Trailers and Reviews and Bears, Oh My!

So we've been at this for a little over six months now, and you've probably figured out that a lot of our programming can tend to be on the less than commercial side, and you sometimes have to do some digging to find out more about the films. Part of the fun of the movie experience if you ask me. However, we're trying to be full service here, so we've been toying with the idea of a weekly blog post that posts trailers for upcoming films, as well as a review or two, for when we can't get a screener to our good friend Mark Burger (he did get Micmacs in time - check out his review here). And while your curator has been pushing the Jeunet film (understandable, since she has a giant Amelie poster in the office) due to its limited run, we also have a Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner opening up on Friday, Winter's Bone.

One of my starting places for movie reviews is rottentomatoes.com, which has given Winter's Bone a score of 95%, better than Inception, the number one movie in America. If I had listened to my own advice, I probably wouldn't be watching the alleged Jennifer Aniston/Gerard Butler rom-com The Bounty Hunter (8%) right now. At least that gave me the opportunity to catch up on some blogging. Peter Travers was a big fan of Winter's Bone, saying "It means to shake you, and it does". One of our own patrons, discussing the book this movie was based on, told me he finished the book, and immediately started reading it again. Hopefully he and a few other people will do the same thing after our showings.

You've gotten a Micmacs review already, so I'll just leave you with the trailer.

In between reading this blog and checking out the films, feel free to give us your feedback on whether you would like this to be a weekly thing or not.