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Synopsis: British comic Richard Ayoade delivers his hotly-anticipated feature debut "Submarine." One boy must fight to save his mother from the advances of a mystic and simultaneously lure his eczema-strafed girlfriend in to the bedroom armed with only a vast vocabulary and near-total self-belief. His name is Oliver Tate. [Synopsis courtesy of TIFF]
Mike Mills' "Beginners" was off to a good start in its first weekend of release. According to estimates provided by Rentrak earlier today, the Focus Features-released romantic drama - starring Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer and Melanie Laurent - is estimated to have taken in $135,190 from 5 sc...
Read More »In "Submarine," the directorial debut of British comedian Richard Ayoade, newcomer Craig Roberts turns intense discomfort into fine art. Playing the 15-year-old Oliver Tate, Roberts holds his deer-caught-in-headlights stare from start to finish. Equally intent on landing a girlfriend and saving his ...
Read More »After two consecutive weekends of some of Cannes 2011's biggest guns debuting Stateside as essentially the sole specialty options (Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris" and Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life"), the indie release calendar gets quite a bit more expansive this weekend. With three releases...
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