Just when the Interstellar cast is looking as stacked as it could possibly be, nerd-god Christopher Nolan goes and adds John Lithgow (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) and Ellen Burstyn (Requiem for a Dream) to his already massive cast. Burstyn’s work in Requiem is one of the most overlooked, and absolutely best, performances...
With a massively talented cast that includes Chiwetel Ejiofor, Brad Pitt, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Giamatti, Quvenzhane Wallis, Sarah Paulson and Paul Dano, director Steve McQueen‘s 12 Years a Slave tells the true story of Solomon Northup. Born a free man, Northup was captured, drugged and then enslaved for 12 years. McQueen’s two prior films,...
With an all-star cast that includes Christian Bale, Zoe Saldana, Woody Harrelson, Willem Dafoe, Forest Whitaker and Casey Affleck, Out of the Furnace follows Bale as Russel Baze, an ex-convict lured into a confrontation with a powerful crime ring. When his brother (Affleck) comes back from war, gets involved with the wrong people and mysteriously...
How to Train Your Dragon is one of the greatest animated movies of the past ten years. Had it not gone head-to-head against Toy Story 3, I don’t doubt that it would have walked away with Best Animated film but 2010 was a year on fire for animated films, a year that also included Coraline...
Nelson Mandela, international icon of non-violent resistance and anti-apartheid leader, has been represented on film before, last by Morgan Freeman in the tepid rugby movie Invictus, but no-one has taken a stab at the most challenging part of his life like Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom looks to. Starring Idris Elba as Mandela, this...
Lullabying us in with the iconic whimsical ballad of “chim chiminey, chim chiminey, chim chim charoo”‘s, this trailer for Saving Mr. Banks “promises” to deliver the real, unfiltered view of Mr. Walt Disney. With two-time Academy Award-winner Tom Hanks filling the shows of Disney and Emma Thompson co-starring as author P. L. Travers, this biopic...
While Pacific Rim is very clearly derivative of the big money-raking blockbusters of the past, its wandering eye plagiarism has been noticed and reported. The tepid action and blinding cinematography…
On the heels of the first official poster, Spike Lee‘s remake of Chan Wook-Park‘s Korean cult classic Oldboy gets a entrail-smattered red band trailer. Hoping to win over newcomers to the film and hopefully capture the attention of purists, Lee’s film is already divisive in nature. Personally, I hold no grudge against remakes of foreign...
Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho, Less Than Zero) is famous for digging up dirt and tossing it in his audience’s face. He may not be the most commercial or popular write, in fact he’s openly trounced by legions of authorial purists, but he definitely has a staunchly original voice. His name alone generates my...
Apparently the little kerfuffle back in The Avengers where Thor leaped through the air and brought his Godly-powered magical hammer down on Captain America’s shield was horseplay compared to the carnage going down in this sequel, Captain America: The Winter Solider, as the All-Americano custom job on Cap’s shield is chipping away like bargain-bin...