In 20th Century Fox’ “Win Win”, Paul Giamatti stars as Mike Flaherty a small town lawyer struggling to support his family. Moonlighting as a high school wrestling coach, stumbles across a star athlete (Alex Shafer) through some questionable business dealings while trying to make ends meet. Just as it looks like he will get a double payday, the boy’s troubled mother (Melanie Lynskey) shows up fresh from rehab and flat broke, threatening to derail everything. [...]
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A new documentary film about one of the great drivers in Formula One racing history, Brazil’s Ayrton Senna is now out in limited release including the Los Angeles Film Festival this week. The movie, which will go wider in August, takes you inside the sport with brilliant on-board cameras as well as the politics and rivalries that were part of the three-time world champion’s world. [...] Most film festivals seek to showcase best of the up-and-coming. Not Turner Classic Movies. The TCM Classic Film Festival is back with more than 70 screenings, as well as special introductions, guest appearances, panel discussions and other events revolving around the all-time classics of cinema. [...] ESPN is now offering on DVD the remaining 15 of the 30 films from its original slate in the highly acclaimed “30 for 30″ series. [...] With Sundance underway and Oscar nominations revealed, time to look at a small movie gem that recently played at the Palm Springs International Film Festival based on the life of one of the all-time great distance runners. [...] The curtain has fallen on a new and compelling “television film festival”. ESPN has just concluded its opening run of thirty engaging and provocative movies, premiering 14 months ago. Meticulous and sharply observed, this “30 for 30” project has been as ambitious an undertaking as anything the network has done. [...] As part of ESPN’s “30 for 30” film initiative celebrating the network’s 30th anniversary comes this documentary from rapper-turned-filmmaker Ice Cube. The program debuts on ESPN Tuesday at 8pm ET. [...] Beginning tomorrow and running for a week and a half more than 200 films from 30 countries, including sneak previews from major studios and summer specialty releases will be presented in some of the finest theaters in Los Angeles. Major releases debuting at the festival are “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” from Michael Bay and Johnny Depp starring as the Depression-era outlaw John Dillinger in “Public Enemies”. [...] |
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