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Thursday, March 26, 2015
Film / Film News Opening Friday
Posted By Matt Brunson on Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 2:22 PM
- Sony Pictures Classics
- Wild Tales
Get Hard - Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart
Home - Animated; voices of Jim Parsons, Rihanna
It Follows - Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist
Queen and Country - Caleb Landry Jones, David Thewlis
Wild Tales - Academy Award nominee: Best Foreign Language Film
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Film / Film News Opening Friday
Posted By Matt Brunson on Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 3:46 PM
- Magnolia Pictures
- Ballet 422
Ballet 422 - Documentary
Insurgent: The Divergent Series - Shailene Woodley, Theo James
Do You Believe? - Mira Sorvino, Lee Majors
- Music Box Films
- Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem - Ronit Elkabetz, Simon Abkarian
The Gunman - Sean Penn, Idris Elba
'71 - Jack O'Connell, Sam Reid
Thursday, March 12, 2015
Film / Film News Opening Friday
Posted By Matt Brunson on Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 3:43 PM
- Sony Pictures Classics
- Leviathan
Cinderella - Lily James, Cate Blanchett
Leviathan - Academy Award nominee: Best Foreign Language Film
Run All Night - Liam Neeson, Ed Harris
Thursday, March 5, 2015
Film / Film News Opening Friday
Posted By Matt Brunson on Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 11:47 AM
- Columbia
- Chappie
Chappie - Dev Patel, Hugh Jackman
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - Dev Patel, Judi Dench
Unfinished Business - Vince Vaughn, Tom Wilkinson
Thursday, February 26, 2015
Film / Film News Opening Friday
Posted By Matt Brunson on Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 4:45 PM
- Relativity Media
- The Lazarus Effect
Focus - Will Smith, Margot Robbie
The Lazarus Effect - Olivia Wilde, Mark Duplass
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Film / Film News Oscar talk on Charlotte Talks
Posted By Web Editor on Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 1:00 PM
- Sony Pictures Classics
- Host Mike Collins (left) warns critic Sean O'Connell not to mess up during the taping of Charlotte Talks
The 87th Annual Academy Awards will be held Feb. 22, and, as always, local film reviewers will appear opposite host Mike Collins on Charlotte Talks to offer their preferences and predictions in the major races. Creative Loafing film critic Matt Brunson and CinemaBlend.com's Sean O'Connell will discuss the various contenders, including Birdman, Boyhood and Whiplash.
This edition of Charlotte Talks will air at 9 a.m. Friday, Feb. 20, on WFAE 90.7 FM. The broadcast will then be archived at www.wfae.org.
Film / Film News Opening Friday
Posted By Matt Brunson on Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 12:10 PM
- Sony Pictures Classics
- Mr. Turner
The DUFF - Mae Whitman, Bella Thorne
Hot Tub Time Machine 2 - Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson
McFarland, USA - Kevin Costner, Maria Bello
Mr. Turner - Timothy Spall, Marion Bailey
Monday, February 16, 2015
Film / Film Reviews Ranking The Major Oscar Contenders
Posted By Matt Brunson on Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 2:21 PM
The 87th Annual Academy Awards ceremony is less than a week away — next Sunday, to be exact — so here's your last chance to catch the top contenders, either in the theater or at home. Below, listed in preferential order, are the 17 films nominated in at least one of the eight major categories (Picture, Director, acting, writing). Click on the title to access the review.
Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) - ****
Boyhood - ****
The Grand Budapest Hotel - ***1/2
The Imitation Game - ***1/2
Selma - ***1/2
Wild - ***1/2
Two Days, One Night - ***1/2
Foxcatcher - ***1/2
Gone Girl - ***
The Theory of Everything - ***
Still Alice - ***
Inherent Vice - ***
Nightcrawler - ***
Whiplash - ***
Into the Woods - **1/2
American Sniper - **1/2
The Judge - **
Thursday, February 12, 2015
Film / Arts Circles screening to raise HIV/AIDS awareness
Posted By Kaila Burtch on Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 4:48 PM
According to the N.C. Division of Public Health's 2013 report on AIDS, HIV and STDs, the percentage of African-American males in North Carolina being diagnosed with HIV yearly keeps rising. Its jumped from 46 percent to 49 percent since 2009. Scary, huh?
To raise awareness for HIV/AIDS in the black community, Johnson C. Smith University is hosting a screening of Circles on Feb. 13.
Circles - Teaser Trailer from DigiBees on Vimeo.
The film, released in 2013 by Tigereye Films, is a provocative drama that highlights the epidemic through characters that ignore the seriousness of safe sex and face the aftermath of unfortunate consequences.
Producer Tricia Woodgett will lead a discussion after the film screening, which goes down at 3 p.m. in Grimes Lounge. Health prevention organizations will also be on-site administering free HIV tests for folks who want to be tested.
Film / Film News Opening Friday
Posted By Matt Brunson on Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 11:00 AM
- Universal
- Fifty Shades of Grey
Fifty Shades of Grey - Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan
Kingsman: The Secret Service - Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson
Still Alice - Julianne Moore, Kristen Stewart
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