It’s strange to think that Baz Luhrman‘s revelatory Romeo + Juliet is almost 20 years old so it kind of makes sense that perhaps the most filmed story in the history of the world is ripe for another installment in the 2000s. Carlo Carlei tackles the tale of star-crossed lover who commit the most silly...
But Fruitvale Station doesn't bank on the brand of weepy, sentimental tearjerkers that leaves you with the bad taste of manipulation. It's something entirely different and entirely beautiful - a…
Even though it's dressed in a modge-podge of genre clichés, the breezy 90s settings, and the jokes derived from the inimitable hallmarks of that generation, gives enough life to hum…
Even from a visual standpoint, The Wolverine doesn't contain the bleak imagery of gritty affairs as Ross Emery frames everything in a splendor of picturesque Japanese vistas. In these choices,…
Alfonso Cuaron, director of Children of Men, Y Tu Mama Tambienand Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, is a bold filmmaker that challenges the borders of traditional filmmaking. He’s an artist with a vision so exact that he will invent technologies in order to get the kind of shot that he wants – take...
This year’s TIFF certainly has a loaded playlist and I’m starting to consider just bucking up and attending, but we’ll see if those dreams actually come into fruition. The event will launch with their opening night film The Fifth Estate, the Wikileaks feature starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Also included in the Gala Presentations, there is the...
All in all, The Conjuring is just an incredibly effective creeper that is much more likely to linger with its patrons than much of the horror fare of the recent…
DC certainly seems to have stolen the thunder over at the San Diego Comic Con by announcing that the next project on their slate will be a team up film featuring Batman and Superman. Following the success of Man of Steel, this first step towards the eventual Justice League will start building the larger DC...
Up until now, the follow up to The Avengers has been a largely unknown quality outside the fact that writer/director Joss Whedon would return but with the title treatment, The Avengers: Age of Ultron, legions of Marvel fans are taking to speculation as to what this next installment would entail. Culled straight from...
Following up on the unexpected success of the Rise of the Planet of the Apes, this second, or seventh (or eighth if you count the Tim Burton version) installment in the 45 year-old franchise, entitled Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, goes 15 years into the future to see how well the apes and...