Monthly Archives: January, 2012

Zilberman's first narrative feature benefits from a solid quartet of actors, and it could be an engrossing drama if illness and romance are portrayed with the required honesty.

Pitched as a Deliverance with a female cast, we look forward in seeing Kate Bosworth, Lake Bell and helmer/actress Katie Aselton taking a turn for the worse in the woods. And oddly, it's in the woods where scribe Mark Duplass recently gave one of his better perfs (Lynn Shelton's indie trend setting secluded wood cabin locale in Your Sister's Sister). Aselton's debut The Freebie was flawed, but yet scored points for its honest portrayal of couplehood. Glad she switched genres for her sophomore pic. We hope this is uncomfortable as the mentioned 70's film.

With solid samples such as The Trials of Henry Kissinger and Why We Fight in his filmography, it'll be a nice change of pace for Eugene Jarecki, as he moves slightly off topic concentrating on those at the bottom, and not the top.

We believe that the big screen adaptation of Yann Martel's award winning novel had their man when Jean-Pierre Jeunet was assigned to the director's chair. But Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon's Ang Lee is no slouch either. Unlike the huge support behind Peter Jackson's film, in the month of December we're much more willing to go into CGI, IMAX and 3D waters with Lee and that is taking into account his epic failure of a feature in Taking Woodstock.

If Gosling in Half Nelson had a significant other it might come across like this sophomore addiction/romance from Filmmaker magazine writer/filmmaker James Ponsoldt. Making it two for two at Sundance (Off the Black preemed back in 2006), this could give thesps Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Aaron Paul some major post-fest clout.