Monthly Archives: October 2011
An smart indie like Margin Call will sadly never get the wide expansion to saturate multiplexes in outlying towns across the country. Thanks to Nick for reminding us that it will be available on iTunes in a few weeks — it’s listed for preorder now, with an ETA release date of December 20. (Two posts about Margin Call in the space of 12 hours? Yes, it’s...
A few happenings on the web related to the sleeping dog that is the Oscar race. We wait, we wait, we wait. In Contention reports that Hans Zimmer has bowed out of the Oscar race this year and will not submit to it. Who can blame him by this point? So, why is Zimmer choosing to pass on a potential tenth trip to the ball (and second Oscar statuette)? Well, as he tells...
When Michael Fassbender, Viggo Mortensen, and David Cronenberg appear in a photo together I feel it is my duty to show it you, dear readers. They are in London promoting Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method, an intriguing film about Freud, Jung and the woman in between – repression unleashed! Not to be gross or anything but if I had my choice of these three...
Last year Roadside Attractions brought us Winter’s Bone and Biutiful. This year they’re handling distribution for Albert Nobbs, Project Nim, and this weekend deliver the biggest under-the-radar surprise of the month. Margin Call opened in limited release just a few days after being nominated for Best Ensemble by the Gotham Awards. Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany,...