Starring: Adam Goldberg, Felix Solis, Harold House Moore, Judy Marte, Leelee Sobieski, Stark Sands, Terry Kinney, Tom Reed
Network: CBS
NYC 22 is about a group of rookie cops of many backgrounds foot patrolling in NYC’s 22nd precinct in upper Manhattan. They quickly discover the ups and downs of the job and the neighborhood.
Directed by: Jeffrey Fine
Written by: Jeffrey Fine
Starring: Britt Robertson, D.C. Pierson, Esai Morales, Kyle Gallner, Laura Allen, Matt Walsh, Zosia Mamet
MPAA Rating: R
Cherry is a movie about a young freshman at an Ivy League university (Gallner; Veronica Mars) who winds up developing a crush on an older woman (Allen; Awake, Terriers) who is also a student at the school. The two develop a friendship and she takes him home to meet her daughter (Robertson; Life Unexpected, The Secret Circle), a 14 year old who develops a crush on him. Meanwhile both women are having various troubles and Gallner winds up in way over his head.
Directed by: Joss Whedon
Written by: Joss Whedon, Zak Penn
Starring: Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Clark Gregg, Cobie Smulders, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeremy Renner, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Stellan Skarsgård, Tom Hiddleston
Genre: Action, Based on a comic, Superhero
MPAA Rating: PG-13
The Avengers is the culmination of a multiple film and year build up by Marvel and Universal. When earth is threatened by Loki, various heroes must unite to fight to save it and put their individual problems aside to work together. It’s both written and directed by Joss Whedon with an all-star cast.
Posted on April 14th, 2012 by Jason F
Tonight the documentary Hit So Hard: The Life and Near Death of Patty Schemel made it’s theatrical debut. If I’m correct it’s open in NYC only this weekend with a wider rollout coming on April 20th. But check the official site to be sure. We reviewed the movie when it played last summer at a festival, to read that click the link above, and watching it a second time just reinforced my belief that this is one of the greatest Rockumentaries ever made. To celebrate it’s opening distributor Variance is holding some special screenings. The first of which is what I’m going to be writing about here. If you read this in time on April 14th at 4 they are showing 30 minutes of raw footage of Patty on tour with Hole and at 7 they are having a Q&A with Patty, Eric Erlandson, and Melissa Auf Der Maur. I suggest going.
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Directed by: Drew Goddard
Written by: Drew Goddard, Joss Whedon
Starring: Amy Acker, Anna Hutchison, Bradley Whitford, Chris Hemsworth, Fran Kranz, Jesse Williams, Kristen Connolly, Richard Jenkins
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-fi, Supernatural
MPAA Rating: R
The Cabin in the Woods is a classic horror tale of what happens when a group of teenagers venture deep into the woods to an old cabin for a weekend of debauchary. And then comes the killing. Except it’s also none of that. The fact is the true plot of Cabin in the Woods would spoil a lot of the fun of it so it’s hard to really talk about. It’s also way more complicated than any basic plot could capture. It is ridiculously hard to review this movie without spoiling things but there will be nothing in this review that will ruin your experience, but I warn you to be wary of even watching commercials for this film.
Starring: Dreama Walker, Eric André, James Van Der Beek, Krysten Ritter, Liza Lapira, Michael Blaiklock
Network: ABC
Don’t Trust The B—- in Apartment 23 is a new sitcom about June (Walker; Gossip Girl) who arrives in NYC with a fiancé and a huge apartment paid for by her new job at a finance company. Unfortunately she arrives the day the company goes under. Left with no job and no home in a strange city she has to find both very fast and stumbles upon what seems like a dream roommate in Chloe (Ritter; Veronica Mars, Breaking Bad). Unfortunately Chloe turns out to be a real bitch (hence the title), but in her own way she changes June’s way of thinking and exposes her to some truths of the world.
Posted on April 6th, 2012 by Jason F
Community and The Wire both are incredibly different shows. One is a wildly wacky half hour comedy on network television and the other is an hour long drama filled with nudity and violence and all the reality you could want that aired on pay cable. But even to a casual viewer there’s more in common between the two shows than you would think. I’m going to break down a few of the similarities between the shows (and a couple of differences) and give you an idea of why if you’re a fan of one, you might want to check out the other.
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Written by: Lev Grossman
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
The Magicians is about high school student Quentin Coldwater. Quentin is a smart kid that feels like he’s missing something in his life. He doesn’t really feel like he fits in his world and with his friends. But suddenly he discovers that magic is real and he is being tested for admittance to a magic boarding school where he will learn to truly become “a magician”. The Magicians takes us all through Quentin’s schooling and coming of age and beyond into an even more special adventure that even he could not have imagined.
Written by: Erin Morgenstern
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
The Night Circus is a magical book about a mysterious circus that appears without warning suddenly during the night and disappears in much the same way. While it’s around it is only open at night and everything is black and white and it features some of the most interesting acts from all over the world. But beneath the surface two real magicians have been trained since childhood for a battle to take place there where they themselves don’t even know the rules their mentors have committed them to.
Directed by: Jennifer Westfeldt
Written by: Jennifer Westfeldt
Starring: Adam Scott, Chris O'Dowd, Edward Burns, Jennifer Westfeldt, Jon Hamm, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Megan Fox
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romantic Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Friends With Kids is about Jason (Scott; Piranha, Party Down) and Julie (Westfeldt; Kissing Jessica Stein), two best friends who watch as their group of friends have kids and become really unhappy and distant. With both of them getting older and still single, they come up with a plan to have a kid together that they both can take care of and then find the people they’ll fall in love with and they won’t hate that person from having to go through the early years of childhood with them.