Monday
May282018
Remember When...
Monday, May 28, 2018 at 9:42PM 
...Charlize Theron and Michael Fassbender did that incredibly steamy photoshoot together? It popped into my head for some reason today and I'm not mad about it.
Monday, May 28, 2018 at 9:42PM Monday
May282018
Today in Showbiz History: Edith Massey, Notting Hill, Prince of Persia
Monday, May 28, 2018 at 12:00PM by Nathaniel R
Happy birthday to any May 28th-ers out there. If it's not your birthday which of these events and people will you channel or celebrate today?
1431 Joan of Arc accused of donning male clothing again (GASP) therefore "relapsing into heresy". The heretic/saint has been portrayed in movies, tv, and stage, a bajillion times since. Condola Rashad is currently Tony nominated for playing her in "Saint Joan"
1888 Athlete Jim Thorpe born in Oklahoma. Became an Olympic gold medalist and actor and even got his own biopic.
1902 The Virginian by Owen Wister is published. The book becomes hugely influential in shaping the Western genre. It's later adapted into two silent films, four regular features, and a long running TV series.
1918 CENTENNIAL! Edith Massey is born in NYC.
Monday
May282018
Have a Wonderful Memorial Day
Monday, May 28, 2018 at 8:00AM 
Thank you to all those we've lost and anyone who serves. And, given the dire straits we're in with the country's current immoral treasonous leaders, thank you to anyone who upholds and personifies ideals that are worth living, working towards, restoring if lost, and fighting for. Be your best selves out there!
Sunday
May272018
Last Chance Filmstruck: Unzipped, High Noon, Metropolis, Etc...
Sunday, May 27, 2018 at 8:00PM by Nathaniel R
Are you going to wait for the train downstairs? Why don't you wait here?"
-Katy Jurado to Grace Kelly in High Noon (leaves Filmstruck May 31st)
Y'all. I have a really really hard time with how quickly titles come and go on so many different streaming services. Ugh! I do not like other people curating my movies for me. I'm too much of my own cinephile for that. I want to see what I want to see when I want to see it and usually for highly specific reasons that don't go well with the timetables of corporations! Nevertheless the world is not made to cater to my personal whims (imagine that!?) so I've had to adapt. I have ponied up for FilmStruck and its Criterion Channel entirely because they have more classics than other streaming services. This still hasn't remotely solved all the "where to find things" woes. Though Hulu, Prime, and Netflix are okay for the majority of movies that aren't more than 5-10 years old, everything else remains super-patchy at best and you're stuck with whatever any of these services feel like streaming for you in a given month. This is ESPECIALLY true of movie musicals which literally no service does a good job with. The lack of musicals has always been my primary beef with the Criterion Collection
Enough complaining! Filmstruck/Criterion does have plenty of goodies. As with all the other streaming services they play peek-a-boo with the titles, though. So let's play Streaming Roulette for everything that's LEAVING the service shortly...
Sunday
May272018
Box Office: Solo Flies Low, Binoche Charms, and Book Club Holds.
Sunday, May 27, 2018 at 1:27PM by Nathaniel R
| Holiday Weekend Box Office Estimates (May 25th-27th) |
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| W I D E 800+ screens |
L I M I T E D excluding prev. wide |
 Solo: A Star Wars Story |
 Disobedience |
| 1.🔺Solo $83 *NEW* REVIEW, BEHIND THE SCENES |
1. 🔺 RBG $1.1 on 415 screens (cum. $5.6) REVIEW |
| 2. Deadpool 2 $42.7 (cum. $207.4) | 2. Disobedience $368k on 224 screens (cum. $2.5) REVIEW |
| 3. Avengers Infinity War $16.4 (cum. $621.6) REVIEW |
3. 🔺 Pope Francis - A Man of His Word $290k on 385 screens (cum. $1) |
| 4. Book Club $9.4 (cum. $31.8) REVIEW |
4. 🔺 First Reformed $282k on 29 screens (cum. $425k) REVIEW |
| 5. Life of the Party $5.1 (cum. $39.1) |
5. 🔺 How Long Will I Love U $210k on 23 screens *NEW* |
These numbers will go up given that this weekend is extra long and there's still Memorial Day monday in which families are free to see movies if they'd like. But the numbers won't go high enough for Disney's taste. Now, $83 million in one weekend is nothing to scoff at but for a film within the Star Wars saga it's surprisingly low. Lots more on multiple films after the jump...