his time last year I shared my Oscar predictions for the four main categories: Best Picture, Director, Lead Actor, and Lead Actress. The predictions are based on a statistical model that I developed that uses information on factors associated with…
Thursday night movies are back with “Elle” !…great. They are back with a Paul-Verhoeven-foreign-language film…great. It stars the peerless French actress Isabelle Huppert…really great! PAUL VERHOEVEN There must be some film aficionados out there who know that he made great…
Sometimes a film sinks into your psyche in a way that you don’t expect. I wasn’t really sure what I was getting into when I went to The Civic this past Saturday to watch The Eagle Huntress. I had heard…
Regret and revenge are at the heart of fashion designer come filmmaker Tom Ford’s latest thriller Nocturnal Animals. Firmly planted somewhere in the dark spaces between Hitchcock and Brian DePalma, Ford’s film is a moody, and occasionally violent tale that…
~ Eleanor Stacey In the last few years, we’ve had an ongoing dialogue internally at The Civic Theatre about innovations in film and other screen-based media. Personally I’ve found it really interesting to think about how these innovations have come…
My teenage daughters are eagerly awaiting the new movie set in the world of Harry Potter, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, directed by David Yates. I can’t pretend I’m not looking forward to it myself too. Although the…
As far as intriguing movie titles go, it’s hard to beat, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Tim Burton’s latest gothic extravaganza. I mentioned this movie as one of the upcoming young adult novel/movies that had caught my eye in my…
Namaste I have a message and an offer to bring to you: The movie SOLD and a U.N. project Operation Big Sister fund-raiser. The Civic Theatre is bringing the feature movie SOLD to Nelson Oct. 19th through Crowdrising. Purchase your Tickets by…
Hunt for the Wilderpeople is New Zealand director, Taika Waititi’s, latest critically-acclaimed feature film, following What We Do in the Shadows (2014), Boy (2010), and Eagle vs Shark (2007). It sounds like a thoroughly entertaining coming-of-age tale about a troubled…
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