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It’s autumn in Philadelphia, and Mom picks up Pat Solatano (Bradley Cooper) from a mental hospital — he was checked in after a breakdown he had when he caught his wife cheating. As we follow Pat’s tough but at times humorous journey, it’s clear that this is a formulaic romance. It brings nothing new to the genre and is at times predictable — but that’s not to say it isn’t superbly acted or genuinely heartwarming.
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THE CAMPAIGN (2012) Will Ferrell and Zach Galifinakis respectively star as an incumbent North Carolina congressman and his goofy, inexperienced challenger in this comedy from this past summer. This well–received satire even has a cameo from Uggie, canine star of “The Artist”! The Lesson: The obvious candidate isn’t always the winner! Super inspirational for Green Party candidate Jill Stein!
Street: In the film, you play a high school teacher who decides to become a mixed martial arts fighter to save the school’s music program. What was it like training for such a physically demanding role? KJ: It was tough, I gotta be honest. It was hard. I had to change up my diet. I worked out like three times a day with professional fighters. It was good. I got a lot of lumps from it, but ultimately, we needed it for the believability of the fight scenes.
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Writer–director–actor Josh Radnor (“How I Met Your Mother”) takes moviegoers back to school in "Liberal Arts," an indie comedy featuring Elizabeth Olsen and Zac Efron. Fully shot at Radnor’s alma mater, Ohio's Kenyon College, it captures the glory of college life on a campus quite different than Penn’s.
Since “The Perks of Being A Wallflower” hit bookshelves in 1999, it has continuously inspired young adults in the midst of their angsty, transitional mid–teens. The novel, told in a series of letters to an anonymous reader, deals with common issues of adolescence – experimenting with sex, drug usage, sexuality and more – through the eyes of shy high school freshman Charlie. The film version of "Wallflower," written and directed by its author, Stephen Chbosky, is the most faithful adaptation of a book since Louis Sachar's "Holes."
Summer is the season to get studio executives richer. Hollywood’s offerings during the out–of–school months generally gross the most, even if the hits’ artistic qualities are lacking. By all accounts, this summer was slated to shatter more records than ever. While certain films knocked it out of the park, the number of box office duds brought total ticket sales down 4% from last summer. And that’s not even including perpetually increasing admission prices. Let’s take a look at what went right and what went wrong at the cinema this summer:
Kevin Hudson, a junior English major and literary chair of the Alpha Delta Phi Society, spent five weeks in Sweden and France this summer making a film. The movie, tentatively called “Sara,” is Hudson’s first feature–length film. It is currently being edited and will hopefully be finished by winter break.
Following the first mind–blowing trailer released online in July, a two and a half minute theatrical trailer for The Wachowskis’ ("The Matrix" series) upcoming epic drama "Cloud Atlas" has hit the web. It’s shorter but equally confusing, and that’s probably on purpose. While the trailer doesn’t signify whether this film, based on a 2004 novel of the same name, will be a discombobulated mess or brilliant Oscar-winning psychological masterpiece, its trailer is intriguing, to say the least.
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Back in the day, movie musicals were gaudy but good. People spontaneously broke out in choreographed, catchy songs, but not in an annoying Glee way. Van Pelt is a little–known gold mine for these Broadway adaptations, so where better to start than the classic tale of everyone’s favorite ginger orphan? You may have seen it when you were Annie’s age, but it’s worth it to rediscover the “Hard Knock Life” the orphans lead in New York during the Great Depression (FDR’s in it!) under the reign of Miss Hannigan (a hilarious, boozy Carol Burnett). Hannigan’s scheming, along with Rooster and Lily (Tim Curry and Bernadette Peters), is as entertaining as ever and Daddy Warbucks’ Fifth Avenue mansion is still awe–inspiring. So let the nostalgia take over as you hum along -— maybe the sun’ll come out tomorrow.
The townhouses at 2008 and 2010 Delancey Pl. are nestled in a quiet, upscale and largely residential Rittenhouse Square neighborhood. Baby strollers are parked on stoops of the surrounding residences. Fancy cars sit silently on the clean side streets and young, wealthy parents walk their golden retrievers. But amongst the domestic affluence lie these two townhouses, which together compose the Rosenbach Museum & Library.
It all happened so quickly. I absentmindedly opened my browser to check my email and there it was on People.com. Breaking News: Whitney Houston is Dead. My heart sank. She was so young! This was so sudden! She had such a phenomenal voice and she was, like, every current pop diva’s main inspiration.
It was recently announced that Marilyn Monroe inspires Lindsay Lohan’s upcoming Playboy spread, which features “very classy” full–frontal nudity.
It’s not a good sign when the only laughs a film gets are during the should–be–romantic lip–lock scenes. But that’s just how little chemistry Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried have in director and writer Andrew Niccol’s new sci-fi thriller, In Time.
It’s 1 p.m. in mid–October and you’re surfing channels instead of going to class. You stumble upon the Disney Channel and vaguely recognize a few characters from your youth. 90 minutes later, as the credits roll, you can’t help but wonder, “Why was that movie almost good?”
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