Shoddy journalism and the top 5

The Indianapolis Star today reported that the Heartland Film Festival was opening with a major film, The Boy With the Striped Pajamas. From the tone, it sounded like this was a new thing.

1.) The Boy With The Striped Pajamas is not a major film. It looks like it should go straight to video. The director's last movie Hope Springs did go straight to video and Purely Belter (his film prior to Hope Springs) has never been released in this country. You have to go back to 1998's Little Voice since a Mark Herman movie played theatrically.

2.) The Queen and Finding Neverland which either opened or closed past Heartland festivals were both nominated for Best Picture. I will be shocked if The Boy With... follows suit.

This article was embarrassing. However, not we're going to write 3 separate articles on the new Benji movie embarrassing.


Top 5 for 9/12-9/18

1. The Pineapple Express (David Gordon Green)
2. My Favorite Wife (Garson Kanin) Friday at Indiana Historical Society.
3. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
4. Frozen River (Courtney Hunt)
5. Iron Man (John Favreau)- Made it for the first time probably close to its last week in release. If it weren't for different summer festivals I'm sure it would have made it already (or if I were doing this closer to its release).
3,4,5, and Burn After Reading are pretty interchangeable. But that's the order I'll stick with.