Movie Review: Paranormal Activity
Paranormal Activity–1/2* Paranormal Activity delivers on low-budget thrills. If that’s what you’re looking for from this sleeper hit of the fall, you can stop reading now. You’ll get what you want here, especially in the final 10 minutes. Enjoy. For anyone else (and I don’t know why you would want to see Paranormal Activity anyway), know this: you’ll be spending 86 torturous minutes with two people you wouldn’t even talk to at work, let alone root for. Watching Paranormal Activity, I understood every criticism I’ve ever read about the mumblecore film movement. How can we watch people of a certain age (mine) on film and not want to walk out of the theater, appalled by just how self-involved these people are? But mumblecore films work on an intellectual level, pointing subtle criticisms at the culture that this (my) generation...
Read MoreParanormal Activity director goes to Area 51 – TFC Morning Report
Top Story: After scooping up more than $500,000 at midnight screenings this past weekend, Paramount plans a major expansion of the Oren Peli’s spooktastic Paranormal Activity on Oct. 9. At the same time, Peli announced he is also making plans for his next feature. The director will create a found footage-style thriller about Area 51. (Variety) In Other News: Gregg Araki’s Kaboom, a film about the sexual awakening of a group of college students, has a cast. Roxane Mesquida, Thomas Dekker, Kelly Lynch and Rooney Mara are set to star. (THR) Lionsgate and Lakeshore Entertainment are teaming for the exorcism thriller The Vatican Tapes. (THR) Mark Wahlberg will star in the remake of the Icelandic thriller Reykjavic-Rotterdam for Working Title Films. (Variety)...
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