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CineList, 3.14.13

Film Comments Mar 13, 2013 6:03pm
New ReleasesThe Call (R, 95 mins) 911 operator Jordan Turner (Halle Berry) must face a killer from her past when she receives a call from an abducted girl. Opens wide.The Incredible Burt Wonderstone...

Baum’s bombs: These films are the ooze of Oz

Film Comments Mar 06, 2013 5:03pm
Of L. Frank Baum’s 125 writing credits on IMDB, only 12 aren’t spun from The Wizard of Oz, and nine of those are shorts Baum threw together in the early 20th century. Making room for Wicked, there...

Review: The West Memphis 3 case closes with superior doc

Film Comments Mar 06, 2013 5:03pm
Why a return to the ordeal of Damien Echols, James Baldwin and Jessie Miskelley Jr. now that the allegedly Satanic convicted killers have been set free? For one thing, West of Memphis is far superior...

CineList, 3.7.13

Film Comments Mar 06, 2013 5:03pm
New ReleasesDead Man Down (R, 110 mins) A revengeful woman (Noomi Rapace) uses the only weapon she can possess in a Hollywood film — her body — to seduce the right hand man (Colin Firth) of the crime...
<p>Screenwriter Wolfgang Muchow&amp;#8217;s &amp;#8220;Too Small to Save,&amp;#8221; a story about the foreclosure crisis, has been optioned by Juntobox Films, a collaborative film studio with Forest Whitaker as one of its members. PHOTO: BILL HUGHES</p>

Filmmaker Wolfgang Muchow’s screenplay finds success through social media

Film Comments Mar 06, 2013 4:03pm
Writer-director Wolfgang Muchow’s favorite new small-screen program is House of Cards, the Netflix-distributed political drama starring Kevin Spacey that must be streamed into homes to be viewed. “...

CineList, 2.28.13

Film Comments Feb 27, 2013 5:02pm
NEW RELEASES21 and Over (R, 93 mins) An overachieving student (Justin Chon) goes wild with a group of friends the night before his medical school interview. Or, “The Hangover” at college. Opens wide....

Highlights of our Oscar live-tweets

Film Comments Feb 27, 2013 5:02pm
Martians have just chimed in: Send more Charlize Theron.Whoa. Daniel Radcliffe is all eyebrows, all the time.Wow, that Les Miz cast! A toast to lack of irony! Viva Le Revolution!Okay, they’re dead,...

Review: ‘Bless Me, Ultima’ needs more wonder

Film Comments Feb 20, 2013 6:02pm
Antonio (Luke Ganalon) is caught between worlds in World War II-era New Mexico. The preteen protagonist of Bless Me, Ultima — writer-director Carl Franklin’s adaptation of Rudolfo Anaya’s landmark...

Other banned books that made it to Hollywood

Film Comments Feb 20, 2013 6:02pm
The novel Bless Me, Ultima is regularly challenged (as in: insane people complain about its existence and demand that it be removed from libraries, reading lists and the minds of those who have...

CineList, 2.21.13

Film Comments Feb 20, 2013 5:02pm
NEW RELEASESBless Me, Ultima (PG-13, 106 mins) See review, this issue.Dark Skies (PG-13, 95 mins) Once again, a white family (Keri Russell, Josh Hamilton) is terrorized by something that lurks within...

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