(Cbr) The found-footage "Paranormal Activity" film series is a machine: since 2009, there have been five films released thus far, with at least two more yet to come. But in the latest installment, the spinoff "The Marked Ones", new characters pick up the camera where their predecessors left off, this time following the transformation of a high school graduate named Jesse (Andrew Jacobs) into the minion of a dark and evil force, as his two friends Carlos (Jorge Diaz) and Marisol (Gabrielle Walsh) try to help him. Spinoff recently sat down with the film’s director, Christopher Landon, for a quick chat,...
- 1/13/2014
- by Todd Gilchrist, Comic Book Resources
- Hitfix
Far from the privileged homes of Calabasas, away from the domestic squabbling of Katie & Micah—and the rest of their extended family—the fifth installment in the hit 'found footage' series gets a much-needed siesta in East La. Recent high school grads Jesse and Carlos (fresh faces Andrew Jacobs and Eddie J. Fernandez) look forward to a relaxing BBQ-filled summer in the barrio. They live with la familia that includes a loveable hard-drinking abuelita and a sassy sister. Carlos got a new camera for a graduation present so he'll be capturing, well, everything. The murder of a local witch in their apartment complex leads the teens to investigate, stumbling upon those marked symbols. The verdict: the...
- 1/5/2014
- E! Online
Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom (12A)
(Justin Chadwick, 2013, UK/Sa) Idris Elba, Naomie Harris, Tony Kgoroge, Riaad Moosa, Jamie Bartlett. 146 mins
Prestige dramatisation finds little to add to a true story that's already inspirational enough, and has already been much retold, especially since Mandela's death. That leaves this as a slightly redundant exercise in biopic box-ticking and corner-cutting, puffed up with awards-friendly grandeur and less interested in the political questions than the personal heart-strings. Still, Elba conveys something of the man as well as the icon, and Harris is a spirited Winnie.
Last Vegas (12A)
(Jon Turtletaub, 2013, Us) Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Kline. 105 mins
If that title and cast had you thinking "is this The Hangover for seniors?", you wouldn't be far off. It's another Las Vegas bachelor-party adventure, in which four decaying dudes cement their buddyhood and lose their dignity – often assisted by people a fraction of their age,...
(Justin Chadwick, 2013, UK/Sa) Idris Elba, Naomie Harris, Tony Kgoroge, Riaad Moosa, Jamie Bartlett. 146 mins
Prestige dramatisation finds little to add to a true story that's already inspirational enough, and has already been much retold, especially since Mandela's death. That leaves this as a slightly redundant exercise in biopic box-ticking and corner-cutting, puffed up with awards-friendly grandeur and less interested in the political questions than the personal heart-strings. Still, Elba conveys something of the man as well as the icon, and Harris is a spirited Winnie.
Last Vegas (12A)
(Jon Turtletaub, 2013, Us) Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Kline. 105 mins
If that title and cast had you thinking "is this The Hangover for seniors?", you wouldn't be far off. It's another Las Vegas bachelor-party adventure, in which four decaying dudes cement their buddyhood and lose their dignity – often assisted by people a fraction of their age,...
- 1/4/2014
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
The first Paranormal Activity, released back in 2009, was a genuinely scary and creepy slice of horror that really showed what you could do with the found footage genre. Being a horror as unique and successful as it was (it earned $193 million worldwide off a budget of $15,000), it did of course spawn multiple sequels, that, while building a nice mythology, lost the magic of original, slowly getting bogged down in formula. There was only so many strange goings on in opulent homes (the series as a whole is an exercise in getting me angry that my house isn't as nice as the ones in the movie), followed by a 'shock' ending we could sit through before the fatigue set in. A shake up was needed, and it comes in the form of spin-off The Marked Ones. Taking a break from the ongoing saga of Katie and her pesky demon possession, The...
- 1/3/2014
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
Plot: Two teens- Jesse (Andrew Jacobs) and Arturo (Richard Cabral)- are playing with their new video camera when one of their neighbors is apparently murdered by one of their classmates. When they investigate the death, they stumble upon a plot involving black magic as Jesse begins to show signs of an otherworldly possession. Review: Over the years I've made no secret of my dislike of the Paranormal Activity series. The first one was an interesting micro-budget experiment, and the...
- 1/3/2014
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
Watch a new clip from Paramount Pictures' latest Paranormal Activity horror. The Marked Ones opens in theaters on Jaznuary 3rd, 2014, and stars Andrew Jacobs, Molly Ephraim, Richard Cabral and Jorge Diaz. Christopher Landon directed and wrote the film which tells of Jesse (Jacobs) is "marked" and is pursued by mysterious forces while his family and friends try to save him. The Marked Ones also includes Jessica Tyler Brown, Eddie J. Fernandez, Carlos Pratts, Chloe Csengery, David Fernandez Jr., Noemi Gonzalez and Julian Works.
