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Crimes And Misdemeanors and The Front are the latest Woody Allen titles to hit Blu-Ray. Both are a limited run of 3000 copies, and were released through Twilight Time on 11th February. It’s not a release that has made that much noise, but we now have a couple of reviews, and in particular the image […]
Woody Allen returns to London for a sprawling morality tale in You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger. With a big star cast, he explores one of his oldest themes, that whatever delusion you can use to get through life makes you happy – or that ignorance is bliss. Playing out over the lives of […]
Cassandra’s Dream marks Woody Allen’s third film in a row in London. It’s another serious morality tale – with not a hint of Allen’s wit on show. Featuring original score, it’s an intense and bizarre film – that ultimately doesn’t work. Colin Farrell and Ewan McGregor star as Terry and Ian, two brothers with big […]
Blue Jasmine has just completed it’s 10th week of release. It has passed $30 million in the US and passed $40m worldwide. The US box office has now reached $30,772,000. It grossed an additional $708,000 in the last weekend. It holds it’s place as both 5th in Allen’s career, and the 2nd highest earning indie […]
Fading Gigolo, the new film written, directed and starring John Turturro and starring Woody Allen, has premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. A great place to launch a film to the wider film industry, it seems to have worked as ‘Fading Gigolo‘ now has a distributor. Millennium Entertainment has picked up the US rights […]
Some history. I started this website just over two years ago. Shortly after we were flooded with photos and info about this film Allen was making in San Francisco. I followed the Blue Jasmine‘s every move, every tip, every rumour and more. That this film still managed to surprise and delight me is a testament […]
The last Allen American film for many years, Melinda And Melinda presents an interesting premise – can the same story be told as a drama or a comedy? And which has more value? Unfortunately, no answer comes along, and the film plods along and goes almost nowhere. An intellectual experiment, with little heart, it doesn’t […]
Blue Jasmine opens at the end of this week, and the review are starting to stack up. We also have the latest clip from the film. The new clip features Alec Baldwin and Cate Blanchett. You can watch it on iTunes We will update this post with an embeddable version as soon as there is […]
Anything Else is a film that should work. It’s modern day New York, it’s modern day love with interesting and flawed characters. There is plenty of pretty great one liners, and the performances go from pretty great to ok. But it doesn’t work – and it’s because everything in show here has been done better. […]
It looks like the embargo has been lifted and reviews are starting to flood in for Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen’s new film. The general concensus so far is the the film is above average Woody Allen, made all the better with a startling turn from Cate Blanchett. Let’s get into it! Excerpts ahoy! Here’s The […]
We are a little over a week away from the US release of Woody Allen’s 2013 film Blue Jasmine. Today we have a couple of new images, an Italian release date, a great new piece in the New York Times and more positive press reactions. Firstly the new images. These come from Finnish film site […]
With less than two weeks to go until they release the new Woody Allen film Blue Jasmine, Sony Pictures Classics has released a new clip featuring comedian Louis C.K. They also held a series of press screenings throughout the US (Boston, Philadelphia, etc) and we’ve rounded up more initial reactions as we wait for fuller […]
With less than two weeks to go until Blue Jasmine gets it’s first release in the US, we have more images, a great locations guide and more reactions from recent press screenings. Even more pictures! This latest selection features Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Peter Sarsgaard and one quite arty shot of Allen himself. San Francisco […]
Sony Pictures Classics just held a press screening for Blue Jasmine, the new film from Woody Allen. As a result, reactions and reviews are coming in through twitter – and they are overwhelmingly positive. Most of the postivity is around Cate Blanchett‘s performance. But the overall film seems to be a winner, with Sally Hawkins […]
So lightweight at times it threatens to blow away, The Curse Of the Jade Scorpion continues the run of disposable comedies Allen pumped out in the 00s. A bright, edgeless cartoon, it has many fun moments but the style and grace of the man who brought us Manhattan is nowhere to be found. Woody Allen […]
Coming straight after Deconstructing Harry, Celebrity is another harsh, angry film. Shot in stark black and white and with a biting, sour message, it is at times hard to swallow. It has its moments but its an angry yell that lacks heart. Kenneth Branagh stars as Lee Simon, a journalist with aspirations of higher writing. […]
Paris Manhattan, the Woody Allen inspired by romantic comedy written and directed by Sophie Lellouche, is finally getting sporadic releases throughout the US and Canada starting 12th April. With it’s release has come many reviews. First the Americans. The New York Times were cold on the film. Lighter than cat dander and just as likely […]
We have just heard the sad news on the passing of Roger Ebert. What can we say but add to the chorus of people paying tribute to a giant of film, and film criticism. There are plenty of great obituaries for those who want to relive the full scope of his life – we like […]
Woody Allen said in Manhattan that art is what living is for. But is it worth killing for? That’s the big question at the heart of this delightful film. Full of humour and crazy characters, but also deeply resonate and with big ideas. It has a style and substance that is part of all his […]
Shadows And Fog is one of the strangest films in Woody Allen’s canon. It’s a 90 minute, black and white allegorical play about death and religion. Lucky for Woody Allen that by this point, it had been decades since he had to pitch a film to anyone. Woody Allen stars as Kleinman, returning to being […]