After a little kerfuffle about whether Robert Downey Jr. would walk away from the hugely popular Marvel after his five picture contract expired with Iron Man 3, he has signed on to do at least two more films in the franchise with the not yet titled Avengers 2 and Avengers 3. Word is that...
The Spectacular Now lives up to its name as it sits as one of the best of the year on my list. Taking a poignant and intimate look at Sutter Kelly (Miles Teller) as he struggles to figure out what’s next after high school, James Ponsoldt has crafted a film that transcends the young...
Throughout it's 109 minutes, there is not an ounce of narrative fat asking to be skimmed off nor is there any pandering to a broad and blasé audience. The tender…
Bringing back together the bodacious foursome of Brick, Champ, Brian and Ron, Anchorman: The Legend Continues finally unleashes a trailer that actually shows some plot points. Fast-forwarding a decade into the 1980’s, everyone’s favorite sex-panthery news team is back to re-up a decade mostly devoid of one-liners. With all the original cast returning with Will...
Gimmicky though it may seem, the Lego people have decided to move outside of the toys and video game platform and try their hand at a feature film. This first trailer offers a look at the legoverse which seems to have somehow ascertained the rights to a handful of franchises seeing how they throw DC...
Adapted from the personal memoirs of Jordan Belfort, The Wolf of Wall Street is a true story of excess, greed and goopy morals in the corporate world that’ll play all out in the fifth collaboration from Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio. Undercut by Kanye West’s “Black Skinheads,” this first look seems more like a...
Contrasting Man of Steel to Bryan Singer's Superman Returns, it is head and shoulders superior. DC Comics continues along the path set out for them by Nolan where a sense of reality is…
46 Days and 447 Films From Thursday, April 25 (with an official start date of May 16) to Sunday, June 9, the Seattle International Film Festival has screened 447 films, 31 of which I had a chance to watch. From opening with Joss Whedon’s Shakespearean piece Much Ado About Nothing, which I called “a...
“The Bling Ring”Directed by Sofia Coppola Starring Israel Broussard, Katie Chang, Emma Watson, Leslie Mann, Claire Julien, Taissa Farmiga Crime, Drama 90 Mins R In a funny way, The Bling Ring is Sofia Coppola‘s most accessible film to date. As cognizantly distant and empty-headed as the teens-on-a-tear at the center of the film are, Coppola...
Look past the grimy quality of this trailer for Snowpiercer and you might see a standard sci-fi. But why then are the Weinsteins picking this up for distribution? Well let’s just say they say faith in the director. Adapted from a French graphic novel, Joon-ho Bong‘s Snowpiercer follows a group of survivors as they race...