- 12/30/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The Paranormal Activity franchise continues with the latest installment called The Marked Ones. Now we have a new clip from the horror directed by Christopher Landon starring Andrew Jacobs, Molly Ephraim, Richard Cabral, Jorge Diaz, Jessica Tyler Brown, Eddie J. Fernandez, Carlos Pratts, Chloe Csengery, David Fernandez Jr., Noemi Gonzalez and Julian Works. The film opens on January 3rd, 2014. Jesse (Andrew Jacobs) is "marked" and is pursued by mysterious forces while his family and friends try to save him.
- 12/27/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
January 3, 2014
Paranormal Activity: Marked Ones
Director: Christopher Landon
Starring: Andrew Jacobs, Molly Ephraim
Running time: 84 mins
Certificate 15
Last Vegas
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Starring: Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro
Running time: 105 mins
Certificate 12A
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Director: Justin Chadwick
Starring: Idris Elba, Naomie Harris
Running time: 146 mins
Certificate 12A
January 10, 2014
12 Years a Slave
Director: Steve McQueen
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael K Williams
Running time: 134 mins
Certificate 15
Delivery Man
Director: Ken Scott
Starring: Vince Vaughn, Chris Pratt
Running time: 104 mins
Certificate 12A
The Railway Man
Director: Jonathan Teplitzky
Starring: Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman
Running time: 116 mins
Certificate 15
January 17, 2014
The Wolf of Wall Street
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Matthew McConaughey
Running time: 180 mins
Certificate 18
January 24, 2014
August: Osage County
Director: John Wells
Starring: Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor
Running time: 121 mins
Certificate 15
Grudge Match
Director: Peter Segal
Starring: Robert De Niro, Sylvester Stallone
Running time:...
Paranormal Activity: Marked Ones
Director: Christopher Landon
Starring: Andrew Jacobs, Molly Ephraim
Running time: 84 mins
Certificate 15
Last Vegas
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Starring: Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro
Running time: 105 mins
Certificate 12A
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Director: Justin Chadwick
Starring: Idris Elba, Naomie Harris
Running time: 146 mins
Certificate 12A
January 10, 2014
12 Years a Slave
Director: Steve McQueen
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael K Williams
Running time: 134 mins
Certificate 15
Delivery Man
Director: Ken Scott
Starring: Vince Vaughn, Chris Pratt
Running time: 104 mins
Certificate 12A
The Railway Man
Director: Jonathan Teplitzky
Starring: Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman
Running time: 116 mins
Certificate 15
January 17, 2014
The Wolf of Wall Street
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Matthew McConaughey
Running time: 180 mins
Certificate 18
January 24, 2014
August: Osage County
Director: John Wells
Starring: Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor
Running time: 121 mins
Certificate 15
Grudge Match
Director: Peter Segal
Starring: Robert De Niro, Sylvester Stallone
Running time:...
- 12/19/2013
- Digital Spy
The paradox of popular culture is that it never loses the capacity to make the corniest of karaoke cliches achingly transcendent
For the first four months of the school, we were serenaded in our house about a dozen times every day with the 1978 disco standard "I Will Survive". This has been courtesy of our ten year-old, who may not have the life experience for an anthem of defiant independence, but definitely has the pipes.
She's not a Gloria Gaynor type, exactly – more like a midget Ethel Merman. A real belter, this kid. When she finally got to perform what she'd been rehearsing, at her grade-school variety show, 400 grownups reacted in the first half-dozen bars as if they'd been Tasered.
Then they started clapping in time with the beat. Wives gave husbands dirty looks. Third graders were doing that sassy-black-girl thing with their necks.
Old Dad had a tear in his eye,...
For the first four months of the school, we were serenaded in our house about a dozen times every day with the 1978 disco standard "I Will Survive". This has been courtesy of our ten year-old, who may not have the life experience for an anthem of defiant independence, but definitely has the pipes.
She's not a Gloria Gaynor type, exactly – more like a midget Ethel Merman. A real belter, this kid. When she finally got to perform what she'd been rehearsing, at her grade-school variety show, 400 grownups reacted in the first half-dozen bars as if they'd been Tasered.
Then they started clapping in time with the beat. Wives gave husbands dirty looks. Third graders were doing that sassy-black-girl thing with their necks.
Old Dad had a tear in his eye,...
- 1/31/2012
- by Bob Garfield
- The Guardian - Film News
Directed by Andrew Jacobs, Four Seasons Lodge is currently playing at New York City’s IFC Center at Sixth Avenue at West Third Street. The film opens Friday, Nov. 20, at the Quad Cinema at 34 West 13th Street. This week, the filmmaker will be present at the IFC Center’s Wednesday-Thursday 8pm shows. The Four Seasons Lodge summary reads: "From the darkness of Hitler’s Europe to the lush mountains of New York’s Catskills, Four Seasons Lodge follows a community of Holocaust survivors who come together each summer at their beloved bungalow colony to dance, cook, fight and flirt — and celebrate their survival. Beautifully photographed by a team of cinematographers led by Albert Maysles (Gimme Shelter, Grey Gardens), [...]...
