Follow Tucson Weekly - Cinema, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/tucsonweekly4 Fri, 17 Sep 2021 08:28:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOvcl6s0JCAF_KCY3L745TL_ Director James Wan has certainly had his moments when it comes to horror. The original Saw was almost good, while the first two Conjuring films and Insidious were legit scary.…]]> Thu, 16 Sep 2021 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOvcl6s0JCAF_KCY3L745TL_ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOuW7UNUsOXmhV1cWWor9YPv Is the Salvator Mundi, a painting discovered in a severely damaged and painted-over state, then painstakingly restored, really a lost work of the great Leonardo da Vinci? A $450 million dollar bid by a Saudi Arabian prince would certainly like to think it is.…]]> Thu, 09 Sep 2021 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOuW7UNUsOXmhV1cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOuhZXv-WXxFCps0ohxaO6Yr The original Candyman (1992),  was a trippy horror delight, a fun and nasty thriller that was willing to go the distance and remain dark and disturbing from its first frame until its last. The killer concept was birthed from the mind of nutball Clive Barker, and director Bernard Rose did that nasty brute justice.…]]> Thu, 02 Sep 2021 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOuhZXv-WXxFCps0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOsIuXirpbwQEpVjH6qdYdAk Hey, there’s a movie called the night House playing at your local movie theater. It’s a psychological horror movie, it’s pretty good with a solid Rebecca Hall in the central role, and you probably have no idea it exists.…]]> Thu, 26 Aug 2021 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOsIuXirpbwQEpVjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOvD9EZU4khH-uzdsCmHakzH Ryan Reynolds grinds a bit on the tolerance nerve in Free Guy, a mundane movie made for gamers that will leave you non-gamers feeling left out of the party. Some up front honesty: I have a PlayStation 4 that I haven't plugged in for more than three years.…]]> Thu, 19 Aug 2021 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOvD9EZU4khH-uzdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOuHhKEXDmlVxnn9ye8UNv30 It was a good day when Disney got uppity and fired James Gunn from the Marvel Universe for those crazy Tweets he did years ago. He's since been rehired and is hard at work on Guardians of the Galaxy 3, but that interruption in his schedule provided Warner Bros. with the chance to swoop in and get Gunn into the DC Universe for what turns out to be a totally insane—and insanely enjoyable—reboot of Suicide Squad.…]]> Thu, 12 Aug 2021 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOuHhKEXDmlVxnn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOu67e2fLe4ULsb1naedg1wr Riding a career retrospective high after the recent release of director Edgar Wright's The Sparks Brothers documentary, musical siblings Ron and Russell Mael team with director Leos Carax (Holy Motors) for the rock opera Annette, perhaps the weirdest rock opera put to film since Ken Russell's adaptation of The Who's Tommy. The Sparks Brothers provide the music and story involving Henry (Adam Driver), a controversial standup comedian, and his singer-actress wife, Ann (Marion Cotillard).…]]> Thu, 05 Aug 2021 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOu67e2fLe4ULsb1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOsREl1RU5sF-qCY3L745TL_ With 'Old,' M. Night Shyamalan once again overbakes his cinematic souffle and the damn thing collapses before it makes it out of the oven. Too bad, because there are elements at play during its running time that make it occasionally feel like one of the more bizarre, daring and wacky thrillers he's ever made.…]]> Thu, 29 Jul 2021 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOsREl1RU5sF-qCY3L745TL_ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOvmT3uCkQZWduT5HJgy6HUf An important and heart wrenching true story leads to a well-intentioned but middling film with Joe Bell, a "departure" for Mark Wahlberg that results in some of the more uneven work of his career. He's all over the place in this movie.…]]> Thu, 22 Jul 2021 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOvmT3uCkQZWduT5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOvNUckdPlANqHn9ye8UNv30 Have you seen the trailer for Pig, the new Nicolas Cage movie that's seemingly about a hermit (Cage) seeking bloody revenge for the kidnapping of his beloved truffle pig? If you are thinking it's just a John Wick rehash with a mushroom-sniffing swine replacing a precocious beagle, you wouldn't be alone.