Backyard Movie Nights @ 155 Vinton Street
Starting August 2nd

Love movies? So do we! Join us in our Vinton Street backyard for screenings every Saturday night and some Fridays. Movies start at sundown. Bring a blanket or a chair and bring your friends. Donations of snacks, cash, or grilling supplies will be gladly accepted… we’re not rich, but we do have surround sound! Help us enrich our community by participating in these fun weekend events! (more…)

A childhood favorite- Princess Bride.

When: tonight when it gets dark.

Where: Outside Tazza

This is from the Projo, about Michael Corrente’s attempt to find 10 scripts for 10 movies to be filmed in Rhode Island:

“I’ll make the movie, I promise you. If you send me a script and it’s good and it’s done, I will make that movie for a million dollars. Rhode Island’s a great place to be making movies right now.”

Corrente’s ScareRI is a competition offering unknown screenwriters the chance to pitch him a horror-movie script. Corrente, director of films such as Outside Providence and American Buffalo, created an open call for writers to pitch him their scripts and from those he said he would make 10 feature-length movies, filmed entirely in Rhode Island, with A-list actors as stars. The scripts had to be set in one location, with no more than 10 characters, and could not exceed 90 pages, the equivalent of 90 minutes of screen time.

Are any Dosers participating in this? I’m a bit confused as to exactly what sorts of commitments have been made, and to whom. But it seems like a pretty cool thing, and a nice investment by Corrente in his home town.

Update: Dan Barbarisi sends along some details, via link to his first story on this project.

The two comic books that bookended (and pretty much defined) my preteen years are now both headed to the big screen; Watchmen, which everyone already knows about, but Akira!? Hard to believe that Akira originally came out 26 years ago and ran for over 8 years in Japan before its graphic serialization in America. I had the originals, they were lost in a flood. ( IO9.com)

For some people two dimensions are enough, but some of us need all three to feel truly alive! The beauty of the new ‘ U2 3D‘ at the IMAX Theater (I mean the Feinstein-Verrazano Ni-Ro-Pe IMAX Theater or whatever the hell it is) is that you can experience this massive concert venue without actually having to touch any of these people. Shot in Buenos Aires, in what has to be a (sold out) 100,000 seat soccer stadium, the scene is positively terrifying. But it looks very very cool with everybody jumping up and down. Even if you are not the biggest U-2 fan, it’s a lot of fun. Plus, you can get Popeye’s Chicken on the way out *drools*.
The Providence Journal has more on the history and future of 3-D movies.

For some time now, a friend and I have noted and discussed the bizarre gender hang-ups and skewed sense of misogyny in Phoenix movie critic Peter Keough’s reviews. This past week, he truly outdid himself in his Oscar predictions roundup, decrying rampant misogyny throughout the list of potential Best Actress nominees, and finding nary a positive female character on the screen. (more…)

To be welcomed for the inexplicable RI filming of the movie Hachiko: A Dog’s Story. It’ll star and be produced by Gere, and is based on the story of Hachiko, a renowned canine owned by a Japanese professor. Hachiko used to meet his owner at the train station every evening. When the owner died, the dog kept going to the station at the time his train used to arrive, every day, for more than ten years.

I assume Gere will not be done-up into a Japanese man for the filming.

So there you have it. Dogs are great, and a preemptive congrats if they can make it neither a bore nor a sap-fest. (No gerbil jokes, please.)

If you know you hate Beowulf, then there are plenty of other monster-in-the-mead-hall movies to choose from. But if it’s the 3-D/ motion capture technology that puts you off, this is the movie to change your mind. It’s a real cool place to spend a few hours, although transitioning back into the real world is disorienting (and the people in the lobby were a huge letdown). Angelina Jolie makes good use of all dimensions.