Hollywood's recent royal renaissance has been fantastic - but a bit bromantic. The King's Speech centers on Colin Firth's & Geoffrey Rush's close friendship, while Your Highness is bogarted by James Franco & Danny McBride's two questing brothers. The French epic The Princess of Montpensier, fittingly opening at Laemmle's Royal Theatre, stems this tide with the lovely Mélanie Thierry at the heart of its sensual core.
Weekend Movie Guide 04/15: The Princess and The Scream
Weekend Movie Guide: 3D Horrors, Horses and A Beatle's Biopic
It's a three dimensional brawl between horror films My Soul To Take and Scar 3D! The former has the advantage of genre legend Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream) as writer/director, but the disadvantage of a fake 3D conversion and title change (it was known as 25/8 - which title is worse?). Scar 3D has the advantage of being shot in 3D, but the disadvantage of only playing on one screen.
LAist Film Calendar: Jason Reitman, GI Joe & Killer Boars
No matter how hard I stare at my keyboard, I cannot escape the pull of the Oscars. The New Bev welcomes twice-nominated director Jason Reitman for its latest guestival. Since there's no official title for the program...
LAist Film Calendar: Deadgirls, Jewish Women & The Filmmakers Who Love Them!
If you're anything like me, your Fridays are packed with dead bodies. No? Make some time this week to rectify that situation. The Warner Grand's deadly double of The Giant Gila Monster & The Giant Spider Invasion features radiation, rock & roll, and most importantly, a raffle for a dead body at intermission. Once you've won, high-tail it to the Nuart, where the midnight premiere of controversial coming-of-age-zombie-rape-melodrama Deadgirl will teach you what to do and what not to do with your new friend. If you still have questions, leads Noah Segan, Shiloh Fernandez & writer Trent Haaga will be on hand and happy to help!
LAist Review: Swamp Thing DVD Series
So when LAist agreed to review the Swamp Thing DVD that was released on Tuesday, we thought we were going to review an old-school, cheesy, black-and-white B movie. But we were wrong. What we got was 25, half-hour episodes of a not-that-old school, cheesy, colorized B TV series. And we immediately thought two things:
TV Junkie: PBS and Late Night TV's All I Got
A Word or 56+/-: I guess Tuesday's are Ida Lupinow filmfests on TCM - why, god why? How about a Terry Thomas filmfest for effssake? If you want to watch new stuff tonight you'll have to head over to PBS. And hey, Colbert has a "surprise guest that rhymes with Steagle" tonight. Bugsy Siegel? Tonight - Tuesday - June 12th, 2007 Dodgers @ Jays (KCAL, 4:00 p.m.) Astros @ Angels (Fox Sports, 7:30 p.m.)...
Hating Jay Leno
The Conan Countdown goes on and the world's longest lame duck continues to be lame.

