Tuesday, July 31, 2018 at 11:01AM by Nathaniel R
Because Jean Brooks had frequently been mentioned as a supporting actress standout of 1943, the last film I screened for our celebration was Val Lewton production The Seventh Victim. I have only one question: what did I just watch? Kristen Lopez was right on the podcast when she called it a "polite" horror movie. Even the satanic villains are polite...
Monday, July 30, 2018 at 8:17PM by Murtada
I was excited for this episode of Sharp Objects as it was billed as "Camille and Richard finally go on a date." They sort of did, in the Sharp Objects way by visiting Wind Gap murder scenes. But the episode also gave us a glimpse into Adora and Alan’s marriage and a memory involving Alan and Camille. I don’t think we’ve ever seen the latter two characters have any meaningful interactions before last night.
At the end of last week’s episode we saw Camille fleeing Wind Gap after her confrontation with Amma. However this time we start with her changing her mind and coming back. Images of dead girls fill the screen, we get it Jean Marc Vallèe, that's why she’s coming back. The constant cutting between now and the Camille's memories feels played out to me despite the story's dependence on memory. It was fresh and exciting when we first saw it 4 years ago in Wild (2014). Get some new tools, Vallèe!!
I’ve decided to let go of trying to look for clues to the mystery of the killer and just enjoy the performances and the eerie atmosphere that the series built.
Monday, July 30, 2018 at 3:00AM 
Nathaniel R welcomes the panel Yaseen Ali (cinephile), Kristen Lopez (critic), Rebecca Pahle (critic) and Kieran Scarlett (screenwriter) to discuss 1943 at the movies with recommended favorites and our favorite switch-the-actresses around game. We had previously reviewed the supporting actress nominees.
We talk about the three actresses (Claudette Colbert, Veronica Lake, Paulette Goddard) in WW II women's picture So Proudly We Hail. The running time slog of For Whom the Bell Tolls which doesn't showcase Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman well, the hit play turned message movie Watch on the Rhine and its place as a "homefront" movie when the war barely touched our soil, and religious epic The Song of Bernadette which won Jennifer Jones the Best Actress Oscar.
You can listen to the 1 hour podcast here at the bottom of the post or download from iTunes. Continue the conversations in the comments, won't you?
Monday, July 30, 2018 at 1:31AM 
...each and every one a wirgin.
Life is a CABARET is life, old chums.
A three day retrospective at The Film Experience (Aug 1st-3rd)
Sunday, July 29, 2018 at 7:00PM by Nathaniel R
The Mission Impossible franchise (in movie form at least) is 22 years old and just won't quit (and neither will Tom Cruise) having its best opening weekend yet with film #6, Fallout. It's also Cruise's second biggest opening weekend ever after only War of the Worlds (2005). My personal favorite of the M:I franchise is Ghost Protocol from 2011. Yours?
| Weekend Box Office Estimates (July 27th-29th) |
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| W I D E 800+ screens |
L I M I T E D excluding prev. wide |
 Mission: Impossible - Fallout |
 Blindspotting |
| 1.🔺 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - FALLOUT $61.5 *NEW* REVIEW |
1. 🔺 BLINDSPOTTING $1.3 on 523 screens (cum. $1.7) |
| 2. MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN $15 (cum. $70.4) REVIEW | 2. 🔺 EIGHTH GRADE $1.3 on 158 screens (cum. $2.9) CAPSULE REVIEW |
| 3. THE EQUALIZER 2 $14 (cum. $64.2) |
3. 🔺THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS $1.2 on 433 screens (cum. $6.7) REVIEW |
| 4. HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3 $12.3 (cum. $119.2) |
4. LEAVE NO TRACE $499k on 289 screens (cum. $4.6) TRAILER DISCUSSION |
| 5. 🔺 TEEN TITANS GO! TO THE MOVIES $10.5 *NEW* |
5. 🔺 DON'T WORRY HE WON'T GET FAR ON FOOT $351k on 266 screens (cum. $860k) |
