It’s perhaps not that surprising that Ice Age 4 shot straight back up to the top of the Box Office chart theatrical release this week, but the sheer volume by which it eclipsed The Amazing Spider Man is really quite something. Spidey took in a still respectable £4mllion but this was dwarfed by Ice Age’s epic £10 million haul. I guess one should never underestimate the all-round family appeal of these Ice Age movies, and it looks set to be one of the highest grossing movies of the year. If the figures keep looking this good, it won’t be much of a surprise when Ice Age 5 : The Neanderthal Strikes Back gets green lit in a few years’ time.
This week of course, that £10million take by Ice Age could appear like pocket change as The Dark Knight Rises finally arrives on the big screen. After months of trailers,...
This week of course, that £10million take by Ice Age could appear like pocket change as The Dark Knight Rises finally arrives on the big screen. After months of trailers,...
- 7/20/2012
- by Rob Keeling
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
All Hands (at the Incubator Arts Project through March 31)Hoi Polloi (the hip interdisciplinary troupe behind last year's Three Pianos) returns with a bizarre seriocomic rite: All Hands, a bemused, slightly spooky (but never snide or arch) look at secret societies and the human hunger for inclusion, conceived by Hp founder Alec Duffy and written by Robert Quillen Camp. The stuffy Incubator Arts Project space (former home of Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theater) has been transformed by scenic artist Mimi Lien to suggest a Masonic lodge: pews in long, facing galleries with a gauntlet down the middle. Here, an unnamed organization — an ad hoc amalgam of Shrinerism and AA — conducts its half-huggy, half-abusive rituals, recruits and initiates new members (all called "Henry"), and, occasionally, listens to its members use the bathroom via hidden microphones. No single character dominates and no single story emerges — it's all about the group...
- 3/16/2012
- by Scott Brown
- Vulture
John Leguizamo, Rosie Perez, Marisa Tomei and the late Justin Pierce, all of whom appeared in New York indie filmmaker Seth Svi Rosenfeld's promising first film, "A Brother's Kiss", released three years ago by First Look, are fully submerged in the Upper West Side Hoi Polloi of the well-intentioned drama "King of the Jungle".
Showcased recently at Outfest and screening Saturday as part of the L.A. Latino fest at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, writer-director Rosenfeld's "Jungle" is as deadly serious but more accomplished than the downbeat "Kiss". Although the market for such fare currently is uninspiring, the cast and merits of this project should garner it limited exposure beyond the festival circuit.
A movie seemingly eager to take on controversial issues and show underrepresented people, "Jungle" centers on Leguizamo's gutsy portrayal of "mildly retarded" Seymour, who lives in an apartment with his politically active Latina mother, Mona (Julie Carmen). With a low IQ and the social skills of a child, friendly and adventuresome Seymour is easy to please and easy to frustrate.
One is pleased and sometimes frustrated to see the film so boldly paint the world around Seymour. Mona is a hothead with a lesbian girlfriend (Perez), and they are heavily involved in protesting police violence against minorities. At one such nighttime neighborhood rally, a cop is mysteriously gunned down, and Seymour is fatefully there to see the blood flow.
Seymour's unlikable father, Jack (Cliff Gorman), avoids his Knicks-loving son, but a rough outburst of violence from an unexpected source forever alters their worlds, and the two come together as a consequence. When Mona is shot dead by a sociopathic goon (Pierce) who resides with a stark femme fatale of a mother (Annabella Sciorra), Seymour is understandably fearful and seeks out street buddy Francis (Michael Rapaport), but there's not much he or anyone can really do to change a toxic world.
In one hellacious sequence at the police station, certainly a medium-mild condemnation of "New York's finest", Perez's distraught character is treated antagonistically by the cops, including a snappy detective (Tomei).
With fragments of memories confusing him constantly, punctuated with moments of clarity, Seymour is not about to avenge his mother. But in the climax, he does get a gun to cause alarm, and he gets to dribble and shoot at Madison Square Garden in an earlier episode (filmed during a real March 1999 NBA game).