…]]> Thu, 15 Jul 2021 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOvNUckdPlANqHn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOsb_eNZ3i4neClmFkX7M1Jw While the Marvel train kept a-rollin' during the pandemic with home offerings like Wandavision and Loki (A thousand thank yous, Disney+!), the blockbuster movies have been on ice for a couple of years (Screw you, Pandemic!). The drought ends with the long-delayed Black Widow, a fine sendoff for Scarlett Johansson's Natasha Romanoff, and an even finer intro for Florence Pugh's new Marvel entry, Yelena Belova, Natasha's little sister.…]]> Thu, 08 Jul 2021 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOsb_eNZ3i4neClmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOunzmVRSnkRDsb1naedg1wr In 2015, a Detroit stripper posted 148 tweets that went viral. The tweets told the story of a trip to Florida meant to score big dollars in stripping, but wound up a comic nightmare of pimps, dirty old men, and gun shots.…]]> Thu, 01 Jul 2021 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOunzmVRSnkRDsb1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOs2I4ODfZ19V3n9ye8UNv30 A few years ago, I had the honor of interviewing Rita Moreno before she made her appearance at the 2015 Loft Film Festival here in Tucson. Speaking with Moreno transcended the usual interview exchange and left me reeling with joy.…]]> Thu, 24 Jun 2021 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOs2I4ODfZ19V3n9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOtMfV7UHK7y5pVjH6qdYdAk The films of the Conjuring universe haven't all been winners, but the first two main installments (director James Wan's The Conjuring and The Conjuring 2) had a stylish, creepy charm to them, and some of the spinoffs (including Annabelle: Creation) provided solid exercises in horror. The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It is the third film based very loosely on a "true" story featuring Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga).…]]> Thu, 10 Jun 2021 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOtMfV7UHK7y5pVjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOuqx40NQhuFy5s0ohxaO6Yr In the Heights stars Olga Merediz and Jimmy Smits say their musical masterpiece is the perfect anecdote to a rough 18 months. "It's balanced with emotional and deep moments, but there's a lot of happiness and joy," says Merediz, who plays the matriarch Abuela Claudia.…]]> Thu, 10 Jun 2021 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOuqx40NQhuFy5s0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOssuTdxZrp5gezdsCmHakzH A Quiet Place Part II hits theaters after a 14-month pandemic delay, and three years since theatergoers had their initial, oddly silent experience in a theater watching the scrappy Abbott family deal with malicious alien monsters that attack based on sound. Writer-director John Krasinski made a fun feature helming debut, albeit one filled with all sorts of holes and implausible plot gimmicks.…]]> Thu, 03 Jun 2021 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOssuTdxZrp5gezdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOt_dMI1B2cPcSlmFkX7M1Jw MOVIE REVIEW: ARMY OF THE DEAD NOW PLAYING AT HARKINS TUCSON SPECTRUM 18 (AND STREAMING ON NETFLIX) Zack Snyder returns to his zombie roots with Army of the Dead, a typically bloated, sometimes slow affair that, nonetheless, delivers the goods if you are a zombie genre fan.…]]> Mon, 24 May 2021 00:30:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOt_dMI1B2cPcSlmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOsJ_MgTbq0QRsb1naedg1wr MOVIE REVIEW: RIDERS OF JUSTICE Now Screening at The Loft Cinema Mads Mikkelsen is one of the many things that makes Anders Thomas Jensen’s Riders of Justice one of the year’s best films so far.…]]> Mon, 17 May 2021 18:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOsJ_MgTbq0QRsb1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOud_pBrmL4dS-T5HJgy6HUf MOVIE REVIEW: Here Today Now playing at Harkins Tucson Spectrum 18 Billy Crystal writes, directs and stars in a film that feels like it’s a million years old.…]]> Tue, 11 May 2021 16:15:49 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOud_pBrmL4dS-T5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOt41TkpgZ4C-sb1naedg1wr Zombi heist movie Army of the Dead opens Friday, May 14, at Harkins Theatres Tucson Spectrum 18, 5455 S. Calle Santa Cruz, starting Friday, May 14.…]]> Thu, 06 May 2021 20:42:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOt41TkpgZ4C-sb1naedg1wr