As part of The Edina Theatre’s upcoming 75th anniversary, the Minnesota filmed Into Temptation starring Jeremy Sisto and Kristin Chenoweth will have it Minnesota premiere on Thursday, August 27th. Best news of all, it will be a free screening. Details are not quite released, but within the next several days I should know just how people can get tickets for this premiere.
Following the Thursday premiere, Into Temptation will then have a week long run at the Lagoon Theatre, with director/writer Patrick Coyle being present for a Q&A after the Monday, August 31st screening.
And in yet another one of those odd twists of fate that somehow only happen on this blog, I met Jeremy Sisto when he was in town filming this. He stopped in my theatre to watch Then She Found Me, as he was friends with Helen Hunt and was offered the role of Ben Green in the film, which he turned down due to a previous commitment. The role then went to Matthew Broderick. We talked for a little bit before the film and some more once the film ended. He was incredibly nice and seemed like a very decent guy.
Interesting side note, Jeremy Sisto is the only Hollywood celebrity that I have met that I have seen naked, which is thanks to his fantastic role as Billy Chenowith in the outstanding series Six Feet Under. I did not tell him this, because that would have been awkward. Much like this entire paragraph.
Probably because this documentary film is about overfishing. That’s right, yet another documentary film this year telling us how awful we are for eating things. Though to be fair they aren’t angry that we eat animals, but rather how corporations abuse the animals and produce cheap, low quality food that they can net a high profit on. But honestly, I’m pretty damn sick of documentaries that focus on corporate greed. I think they’ve clubbed me over the head enough already with the subject. And releasing this the same week as The Cove? That seems less than bright. Granted I know these are message movies, and the people that rabidly follow these movies are a curious lot, but I can’t see them finishing up one of these movies then turning right around and running across the street to see another version.
All that considered, the one sheet for The End of the Line is flippin’ sweet.
Interest level: Sinking faster then the Titanic
The End of the Line opens at the Lagoon Theatre on July 31st.
While the famous 1974 Rumble in the Jungle heavyweight boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman is particularly well documented, at the same time as that fight was to take place a “black Woodstock” soul music festival was booked to accompany the fight in Zaire. Featuring a bevy of stars, including world renowned headliners like James Brown, Bill Withers and BB King, it was meant to be yet another showcase for Africans and African-Americans. Unfortunately, the festival hasn’t garnered quite the reputation that the boxing match has, and it seems the documentary Soul Power has set out to correct this unfortunate oversight.
Interest level: Mild Soul Power will open at the Lagoon Theatre on July 31st.
$9.99 is the latest film based on the short stories of Etgar Keret, the previous being the solid Wristcutters: A Love Story. Rather then examining the afterlife, $9.99 focuses instead on the meaning of life, as the film focuses on a booklet that promises to answer all of life’s questions, all for the bargain basement price of $9.99. Complete with a solid cast (Joel Edgerton, Claudia Karvan, Anthony LaPaglia, Geoffrey Rush) and the nice twist of using stop-motion claymation makes $9.99 one of the more eye catching and potentially original films to be released this year.
Interest level: Pliable $9.99 opens exclusively at the Lagoon Theatre on July 31st.
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