In the retelling, "Jungle" is not airtight by a long shot, nor particularly memorable, but the multitalented Leguizamo suits up and plays his difficult character without a hitch. Carmen, Gorman and Perez are all excellent, while Sciorra and Pierce's freaky scenes together are confusingly cut short.
KING OF THE JUNGLE
Bombo Sports & Entertainment
Director-screenwriter: Seth Svi Rosenfeld
Producers: Bob Potter, Scott Macaulay,
Robin O'Hara
Director of photography: Fortunato Procopio
Production designer: Deana Sydney
Editors: Katherine Sanford, Andy Keir
Costume designer: Richard Owings
Casting: Sheila Jaffe, Georgianne Walken
Color/stereo
Cast:
Seymour: John Leguizamo
Mona: Julie Carmen
Jack: Cliff Gorman
Joanne: Rosie Perez
Francis: Michael Rapaport
Detective Costello: Marisa Tomei
Li'l Mafia: Justin Pierce
Mermaid: Annabella Sciorra
Running time - 86 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Showcased recently at Outfest and screening Saturday as part of the L.A. Latino fest at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, writer-director Rosenfeld's "Jungle" is as deadly serious but more accomplished than the downbeat "Kiss". Although the market for such fare currently is uninspiring, the cast and merits of this project should garner it limited exposure beyond the festival circuit.
A movie seemingly eager to take on controversial issues and show underrepresented people, "Jungle" centers on Leguizamo's gutsy portrayal of "mildly retarded" Seymour, who lives in an apartment with his politically active Latina mother, Mona (Julie Carmen). With a low IQ and the social skills of a child, friendly and adventuresome Seymour is easy to please and easy to frustrate.
One is pleased and sometimes frustrated to see the film so boldly paint the world around Seymour. Mona is a hothead with a lesbian girlfriend (Perez), and they are heavily involved in protesting police violence against minorities. At one such nighttime neighborhood rally, a cop is mysteriously gunned down, and Seymour is fatefully there to see the blood flow.
Seymour's unlikable father, Jack (Cliff Gorman), avoids his Knicks-loving son, but a rough outburst of violence from an unexpected source forever alters their worlds, and the two come together as a consequence. When Mona is shot dead by a sociopathic goon (Pierce) who resides with a stark femme fatale of a mother (Annabella Sciorra), Seymour is understandably fearful and seeks out street buddy Francis (Michael Rapaport), but there's not much he or anyone can really do to change a toxic world.
In one hellacious sequence at the police station, certainly a medium-mild condemnation of "New York's finest", Perez's distraught character is treated antagonistically by the cops, including a snappy detective (Tomei).
With fragments of memories confusing him constantly, punctuated with moments of clarity, Seymour is not about to avenge his mother. But in the climax, he does get a gun to cause alarm, and he gets to dribble and shoot at Madison Square Garden in an earlier episode (filmed during a real March 1999 NBA game).
In the retelling, "Jungle" is not airtight by a long shot, nor particularly memorable, but the multitalented Leguizamo suits up and plays his difficult character without a hitch. Carmen, Gorman and Perez are all excellent, while Sciorra and Pierce's freaky scenes together are confusingly cut short.
KING OF THE JUNGLE
Bombo Sports & Entertainment
Director-screenwriter: Seth Svi Rosenfeld
Producers: Bob Potter, Scott Macaulay,
Robin O'Hara
Director of photography: Fortunato Procopio
Production designer: Deana Sydney
Editors: Katherine Sanford, Andy Keir
Costume designer: Richard Owings
Casting: Sheila Jaffe, Georgianne Walken
Color/stereo
Cast:
Seymour: John Leguizamo
Mona: Julie Carmen
Jack: Cliff Gorman
Joanne: Rosie Perez
Francis: Michael Rapaport
Detective Costello: Marisa Tomei
Li'l Mafia: Justin Pierce
Mermaid: Annabella Sciorra
Running time - 86 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 7/20/2000
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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