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...
As long as you expect more of the same with 300: Rise of an Empire, you’ll be sure to be in good hands as this sequel looks to deliver more slo-mo sword swinging, impractically beautiful (and doubtlessly nude) women amidst comic book-esque landscapes and impossibly muscular men doing implausible physical feats. While the original crew...
Naomi Watts has been circling an Oscar for a while now and this biopic may be her best shot at scoring gold. Chartering the final two years of the iconic “princess of the people,” Diana draws from the novel “Diana: Her Last Love” by Kate Snell which brings Diana’s secret love affair with Pakistani...
Following up on yesterday’s poster, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug has unleashed a trailer before it launches in front of Man of Steel this weekend. The scope looks equally grand and the visuals will hopefully be eye-popping but not eye-straining like it was with the supercharged 48 FPS launch to the trilogy. Whether Jackson...
After adapting the tomes of J.R.R. Tolkien‘s Lord of the Rings series into three massively scaled films, Peter Jackson made the folly of trying to do the same with the 276-page The Hobbit. Splicing the minor film into three films seemed like a poor choice from the get-go so it was no huge surprise...
Curled up in leather chairs by a sputtering fireplace, Kieran Darcy-Smith, Felicity Price and I had a chance to talk about their new film Wish You Were Here. Director/screenwriter, Kieran, and leading lady/screenwriter, Felicity, worked through making a distinctlyAustralian film that is also universally human and found success. With acting as divine as it...