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Bucks natives, others, start online film ’zine

By Ainsley Maloney

Philly EDGE Correspondent

Halfway through production of their short film Brotherhood, an actor that Bucks County natives Liz O'Leary and Dan Magro hired for a role didn't show. Turns out, they say, it wasn't just their schedule he was ignorant of, but the legal blood alcohol limit as well: he was in jail.

Old school cinema

All of these ’burbs theaters provide a throwback movie experience with dining, shopping, parking and “downtowns” all only a few steps away.

Hiway Theatre
(212 Old York Rd., Jenkintown 215.886.9800)
www.hiwaytheatre.org

Jenkintown will have to wait a little longer for its close-up.

Scene of the shooting

Irv “Movie Irv” Slifkin, whose nickname is cool enough to be that of a character in a Tarantino film, knows movies like Raymond Babbitt knew numbers. In Rain Man fashion, he cites that he’s seen 7,377 films (as of the printing of his book’s press materials).

He knows Philly movies even better. That’s why he compiled Filmadelphia: A Celebration of a City’s Movies.

The book, available in places where books are sold (and sometimes coffee, scones and those cool journals), lists details of the movies you know about (Rocky, Philadelphia, M. Night’s flicks) and some you may not (Dressed To Kill, Stealing Home), all of which were filmed in and around Philly.

Fine Wine

Bill’s Top Ten films of 2006

By Bill Wine

From this corner, 2006 must have been a pretty good year at the movies.

If not, then how come none of these 10 terrific films made our Top Ten list?:

An Inconvenient Truth, World Trade Center, V for Vendetta, The Illusionist, The Departed, The Queen, Death of a President, The Nativity Story, The Prestige and Happy Feet.