Richard Linklater has a fondness for real time; most of his movies unspool naturally as if they’re happening right then and there in the moment, usually within a day. It’s a neat trick that’s often imitated but never duplicated, as they say. Whether it’s his mainstream debut, “Slacker,” not to be confused with the terrible 2002 bomb “Slackers,” or his accidental breakout hit, “Dazed and Confused,” Linklater understands how to handle human interaction and emotion in real, minute-by-minute situations more than any other filmmaker. As indicated by its title, “Before Sunrise” also played with time, introducing us in 1995 to two romantic ramblers played by Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy who are strangers on a train bound for Vienna in the beginning of the movie but lovers by the end, and the joy of the film was watching most of that happen in “real time.” Linklater doesn’t cheat; there are almost no cutaways (at least during conversation scenes, of which there are many), flashbacks, or melodramatically scored montages.
A trailer has been released for Richard Curtis' time-travel romantic comedy, About Time, starring Domnhall Gleeson and Rachel McAdams as the central, temporally challenged couple.
A new UK trailer has been released for Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing, featuring romance, tragedy and the odd comedy pratfall.
Pierce Brosnan starring in a jaunty, bilingual Danish rom-com rings alarm bells – a piece of casting aimed squarely at luring the mass crowd of fans of the scandi-inspired Mamma Mia to the cinema. But with a film directed by the Oscar winning Susanne Bier there was some hope Love Is All You Need would escape beyond the lame title and questionable choice in actors. It doesn't.
It's a good year for hopeless romantics and Shakespeare lovers on the big screen in 2013, with Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing on the way and now the first trailer for Romeo & Juliet has been released.
In the wake of his success with The Avengers, Joss Whedon could have done anything. He could have made a feature-length version of Pingu and a studio would likely have green-lit it. But rather than do the expected (i.e. another spin-off film from one of his TV shows) he went down an unexpected route and updated Shakespeare, with his own version of Much Ado About Nothing.
In the US, Safe Haven was released for Valentine’s Day. It was so popular, more people saw it and paid more at the box office for it than rival big release A Good Day to Die Hard: it sold an amazing $8.9 million worth of tickets.
Judging from Jacques Audiard’s last two films, A Prophet or The Beat My Heart Skipped, it would be unwise to go into Rust and Bone expecting lighter fare.
Based on Isaac Marion‘s novel of the same name, Warm Bodies follows an interesting story and takes a unique approach to the genre as it is told from the perspective of a zombie. We’ve seen zombies die in every way possible over the years, with directors mixing the genre with gore, violence, comedy, and sometimes even a little bit of fun, but this time around it’s time to actually care about them.
Girls who have been crying into their pillows since Breaking Dawn: Part 2 finished at the cinema, will soon have another reason to get out of bed as this brand new trailer for The Host shows us that Close Encounters From That Woman who Wrote Twilight is COMING SOON.
