So, Reel readers, have you heard about this? Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight, from HBO, is about Ali's conscientious objection to the draft and the ensuing legal battles, rather than the Thrilla in Manila. Local shooting is scheduled for two days next month, so click on through to find out how you can be in pictures!
New this week:
The Lucky One, starring Zac Efron, Taylor Schilling, and Blythe Danner. It's another romantic drama based on a Nicholas Sparks novel, so if you've seen The Notebook, you probably know what to expect. Just don't expect Efron (High School Musical, Hairspray) to burst into song.
You have a couple of choices for Earth Day this weekend. Disney's Chimpanzee and the IMAX/3D documentary To The Arctic both open this weekend. You can say goodbye to winter by watching a family of polar bears survive the harsh Arctic, or you can say hello to warm summer with an adoptive family of chimpanzees in the central African forest.
Darling Companion, the latest from writer Larry Kasdan (The Empire Strikes Back, I Love You To Death, The Big Chill) stars Diane Keaton and Kevin Kline as an unhappily married couple who find peace while searching for their lost dog.
Hello there dear readers, and welcome to the new Albany.com movie blog! I'm your cruise director -- wait, did I just date myself there? Here you'll find short, hopefully pithy, reviews on current films, and perhaps occasional reviews of films that I missed in the recent past but which are available as rentals. In addition, I hope to give you the rundown on the big films opening each week. (And let me know what you think, what you'd like to see here.)
Mike DeCriscio was born and raised on Long Island in Valley Stream, NY. Albany has become a second home to me since he began attending UAlbany in 2009. He is currently a senior and will be graduating this coming May with a degree in English. He will be staying in Albany for graduate school to pursue a Master's Degree in English at UAlbany.
Tracy Fears is a Capital Region resident since 2001, is a foodie who enjoys pickles with peanut butter on occasion, loves dogs but is owned by 2 cats, and has discriminating movie tastes but loves campy B-movies with a passion."
Jay Matthiessen is a native local, with a family immersed in the arts (a respected photographer grandfather, a grandmother and aunt professional dancers, a film producer, music teachers, a set designer, and dress maker/costume designers), it would have been no surprise to eventually work in the field. Yet while young, with a few years training under Vladimir Dokoudovsky, at the New York Conservatory of Dance, and a few minor attempts performing, it became clear some can best serve the arts by appreciating it. While majoring in more mainstream subjects, all free college coursework was dedicated to the arts: short story writing, script writing, science fiction film, photography, journalism, communications, and even three dimensional design, as well as writing for the college newspaper and membership in film club. Like his grandfather, though primarily working in a technical field, Jay has spent decades working in his spare time as a photographer, and has worked for a small newspaper. While a massive fan of blockbusters, thrillers, and science fiction films, his formative years have fostered a profound appreciation for the arts in all it's forms.
Drew Suto, not born, but raised around the capital district, lives in Troy NY with his wife and daughter. He was brought up in and around the arts, and has always had a strong passion for film. As a child, he would read the movie parodies in Mad Magazine and then seek out the actual film and watch it. Over the years he has grown to be kind of a film geek, hosting movie nights for friends to attend and even having a private double feature midnight showing of Richard Elfman's The Forbidden Zone and Takashi Miike's Visitor Q for his bachelor party at a local theater. Currently, Drew has started his own visual projection business that operates throughout the north-east and he still finds time to watch a few movies during the week. His hopes is that this blog will allow you to learn more about films that you may or may not know about.
Amy Wilson spent much of her childhood in the mid-Hudson Valley, but went away to college in far-off Virginia. After graduation, Amy lived in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area where she started working as a web developer. A work-to-live person in a live-to-work town, Amy focused on her interests away from the office, eventually writing for Metblogs DC and polishing her skills as an architecture and landscape photographer.
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