“Locke” Directed by Steven Knight Starring Tom Hardy United Kingdom 85 Minutes True to its name, Locke slams us in a car with Tom Hardy for 85 mins as he’s forced to steer his life in new directions that ultimately orchestrates the end of his small but satisfying world. Zipping along sparsely populated English highways...
Oh what a year it has been, a fact cemented this morning with the announcement of 121 Oscar nominations. Noticeably absent were a host of Academy kings and queens like Tom Hanks, who was originally looking at two potential nominations and would up with none, and Hank’s Saving Mr. Banks co-star Emma Thompson, who became...
Oh what a year it has been, a fact cemented this morning with the announcement of 121 Oscar nominations. Noticeably absent were a host of Academy kings and queens like Tom Hanks, who was originally looking at two potential nominations and would up with none, and Hank’s Saving Mr. Banks co-star Emma Thompson, who became...
With all the talk of great movies out of the way, the task of singling out and ridiculing the slate of absolutely garbage that somehow managed to limp into theaters this year has come. Now every year inevitably sees a slew of flunkies hit the big screen like a batch of rotten tomatoes but I...
In two days time, Chris Hemsworth and the President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Cheryl Boone Isaacs will announce the nominations for the 86th Academy Awards. With the dust from the Golden Globes still setting, this year’s nominations will indelibly include some surprises and snubs because with 2013 being such a crowded...
After Marvel’s Phase Two, which started with Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World and will continue with Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy, concludes with Joss Whedon‘s The Avengers 2, the next comic book movie from Marvel universe is Edgar Wright‘s long gestated Ant-Man, a tale about a scientist who...
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve done a Weekly Review post with the holidays and all so the following is really what I’ve seen over the past three weeks or so. Between traveling coasts, wrapping up my top ten, and busting out a bundle of lingering 2013 reviews, I finally had a chance to...
Let’s be honest, if you haven’t yet seen Game of Thrones, you’re so far out of the pop-nerd zeitgesit that you might as well have never even heard of Breaking Bad. So I’ll be approaching this article assuming that you know what’s up on HBO’s most popular show. That means spoilers. After the character-killing events...
Let’s be honest, if you haven’t yet seen Game of Thrones, you’re so far out of the pop-nerd zeitgesit that you might as well have never even heard of Breaking Bad. So I’ll be approaching this article assuming that you know what’s up on HBO’s most popular show. That means spoilers. After the character-killing events...
After talking about how his next film would continue playing in the southern America/slavery playground that Django Unchained dabbled, Quentin Tarantino revealed that the title of his much anticipated new film would be The Hateful Eight. Tarantino’s screenplay is reported finished and will likely find its way online and into the line of scrutiny sooner...