Monthly Archives: June 2011

Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark screened for LA celebs and movie writers tonight. Online reaction sounds enthusiastic. Anne Thompson (@akstanwyck) reminds us on Twitter that this movie couldn’t be what it is without an R rating — originally earning that MMPA stamp for “pervasive scariness” — and wiki explains why: This picture, which was...

via filmindependent.org Narrative Award (for Best Narrative Feature) Winner: Familiar Ground written & directed by Stéphane Lafleur Producers: Luc Déry, Kim McCraw Cast: Francis La Haye, Fanny Mallette, Sylvain Marcel, Michel Daigle, Suzanne Lemoine Film Description: (Canada) This droll, deadpan comedy from snowbound Quebec features an unhappy brother and sister...

Have heard this described as Blair Witch Project Goes to the Moon. Which sounds like an upgrade to me. Opens September 2. ...

Word is this trailer for Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol will be part of the trailer package Paramount attaches to Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Enjoy it now before the leak is plugged. Some are saying that it looks great “even in French”. (thanks Kevin Klawitter & The Film Stage) ...

Last week we posted a Lincoln Center event where the Coen brothers hinted that they were developing a music-related film but they didn’t reveal any details. Today 24 Frames finds a source who says the script is set in mid-century New York City, inhabiting the Village Vanguard coffeehouse culture where the acoustic folk music revival took place, and is loosely based...

Nearly 42 years to the day since the Stonewall Riots of June 27, 1969, New York State becomes the 6th and largest state to legalize gay marriage. Congratulations, New York! (and thanks to all the straight folks around the country helping celebrate by playing with their 4th of July fireworks already.) civilrights.org, Stonewall Riots: The Beginning of the LGBT Movement Stonewall...