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Street Kings - Filmzee Friday Film Preview
Film: Street Kings.
Release: Wide.
Category: Crime, Drama, Thriller.
Opening: Fri Apr 11, 2008
Director: David Ayer.
Writer: James Ellroy, Kurt Wimmer, and Jamie Moss, based on a story by James Ellroy.
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie, Jay Mohr, Cedric the Entertainer, Common, The Game.
Rating: R
Runtime: 109 min.
Notes: It’s really hard to tell whether this one is worth […]
Smart People - Filmzee Friday Film Preview
Film: Smart People.
Release: Wide.
Category: Comedy, Drama, Romance.
Opening: Fri Apr 11, 2008
Director: Noam Murro.
Writer: Mark Poirer.
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Thomas Haden Church, Sarah Jessica Parker, Ellen Page.
Rating: R
Runtime: 95 min.
Notes: Dennis Quaid plays a professor who ends up in the hospital after accident due to a seizure. Ellen […]
Prom Night - Filmzee Friday Film Preview
Film: Prom Night.
Release: Wide.
Category: Horror, Mystery, Thriller.
Opening: Fri Apr 11, 2008
Director: Nelson McCormick.
Writer: J.S. Cardone.
Cast: Brittany Snow, Scott Porter, Johnathon Schaech.
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 88 min.
Notes: Prom Night might be tagged a remake of the 1980 original, but the original writers aren’t credited (at least not in IMDB). […]
The Visitor - Filmzee Friday Film Preview
Film: The Visitor.
Release: Limited.
Category: Comedy, Drama.
Opening: Fri Apr 11, 2008 (opens in wider release on Apr 18th).
Director: Thomas McCarthy.
Writer: Thomas McCarthy.
Cast: Richard Jenkins, Haaz Sleiman, Danai Jekesai Gurira, Maggie Moore, Richard Kind.
Rating: PG/ PG-13
Runtime: 108 min.
Notes: A professor takes off for a conference, only to find […]
Young@Heart - Filmzee Friday Film Preview
Film: Young@Heart.
Release: Limited.
Category: Documentary, Drama, Music.
Opening: Fri Apr 11, 2008
Director: Stephen Walker.
Writer: n/a
Cast: Stan Goldman, Jeanne Hatch.
Rating: PG
Runtime: 107 min.
Notes: This looks like an immensely entertaining documentary about the Young at Heart Chorus, a group of citizens from New England who cover rock’n’roll and punk classics.
Review: […]
Chaos Theory - Filmzee Friday Film Preview
Film: Chaos Theory.
Release: Limited.
Category: Comedy, Drama, Romance.
Opening: Fri Apr 11, 2008
Director: Marcos Siega.
Writer: Daniel Taplitz.
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Emily Mortimer.
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 85 min.
Notes: I never been a Ryan Reynolds fan, at least not consciously, but he has an understated quality that might grow on you. In this […]
Bra Boys - Filmzee Friday Film Preview
Film: Bra Boys.
Release: Limited.
Category: Documentary
Opening: Fri Apr 11, 2008
Director: Sunny Abberton, Macario De Souza.
Writer: Sunny Abberton, Stuart Beattie.
Cast: Russell Crowe (narration), Kelly Slater
Rating: R
Runtime: 90 min.
Notes: The title of this film might invoke memories of the Seinfeld episode where Kramer and Frank Costanza create “the bro”, a […]
Movie Box Office Top 10 - Mon Apr 07, 2008
Of the four wide-release movies that opened this past weekend, three made it into the top 5 of box office receipts, as I expected. Only the Rolling Stones documentary, Shine a Light, did not make the top 10. None of the limited-release movies made it into the top 10 either. None of the new releases […]
Movies Opening This Weekend - Fri Apr 4, 2008
These movies are opening this weekend, Fri Apr 4, 2008. Click on a bolded movie title, below, to get a page with more information. Click on poster thumbnail further below to see a larger poster.
My picks for top 5 box office are Leatherheads, The Ruins and Nim’s Island, though not necessarily in that order, and […]
Leatherheads - Filmzee Friday Film Preview
Film: Leatherheads.
Release: Wide.
Category: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport.
Opening: Fri Apr 04, 2008
Director: George Clooney
Writer: Duncan Brantley, Rick Reilly.
Cast: George Clooney, Renée Zellweger, John Krasinski.
Rating: PG-13.
Runtime: 114 min.
Notes: From the trailers alone, I’d say this looks interesting, but I have so little desire to see a football movie. If […]
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