CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED – Winner has been notified. Thanks for your interest in Open Road’s THE HOST. ———————————————————————————————————————————— To help promote Open Road’s The Host (the post-Twilight young adult adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling novel), Go,See,Talk is giving away 1 AUTOGRAPHED MINI-POSTER (like the one shown below – roughly 11″ x 17″) signed by the film’s stars Max Irons and Jake Abel. Enter now and this hot little collector’s item might be all yours. Send an email to contest@goseetalk.com with “HOST” in the subject line. Remember to include your first and last name and mailing address in the email. Contest is open to US residents only. One entry per household. One (1) winner will be picked at random and notified…
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Sweet Trailer…'World War Z'
When last we checked in on the film adaptation of Max Brooks’ novel World War Z things didn’t look all that great. Not only for the cast, which includes Brad Pitt, but also for us film fans. It seemed that nearly every message board on the web was ablaze with less than favorable opinions. Commenters complained about the shoddy CG, the fact it looked like a terrible sequel to I Am Legend, it doesn’t look at all like the book (or follow its numerous plot lines) and a few other snide comments we won’t bring up here. Well this new trailer might win over some naysayers. Also, as Olympic-sprinter Zombies are all…
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“What’s New on Blu?” – Week of 03/25/13
Whether you rent or buy movies, Blu-ray offers the ultimate in sight and sound. Streaming is convenient, but if you plan on watching the movie more than once, you need Blu. So, What’s New On Blu? you ask. Well, good, bad or indifferent, Go,See,Talk offers up a trio of titles that are being released each week. Check out what’s hitting the shelves this Tuesday… ——————————————————————————————————————————— In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. Lincoln is an incredible movie and even if you don’t buy it on Blu-ray, you should…
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G-S-T Review…Spring Breakers
Spring Breakers‘ audience will be divided into two groups of people: those who get the joke, and those who don’t. Of course, Harmony Korine’s new film operates on such blatant, overt levels of exploitative debauchery that it’s difficult to imagine how anyone could miss the point (subtlety isn’t his forte). If some still see 1999’s Fight Club as an endorsement of its ideas and behaviors rather than a rejection, though, then anything is possible. But Spring Breakers practically invites mainstream viewers to fumble with its meaning while Korine sits on the other side of the camera smirking; he’s almost daring his patrons to take up his film’s central mantra and leave…
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G-S-T Review…The Croods
It’s not odd or unusual that to find timeless advice which benefits our future we should look to the past. However it is odd that we should find sage-like advice and a timeless tale about family values in an animated film about cave men. Yet here we are getting a “Father Knows Best”, rather thinks he knows best life-lesson in the form of this charmingly witty and heart-warming tale from DreamWorks Animation. The plot of The Croods is standard familial fare; a young girl Eep (Emma Stone) yearns for the freedom beyond the confines of her house (in this story, a cave) and the conservative restraints put upon her by her over-protective father Grug (Nic Cage).…
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G-S-T Review…Olympus Has Fallen
Time has not been kind to Antoine Fuqua. Over a decade ago, he became an Oscar-caliber filmmaker (for whatever that label is worth) after Training Day vaulted him into mainstream prominence on the back of its gritty violence, no-nonsense artistry, and mesmerizing performances; in between then and now he’s output nothing but a handful of mild hits (Brooklyn’s Finest) and flops both small (Shooter) and large (King Arthur). Is his fall from grace an example of success eating a director alive? Was Training Day just an anomaly in an otherwise middling filmography? Giving credit where it’s due, Fuqua’s descent isn’t really due to lack of trying, but the trajectory of his career…
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G-S-T Review…Ginger & Rosa
Ginger & Rosa, the latest and possibly most accessible picture to come from British filmmaker Sally Potter, represents a coming of age for Elle Fanning as much as it does for the character she plays. Structurally, the film is pretty standard stuff; as the Ginger of the title, Fanning confronts or falls into situations beyond her age bracket and goes through the painful emotional transformation from child to woman in a scant eighty four minutes of narrative. But Potter has never been a standard director, nor should Fanning be seen any longer as a standard actress. Amazingly, Ginger & Rosa proves an astronomical leap forward for the latter and a…
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G-S-T Review…Admission
There’s a temptation in writing about Admission to make it all about Tina Fey. This is a mistake on several levels; she’s only contributing to the film in an acting capacity, for one, and for another she’s watchable even though she’s essentially playing the exact same role she’s predicated her entire career on. Admission itself is the product of Karen Croner’s script, adapting Jean Hanff Korelitz’s 2009 novel of the same name, and Paul Weitz’s direction, which can be described as “incongruous” at best. That’s where the real conversation lies, but if you find yourself winding around back to Fey, there’s a good reason for that. She’s one half of the likability equation that…
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Sweet Trailer…'Star Trek Into Darkness'
Brace yourselves boys and girls, this morning (early morning) the latest little bit of marketing for Star Trek Into Darkenss has dropped and is perhaps the most epic looking thing we’ve seen yet. So what’s new? Well, this trailer for the big budget sequel to Abrams’ amazingly well-received Star Trek reboot gives us a glimpse of Peter Weller as a Starfleet Admiral as well as lots more sneering from Benedict Cumberbatch as the villainous… John Harrison. Okay, surely we all know by now that’s not what he’ll end up being called, but JJ, as always, is doing a great job keeping things close to his chest. Enough talk, just watch!! When the…
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ALL PASSES CLAIMED – FREE Advance Screening Passes To ‘Room 237’ in DALLAS, TX
CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED – All passes have been claimed. Thanks for your interest in IFC’s ROOM 237. ———————————————————————————————————————————— Go,See,Talk is partnering with IFC to give 50 Dallas area film fans FREE passes (good for you +1 guest) to an “Advance Screening” of Room 237, the highly celebrated and hotly debated documentary about Stanley Kubrick’s enduring horror film The Shinning. The screening will take place in DALLAS, TX on Wednesday, April 3 at 8:00 PM. Winners will be notified no later than Tuesday, April 2nd. So how do you claim/win them?? Simple. Send an email to marc@goseetalk.com with 237 as the subject we’ll send you a PRINTABLE ticket to your email address…but it’s first-come, first-served so act…