I mentioned last week that I wasn’t entirely sold on the trailer for Jim Sheridan’s remake of the Susanne Bier drama “Brothers,” which played a little too shrill and on-the-nose for my liking. I have no such issues, however, with this superb poster: elegant, unusual and one of the few one-sheets I’ve seen lately that […]
‘Brothers’ poster debuts
Posted by Guy Lodge · 10:35 am · July 10th, 2009
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‘Brothers’ trailer
Posted by Guy Lodge · 12:03 pm · July 3rd, 2009
As someone who was never particularly taken with Susanne Bier’s popular 2004 melodrama “Brothers” — I find Bier’s work too patly earnest to repay real emotional investment — I approach Jim Sheridan’s long-delayed remake with a measure of caution. Judging from this just-released trailer, it seems to hew very close to the original, with added […]
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10/2 Oscarweb Round-up
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 5:02 am · October 2nd, 2008
• Jeffrey Wells reports that Jim Sheridan’s “Brothers” has been pushed to 2009. [Hollywood Elsewhere] • Patrick Goldstein hypothesizes that the year-end Oscar glut is detrimental to quality films and, in a round about way, that studios should forgo the Oscar spending. Gasp! [The Big Picture] • David Poland apparently missed the qualifier “largely” in […]
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POLL: Which recently off-his-game director do you expect to hit paydirt this Oscar season?
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 2:14 pm · August 4th, 2008
It’s been a couple of weeks since we introduced a new sidebar poll — tons going on, apologies. But suffice it to say, “The Dark Knight” beat out eight other highly regarded comic book films to be the readers’ choice for best all-time in the genre. No shock there, though it took more votes than […]
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