We've got your online exclusive first look at two new posters — and, technically, trailers — for Sundance hit Martha Marcy May Marlene. (In theaters Oct. 21.) The drama stars Elizabeth Olsen, younger sister of Mary-Kate and Ashley, as Martha (a.k.a. Marcy May, a.k.a. Marlene), a damaged woman who struggles to reassimilate with her family after fleeing a cult. Winter's Bone Oscar nominee John Hawkes co-stars as the cult leader. The posters feature QR codes, which you scan with your smartphone for access to exclusive trailers. Read More...
On Friday morning, first-time feature director Wes Ball was sweating bullets. His debut film was opening and he was nervous despite the early positive numbers that were already flooding into the box office reporters. “I just don’t want anything to go wrong,” said the young filmmaker in an interview for Entertainment Weekly Radio. Well, clearly nothing has gone awry with the director’s first entre into feature filmmaking. For the male-populated young adult adaptation of James Dashner’s best-selling novel The Maze Runner racked up an estimated $32. Read More...
Watching last night’s particularly riveting episode of Medium, in which Patricia Arquette’s Allison Dubois gets Gloria Gaynor’s ”I Will Survive” stuck in her head, one scene in particular got lodged in my noggin — and it made me realize there’s no show on network TV that better depicts the details of modern family life. As Allison’s family heads out of the house for a weekend trip to Salt Lake City, her husband Joe (Jake Weber) frantically rushes through their cluttered house to close the shades and check the windows. Read More...
