It’s to be called Happy Valley, and it promises to be an in-depth and wrenching documentary about Jerry Sandusky, the Nittany Lions assistant football coach charged in a wide-reaching sexual abuse case that rocked the Penn State community when it was uncovered last year. Amir Bar-Lev, director of the riveting doc about former NFL star and Afghan war casualty Pat Tillman, and also director of the award-winning My Kid Could Paint That, is working on the project with his longtime producer partner, John Battsek. Sandusky faces 52 criminal counts for alleged sexual misconduct involving boys. He has denied the allegations. The trial is set to start next month.
» More Penn State/Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal to be documentarized
The sketch comedy/improv troupe Upright Citizens Brigade have a brand new dance movie, Freak Dance, playing in just a few cities around the country right now, and Philly’s one of them. Tuesday through Saturday, May 22 through May 26, head for the Philly Improv Theater ‘s home at The Shubin Theater, 407 Bainbridge St., in Queen Village.
» More 'Freak Dance -- The Movie' playing exclusively in Philly – this week!
Jay-Z thinks he's gonna like it here. And he thinks the sun will come out tomorrow. Even if he thinks it's a hard knock life.
Remember when James Van Der Beek was in Philly? Here's why.
» More See the trailer for Philly-shot rowing film 'Backwards'
Smells like team spirit.... It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to figure this out: If your movie has made $702 million in worldwide ticket sales in its first couple of weeks’ release, as the Disney/Marvel Studios’ superhero smash-up The Avengers has done, then a sequel is in order. And maybe another one after that.
» More The expanding Marvel Universe: sequels and spinoffs for years to come.
Maurice Sendak -- who died Tuesday, age 83, leaving behind a wealth of words and drawings that will live on and on -- had invited the visionary music video maker turned filmmaker Spike Jonze to try his hand at adapting what is perhaps Sendak's best known book, Where the Wild Things Are.
In the summer months, Hollywood is often accused of doing the same thing, over and over and over again. Well, that all changes this summer.
In Sound of My Voice, an eerie indie thriller starring (and co-written by) Brit Marling, a woman who claims to be from the future sets down in Southern California, and starts preaching to a small core of devotees. She has seen the apocalypse, and she is here to teach believers how to survive. Being led blindfolded and shackled to her house, scrubbing down, donning hospital gowns and learning a secret handshake are all part of the process.
» More Cult movies – as in movies about cults – creep us out!
There are hallway walk-and-talks, and gym locker showdowns, and ruminations about romance, to be sure, but also weightier stuff, too: stories of living with cystic fibrosis, about racial tensions, about the discovery of a grandfather's World War II diary.
We were deeply saddened by the news that legendary Band singer/drummer Levon Helm passed away today. While Helm will forever be known as one of the best timekeepers of ever, he also left his mark on the silver screen. Helm brought a certain Southern strength to movies he was in, like a character actor version of Tommy Lee Jones (in fact, Helm would act with Jones a few times, including "Coal Miner's Daughter," Jones' feature directorial debut "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada" and in Helm's final film "In the Electric Mist").
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