Beatriz (Salma Hayek) is a holistic masseuse and health practitioner for the upper crust in the new movie Beatriz at Dinner. After an appointment at the house of Cathy (Connie Britton), one of her clients, her car breaks down and she can’t get a ride back to town from the remote home. So Cathy invites … Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: Beatriz At Dinner
Movie Marketing Madness: Manchester By the Sea
Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck) is more or less settled in his life as a janitor in Boston, far away from the family home in Manchester-by-the-Sea where they’ve lived for generations. That life is upended, though, when his brother Joe (Kyle Chandler) is killed. That’s bad enough, but the divorced, childless Lee is shocked to find … Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: Manchester By the Sea
Movie Marketing Madness: Southside With You
Want to get Movie Marketing Madness via email? Sign up here. Then connect with MMM on Twitter and Facebook. Barack Obama has been good at a number of things, from his days as a community organizer to his being President of the United States. Unlike many people he has, even through the last eight years … Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: Southside With You
Movie Marketing Madness: Our Kind of Traitor
Want to get Movie Marketing Madness via email? Sign up here. Then connect with MMM on Twitter and Facebook. Spy thrillers have a history of putting the wrong person in a situation he or she can’t get out of. That’s the entire premise of many stories and movies, as someone gets caught up in a … Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: Our Kind of Traitor
Movie Marketing Madness: Wiener Dog
Want to get Movie Marketing Madness via email? Sign up here. Then connect with MMM on Twitter and Facebook. One of the best and most memorable scenes in The Jerk is when Steve Martin’s Nevin is packing up and making a big, dramatic exit from the lavious life he’s built up for himself over the … Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: Wiener Dog
Movie Marketing Madness: Genius
Want to get Movie Marketing Madness via email? Sign up here. Then connect with MMM on Twitter and Facebook. We tend to think of books as singular endeavors and achievements. TV shows and movies we understand are team products, requiring scores of writers, cinematographers, actors and others. But when it comes to books we usually … Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: Genius
Movie Marketing Madness: Love and Friendship
Want to get Movie Marketing Madness via email? Sign up here. Then connect with MMM on Twitter and Facebook. Jane Austin adaptations are a lot trickier than they may seem on the surface. While they might first look like straightforward character studies involving studied manners and clearly-defined social norms but there’s usually lots more going … Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: Love and Friendship
Movie Marketing Madness: Touched With Fire
Want to get Movie Marketing Madness via email? Sign up here. Then connect with MMM on Twitter and Facebook. There’s an unfortunate tendency among many people to think that those with some sort of disability, be it mental or physical, can’t live normal lives and have normal relationships with those around them. That’s absolutely not … Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: Touched With Fire
Selling Pretty Persuasion
Ahh, the black comedy. Such an easy genre to describe (“It’s funny in a tragic way.”), but such a hard one to actually make a good film in. It’s said that drama is easy, it’s comedy that’s hard. If that’s the case then black comedies are the toughest of the lot since they don’t play … Continue reading Selling Pretty Persuasion