After blowing up last weekend in its limited release of 18 screens, Darren Aronofsky’s latest film, Black Swan will be opening at The Uptown Theatre for an exclusive run (as The Uptown is prone to do). But the big news today is that Fox Searchlight, buoyed by the record setting per-screen average of the film, …
Nostalgia – it’s delicate, but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek, “nostalgia” literally means “the pain from an old wound.” It’s a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn’t a spaceship, it’s a time machine. It goes backwards, and forwards … it takes us to a place where …
With the dearth of new releases this weekend I figured it was once again time to tout the great job the fellas over at The Uptown Theatre have been doing with their Midnight Madness films. One of the reasons I’ve been enjoying it so much is that they keep booking the occasional off-kilter film instead …
At first glance a slowly paced 2 hour opus may seem like not the best of choices for a midnight film but in the case of Oldboy you just might need to make an exception. Sure its long, oddly paced and not much happens for huge chunks of the running time, but its still a …