her, which earned wide critical acclaim, Polley’s second feature faced steep expectations from both critics and her …
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Alternate Avengers opening
Slash Film posted one of the extras from the upcoming Blu-ray/DVD release of The Avengers, which is an alternative opening to the film. It’s quite a different tone and clearly doesn’t fit with the film that we got. But it’s an interesting look into what would have been a completely different movie. Cobie Smulders, …
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I Wish a delight for all ages
This week’s screening room film, I Wish, directed by Hirokazu Koreeda (Nobody Knows, Still Walking) is a simple, joyous delight. Like most of Koreeda’s films, the plot centers on a family in crisis. The narrative revolves around the two sons Koichi and Ryu, who are living in separate households following their parent’s …
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Cool Cloud Atlas character shots revealed
Plenty of you probably saw the Cloud Atlas trailer we posted last week. Unless you’ve read the book, the trailer is probably a bit confusing, but intriguing nonetheless. Readers of the book may well be wondering, even after seeing the breathtaking trailer, how a good movie of a book with such a diverse group of …