- 11/18/2009
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
First Run Features
Reviewed for Arizona Reporter by Harvey Karten
Grade: B
Directed by: Andrew Jacobs
Written By: Andrew Jacobs
Cast: Hymie Abramowitz, Tosha Abramowitz, Aron Adelman, Basie Adelman, Olga Bowman, Eugenia "Genya" Boyman, Tobias Buchman, Carl Potok, Cesia Potok, Lola Wenglin
Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 10/21/09
Opens: November 11, 2009
If living well is the best revenge, then living long and well as a Holocaust survivor is the best revenge against Hitler. In "Four Seasons Lodge," Andrew Jacobs hones in on a group of Auschwitz survivors originally from Poland, Hungary and Austria who get together year after year at the same resort in New York.s Catskill mountains to kibitz, play cards, dance, exchange jokes, mourn losses, kvetch, and fight against a decision to dissolve the colony after twenty-six years. The folks are mostly in their eighties, a few in their seventies, one who is ninety-one.a dying breed who illustrate the...
Reviewed for Arizona Reporter by Harvey Karten
Grade: B
Directed by: Andrew Jacobs
Written By: Andrew Jacobs
Cast: Hymie Abramowitz, Tosha Abramowitz, Aron Adelman, Basie Adelman, Olga Bowman, Eugenia "Genya" Boyman, Tobias Buchman, Carl Potok, Cesia Potok, Lola Wenglin
Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 10/21/09
Opens: November 11, 2009
If living well is the best revenge, then living long and well as a Holocaust survivor is the best revenge against Hitler. In "Four Seasons Lodge," Andrew Jacobs hones in on a group of Auschwitz survivors originally from Poland, Hungary and Austria who get together year after year at the same resort in New York.s Catskill mountains to kibitz, play cards, dance, exchange jokes, mourn losses, kvetch, and fight against a decision to dissolve the colony after twenty-six years. The folks are mostly in their eighties, a few in their seventies, one who is ninety-one.a dying breed who illustrate the...
- 11/12/2009
- Arizona Reporter
'You have to be obsessed,' said director Andrew Jacobs, talking and coughing (he was fighting a cold) over the phone about what drove him to make the documentary Four Seasons Lodge. 'If you're not obsessed with the subject, if you dont feel impossibly devoted to it, it's really hard when you have a full time job at the same time and you're trying to raise the money and organize the shoot, and then organize [the film] and edit it and market [the film]. i'm exhausted.' Jacob's passion for the subject was enough to get the legendary documentarian Albert Maysles on board as one of the cinematographers, and he first found out about this 'different side of Dirty Dancing-land' while reporting on the Catskills for the New York Times, where he has been a staff writer for the past ten years: 'I was talking to some people at a bungalow colony and...
- 11/11/2009
- TribecaFilm.com
Richard Curtis sets out to the high seas to rock our world, Roland Emmerich just obliterates it and Wes Anderson reenvisions it in stop-motion animation, while as a group of documentaries ponder real world issues of war, God, poverty and Glenn Gould.
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On behalf of moviegoers everywhere, we here at IFC would like to thank that schoolyard bully who must have so traumatized a young Roland Emmerich that he has spent his recent career ritualistically laying waste to our world one famous landmark at a time. Having previous employed such excuses for mass destruction as alien invasions and global warming, this time cinema's most destructive director turns to an ancient Mayan prophecy that foretells the end of all mankind, and once again batters humanity -- specifically John Cusack and assorted stragglers -- like the...
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On behalf of moviegoers everywhere, we here at IFC would like to thank that schoolyard bully who must have so traumatized a young Roland Emmerich that he has spent his recent career ritualistically laying waste to our world one famous landmark at a time. Having previous employed such excuses for mass destruction as alien invasions and global warming, this time cinema's most destructive director turns to an ancient Mayan prophecy that foretells the end of all mankind, and once again batters humanity -- specifically John Cusack and assorted stragglers -- like the...
- 11/9/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
First Run Features has acquired all rights to "Four Seasons Lodge," Andrew Jacobs' feature documentary about a community of Holocaust survivors who meet each summer to celebrate their lives.
Filmmaker Albert Maysles led a team of cinematographers that shot the film.
Jacobs, a staff writer for the New York Times for the past 10 years who is currently a Beijing correspondent for the paper, developed "Lodge" out of a six-part Times series about summer life in the Catskills.
We're proud to be working with Andrew and his team on the release of their film," said First Run vp Marc Mauceri. " 'Four Seasons Lodge' is unique in that while it confronts weighty issues like aging and the legacy of the Holocaust, it also is both life-affirming and uplifting."
"Lodge" was produced in association with Rainlake Prods.
Filmmaker Albert Maysles led a team of cinematographers that shot the film.
Jacobs, a staff writer for the New York Times for the past 10 years who is currently a Beijing correspondent for the paper, developed "Lodge" out of a six-part Times series about summer life in the Catskills.
We're proud to be working with Andrew and his team on the release of their film," said First Run vp Marc Mauceri. " 'Four Seasons Lodge' is unique in that while it confronts weighty issues like aging and the legacy of the Holocaust, it also is both life-affirming and uplifting."
"Lodge" was produced in association with Rainlake Prods.
- 3/9/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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