Film Fan Fridays for Friday March 11, 2011

Hello Film Fans and Fanatics!

Welcome to Film Fan Fridays for Friday March 11, 2011!

In limited release this week we have just two releases and both doc and acclaimy, first with The Arbor which sounds like an interpretive biography/documentary on playwright Andrea Dunbar and keeping it docu-ness, we also have the Thursday March 10, 2011 release of And Everything Is Going Fine a documentary on Spalding Gray.

In wide release this week we have 3 releases hitting theatres, all of which are really big. It actually almost feels big enough to be a summer weekend with the big war/action-vibe of alien invasion of Battle: Los Angeles right along side Red Riding Hood from Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke and starring Amanda Seyfried, Lukas Haas, Gary Oldman, Billy Burke and is loosely based on Le Petit Chaperon Rouge by Charles Perrault and Rotkäppchen / Redcape by The Brothers Grimm. And rounding out the wide releases is Mars Needs Moms, an animated family film about a kid whose mom gets abducted by martians.

Have a great weekend!

Shannon

Festival Watch

Canadian Music Week Film Festival
March 11 - 12, 2011 at TIFF Lightbox in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The Female Eye Film Festival
March 16 – 20, 2011 at various locations in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto Nepali Film Festival
March 12, 2011 at Innis Town Hall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Thursday March 10, 2011 Releases

And Everything is Going Fine
Dir: Steven Soderbergh (Solaris, The Informant!, Oceans Eleven, Traffic)
Documentary on Spalding Gray
USA
Limited Release
Official Film Site & Trailer, IMDb Page

Friday March 11, 2011 Releases

The Arbor
Dir: Clio Barnard - feature film directorial debut
Bio/doc on playwright Andrea Dunbar
UK
Limited Release
Official Film Site, IMDb Page, Trailer

Battle: Los Angeles
Dir: Jonathan Liebesman (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, Darkness Falls)
Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez, Ramon Rodriguez, Bridget Moynahan, Ne-Yo, Michael Peña
USA
Official Film Site, IMDb Page, Trailer

Mars Needs Moms
Dir: Simon Wells (The Time Machine (2002), The Prince of Egypt)
Voices: Seth Green, Dan Fogler, Elisabeth Harnois, Mindy Sterling, Kevin Cahoon , Joan Cusack
USA
Official Film Site, IMDb Page, Trailer

Red Riding Hood
Dir: Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight)
Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Lukas Haas, Gary Oldman, Billy Burke Julie Christie, Virginia Madsen
USA/Canada
Official Film Site, IMDb Page, Trailer

**please note this list of releases reflects first run film released in Toronto, Ontario, Canada as of March 11, 2011**