REVIEW: Midtown Art Cinema

Midtown Art Cinema is one of about three theaters in Atlanta that plays independent films and those with small releases — stuff like “The Wrestler” or “Che” or “Pan’s Labyrinth.” It’s also part of Landmark Theatres, a national, corporatized chain of similar cinemas.

Emory publishes ratings study, discovers parents deserve tack hammer to forehead

Emory University’s Journal of Family Life published a new study on parents and their opinion of U.S. movie ratings. Their verdict?

Watch ‘Gorillas in the Mist’ with Sigourney Weaver, wishing it was ‘Alien’… or ‘Copycat’

The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund is hosting its second fundraiser at which you pay $20 to see the 1988 drama “Gorillas in the Mist” about gorillas… chilling out in mist. (It’s a pretty good title, though.) Sigourney Weaver will also be there representing all the endangered primates and whatnot.

Atlanta friggin’ loves Tyler Perry

Wowsers. Atlanta unabashedly, unquestionably and unequivocally loves Tyler Perry. Pictured above are all the playing times for Perry’s “I Can Do Bad All By Myself” at Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 16 in downtown Atlanta today. That’s a new showing every half hour.

Perry named to Vanity Fair’s ‘New Establishment’

Atlanta’s probably sole legitimate filmmaker, Tyler Perry, made Vanity Fair’s “New Establishment” list, which claims to be the best list of the country’s most important leaders or whatever. If you actually sit down and read this list, very little of it makes sense. (How the crap is Ari Emanuel the 67th most important leader in the country? The dude is more well known as a fake version of himself on “Entourage” than… himself… his actual, sentient self.)