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 dont feature superheroes, spaceships, zombies or Zach Galifianakis? Heres 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.
Harrison Ford says he really didnt 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 baseballs 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.
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.