After sitting through the seven or eight excruciating trailers that precede most multiplex movies, audiences have a pretty good idea of what will be hitting theaters this summer. But what of the films that don’t feature superheroes, spaceships, zombies or Zach Galifianakis? Here’s a batch of “smaller movies” that could get lost among the blockbusters but are well worth seeking out.
In the raunchy comedy “3 Geezers!” J.K. Simmons plays an actor who prepares for a role by hanging out with the residents of a nursing home. But he quickly discovers he’s the butt of their ribald pranks.
‘Star Trek’ plots and actors’ friendship go beyond the movie.
For decades, Rachel Robinson resisted a movie about her husband, Jackie Robinson, but now “42” has arrived. She approves, with tears of joy.
Harrison Ford says he really didn’t know much about baseball when he agreed to play the Brooklyn Dodgers’ Branch Rickey, but he knew a great role when he saw one on paper. Ford is coming to town Thursday for a special screening of “42,” the new film about Jackie Robinson, the Kansas City Monarch who broke major-league baseball’s color barrier.
Perhaps customer feedback about the cost of movie tickets finally worked at one multiplex operated by Kansas City-based AMC Entertainment. Prices at the Town Center in Leawood will drop $2 starting July 22, when the 20-screen multiplex ends its reserved-seating policy.
It’s never too soon for a Hollywood studio to start claiming prime opening dates for its films. In fact, the 2009 calendar already is a done deal. The heavy hitters are in place and gearing up marketing campaigns designed to separate you from your entertainment dollar.
Which of this week’s movies do you think will make the most money this weekend?
We were shocked — shocked! — to hear that some miscreant leaked a draft of Stephenie Meyer’s Midnight Sun on the Internet.
FORKS, Wash. | Pounding rain and heavy mist are constant in this timber town where logging’s decline left a graveyard of rusting timber mills and unemployment. Businesses shut down. Parts of the local high school were condemned. Families started to drift away.
There can be only one” may be the motto of those crazy dudes with the big swords in the “Highlander” movies, but it’s also a philosophy embraced by Hollywood.
