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05/17/2008

Zombies invited to Diary of Dead tonight
Horror movie director George A. Romero’s latest, Diary of the Dead, will make its Rhode Island debut at midnight tonight in a screening at the Cable Car Cinema as a kickoff to the film’s DVD release on Tuesday. Patrons are encouraged to dress as zombies. Admission is by purchase of a copy of Scars magazine or a T-shirt at the door. A drawing will be held for a poster from the film signed by Romero, whose oeuvre includes Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead and the groundbreaking Night of the Living Dead, which will also be released in a 40th anniversary DVD.

05/19/2008

Animated Clone Wars brings The Force back to Star Wars fans
HOLLYWOOD Thanks to CGI animation, the Stars Wars saga is coming back to theaters this summer — but George Lucas said fans shouldn’t get their hopes up about any future films that take the epic beyond the point of Darth Vader’s death at the end of Return of the Jedi.

05/17/2008

Ben Barnes has a lock on fame as star of new Narnia film
There’s a changing of the guard in the Walden-Disney movie franchise The Chronicles of Narnia. The young actors who were the leads in 2005’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and in the new film, Prince Caspian, are giving way to the title character in that second film. Ben Barnes, a 26 year-old British stage actor best known for his work in the theater and a few small film roles, plays Prince Caspian, introduced in Prince Caspian and the leading figure in the next chronicle, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

05/16/2008

Heating up the future: The summer movie season is almost upon us
Summer doesn’t officially begin for more than a month, but already the “summer movie” Speed Racer has crashed and burned, Iron Man has proven its durability, Patrick Dempsey (Made of Honor) and Cameron Diaz (What Happens in Vegas) have walked down their separate aisles and today those four siblings once again find themselves in the fantasy land of Narnia.

Meet Narnia’s Trumpkin
You might not recognize his name, but you’d probably quickly recognize Peter Dinklage from his many roles in Elf, Nip/Tuck, Penelope, Death at a Funeral and his breakout role in the lauded cult film The Station Agent.

Narnia: Prince Caspian a royal disappointment
My moviegoing companion was glad she’d taken my advice and watched The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe before we went to see the second film made from C.S. Lewis’s series of Narnia books — The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.

Roving Eye winners
Winners have been announced for the 2008 Roving Eye Documentary Film Festival, a sidebar of the Rhode Island International Film Festival, which ran for more than a month starting April 2 in venues across the state.

TOP RENTALS
This list of the top rentals nationwide comes from Billboard magazine and is based on data provided by the Video Software Dealers Association.

It’s a big week for Frank Sinatra fans
He may have died 10 years ago this week (May 14 to be exact), but suddenly Frank Sinatra is everywhere what with the U.S. Postal Service releasing a Sinatra stamp and Warner presenting 22 of his films (he made 58 in his long career) in five new collections, 11 of the titles making their DVD debuts.

05/09/2008

Speed Racer doesn’t break any records
What should have been a fast 90-minute spin around the track, Speed Racer runs for two hours and 15 minutes … but seems like seven hours.

A screwy battle of the sexes
Ashton Kutcher’s Jack Fuller is a life-of-the-party guy who gets fired from his job by his boss, who also happens to be his father.

RISD’s best at sparkling film fest
Any longtime follower of the annual film-animation-video show at the Rhode Island School of Design will have noticed a gradual increase in the quality and depth of the works presented by the graduating seniors over the years. This year’s show, running May 14 to 17, is the best yet.

Delicious slices of Dylan for fans only
Six actors — Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, Ben Whishaw — play Bob Dylan in I’m Not There (Genius, $28.95). Except they don’t. Rather, they portray, under different names, slices of Dylan’s kaleidoscopic life, evoking every significant era up to and including present day. Or something like that.

Mamet learns the jiu-jitsu of cinema
David Mamet finally makes a real movie with Redbelt.

05/06/2008

Back to the City
Last year, around St. Patrick’s Day, as auspicious a time as any for a writer with Irish blood to start telling a story, Michael Patrick King left his house in the Hollywood Hills and drove to a motel in Palm Desert, Calif., where he spent 16 days thinking about four women whose approach to love, friendship and money defined the manners and folkways of affluent single life at the turn of the new century.

05/03/2008

Movie-making in R.I. goes into slo-mo
With the General Assembly still mulling changes in the state’s film tax credit program and producers spooked by the potential of a strike by the Screen Actors Guild at the end of next month, the pace of film production in the state has slowed considerably.

05/02/2008

Canvas portrays damage done to a family by mental illness
The tragedy and havoc schizophrenia can have on a small family is portrayed poignantly and realistically in the feature film Canvas, which will be screened at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Cable Car Cinema as a benefit for the Rhode Island chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

Movie Review: ‘Iron Man’ has soft touch with a superhero who comes to vibrant life at the hands of Robert Downey Jr.
The first of the summer blockbuster movies has arrived and in Iron Man the movies have found a thrilling new superhero.

With the industry behind him, Robert Downey Jr. makes good
To become a mega-movie star these days, a man must don the tights. With a few notable exceptions like Leonardo DiCaprio, who had the good fortune to be in the highest-grossing movie of all time (that would be Titanic), almost every $20-million man has done his time as a caped crusader, masked marvel or some popcorn equivalent, such as a pirate or extraterrestrial G-man.

A pleasant Made of Honor
A playboy waits 10 years before deciding to ask his best friend to marry him, only to discover she has just become engaged to someone else in the bubbly, if overly familiar Made of Honor.

They’re Young@Heart — and so is their music
They do punk.

Heigl wears it well in the amusing 27 Dresses
Katherine Heigl plays a woman with a closet full of bridesmaid’s dresses, but no husband of her own, in the breezy romantic comedy 27 Dresses (Fox, $29.98), which is set in New York City but was filmed mostly in Rhode Island early last summer.

Movie Review: Damaged souls drift through “My Blueberry Nights”
The road to romantic recovery is meandering, far-flung and thousands of miles long in My Blueberry Nights, Wong Kar Wai’s first English-language film.