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Entries from Phillyist tagged with 'guypearce'

April 6, 2007

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend. Philadelphia Film Festival - We've mentioned this once or twice. It's here again! All kinds of movies at all kinds of venues around the city. Take a look at the website for more details. Most Likely to Rule: Grindhouse - There's not much we can say about this movie we haven't already said. It's an homage to the titular gritty, extreme '70s-era genre, and consists of......

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February 14, 2007

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. It's been a while since we linked to Monkeys In the News, so please enjoy this picture of a howler monkey on a toilet, as well as this particularly astounding photo of a monkey which is on a goat which is on a tiny platform which is balanced on a highwire. We had some Oscar odds for you a while back,......

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February 9, 2007

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend. Breaking and Entering - Oh no! Another movie about three people whose lives intersect! Still, this one does sound rather intriguing, as it features Jude Law as a landscape architect who decides to start investigating the repeated thefts at his state-of-the-art offices in inner-city King's Cross (a seedy area of town he's trying to help rejuvenate), and ends up stumbling outside the confines of his familiar......

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April 8, 2006

Film: The Proposition Future Screenings: None The Proposition is an odd film. I suspected it would be right away, of course, when I read that it was a violent anti-Western set in 19th century colonial Australia and written by musician Nick Cave (who also worked on the soundtrack, natch). There's nothing about that description I didn't love; and when I read the cast list, which featured Guy Pearce, John Hurt, Ray Winstone, and Emily Watson,......

Continue Reading "Jim's Film Festival Diary for Friday, April 7th"

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