If it was measured in sheer quantity, the indie and art titles would win this coming weekend hands down—at least locally. There are three of them—and something else harder to quantify—up against one mainstream film. By rights, it ought to be a blood bath. And it will be, but with that solo juggernaut that is The Hunger Games the easy victor.
Author: Ken Hanke
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21 Jump Street
Chico & Rita
Charlie Chan at the Race Track
Q (The Winged Serpent)
Cranky Hanke’s Weekly Reeler March 21-27: Chico & Rita’s Crazy Horse Thin Ice Hunger Games
ActionFest Update: 2012 fest honors fight choreographer J.J. Perry
I promised that I’d report developments with this year’s ActionFest (April 12-15) as soon as I learned what they were. Well, here’s the latest news on the festival.
Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie
The Boys in the Band
Silent House
John Carter
The Party
Rocco and His Brothers
Bride of Chucky
Cranky Hanke’s Weekly Reeler March 14-20: Lean Times
Is there some little something you’ve been putting off doing that didn’t involve going to the movies? Some project? It could be anything from organizing your DVDs to starting to slog your way through War and Peace. You know that stack of DVDs you’ve been meaning to get at? Well, this may be the weekend to undertake any of those things. To say that the pickings are lean is probably an understatement. What we have are a whopping two titles—one of which is probably not worthy of the word “title,” let alone “movie.” The other … well, that remains to be seen.
Cranky Hanke’s Weekly Reeler March 7-13: A Thousand Silent House John Carters with Kids
The fact that the American public forked over $70 million this past weekend to see Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, and another $21 million to watch Project X is fairly compelling evidence that the reason Hollywood continues to traffic in the mediocre is that the public actually likes it. At the very least, the public keeps on encouraging them to deliver the not-so-good goods. Just bear that in mind when you complain about how bad movies are. And we get four new ones to choose from this week—three of the mainstream variety, and one that’s at least sort of art house.