The heavy roster of Specialties heading to theaters in the post-Labor Day period is ebbing a bit this weekend. Cuba Gooding, Jr. makes his debut as writer-director with thriller Bayou Caviar, in which he stars with Famke Janssen and Richard Dreyfuss in a day and date bow this weekend via Gravitas Ventures. Sundance fest debut documentary Studio 54 is the second recent theatrical feature by Matt Tyrnauer, following this summer’s Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood. Zeitgeist opens the title about the legendary New York nightclub in, of course, New York, before heading West next week. Vertical Entertainment is opening drama-thriller A Crooked Somebody directed by Trevor White and starring Rich Sommer, while Music Box is spearheading SXSW’s Finnish metal music-comedy, Heavy Trip.
A couple of studios are also giving their movies a limited start, including Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz starrer, Loving Pablo from Universal, while...
A couple of studios are also giving their movies a limited start, including Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz starrer, Loving Pablo from Universal, while...
- 10/5/2018
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline Film + TV
The rarest of items can claim a collector’s soul if he/she isn’t careful. When that item — something thought to be merely myth — is held in your hands, you never know what you might do to ensure it stays there. Some collect for the thrill of the chase, others for the sense of ownership possession provides alongside the jealousy it instills in those without. Which one you tell yourself you are isn’t necessarily the truth, though. We want to believe our intentions are pure, but the allure of victory is a potent thing able to push us past a line we never believed we could cross. This is the point where Alan (Grant Rosenmeyer) and Paul (Ronald L. Conner) found themselves twenty years ago.
This is what derailed them, turning their teacher and record shop owner respectively into criminals. They each wanted an elusive copy of a...
This is what derailed them, turning their teacher and record shop owner respectively into criminals. They each wanted an elusive copy of a...
- 10/2/2018
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Fans of vinyl records and the blues should find symbiosis in Scott Smith's caper comedy Chasing the Blues. After its festival run it was picked up for distribution by Ammo Content who will release the film in select U.S. cinemas on October 5th. You can watch the trailer below. Coming off of a successful festival run and excellent early critical reviews Chasing The Blues will hit select theaters on October 5th, 2018. Written by Scott Smith and Kevin Guilfoile, and directed by Smith, this charming caper comedy pits two rival record collectors against each other as they attempt to con an old lady out of a blues record so rare it was assumed to be an urban legend. When their antics land them...
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- 8/13/2018
- Screen Anarchy
Jon Lovitz plays a smarmy Southern lawyer with knowledge of a valuable – and perhaps cursed – vinyl record in the new trailer for Chasing the Blues. Scott Smith directed the dark indie-comedy, which hits select theaters on October 5th.
The clip opens in a nondescript jail, where Lovitz’s character, Lincoln Groome, visits inmate Alan Thomas (Grant Rosenmeyer), a former record collector once focused on finding a rare 1930s blues LP. “Six weeks ago, a man died,” Groome says. “Jumped through a six-story window with a sheet tied ’round his neck.
The clip opens in a nondescript jail, where Lovitz’s character, Lincoln Groome, visits inmate Alan Thomas (Grant Rosenmeyer), a former record collector once focused on finding a rare 1930s blues LP. “Six weeks ago, a man died,” Groome says. “Jumped through a six-story window with a sheet tied ’round his neck.
- 8/8/2018
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
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