Month: January 2012
Cinema Revisited: Certified Copy and the Subjectivity of Art
Certified Copy is a very unique movie, it is confusing, but in a good way, and it’s a hard film to talk about since almost any information given could be considered a spoiler. Let me start off with what I can tell you without giving too much away. The film was written and directed by Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, and stars Juliette Binoche and William Shimmel; it takes place in Florence Ital...[Read More]
Weekend Box-Office: Mark Wahlberg Smuggles in a Win for Contraband
It may not be the traditional holiday weekend, with few getting time off for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday as, say, Memorial Day…but for the three day take, the “one last job” crime film Contraband walked away the winner with an estimated $24.1 million. Though this is a definite drop in overall take from last week, perhaps it says something about the current crop of films that the next ...[Read More]
Weekend Box-Office: The Devil Inside Possesses Box Office, If Not Much Else
If reports are to be believed, many who bought tickets to see The Devil Inside may claim the Devil made them do it, as the film has scored poorly with critics and theatergoers alike. Nevertheless, that didn’t stop it from making a killing in its weekend debut, earning an estimated $34.5 million on a paltry $1 million budget. Things dropped off a bit for the second and third place films, Mission: I...[Read More]