When I was drafting my 40 most anticipated films of 2013, I gave the Coen Bro‘s Inside Llewyn Davis the benefit of the doubt and let it soar to my number ten spot. This had nothing to do with the synopsis or the talent in front of the camera. No, all my expectations arose from...
Lately, I’ve been watching Arrested Development (for about the tenth time) to get my insider bits up to snuff as I’m priming for the fated day of May 26 when AD makes it’s glorious return. The show functions so well as a house of jokes riffing on itself and constantly building towards more and...
Alfonso Cuaron‘s Children of Men was an astonishing piece of work and the mystery and intrigue behind his new film Gravity made me pop it into the highest spot on my Most Anticipated Films of 2013 List. Starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock as two solitary astronauts stuck on a damaged spacecraft, Gravity tells...
In five seasons, True Blood has seen vampires, shifters, plain clothed murders, werewolves, fairies, witches, werepanthers and, er, Maenads. Many believe the show to have jumped the proverbial shark and cling to simpler times when True Blood just involved Southern society adapting to the public knowledge that vampires are indeed real. With so much going...
Ender’s Game is one of those popular young adult books that I never around to reading as a kidbut with a big screen adaptation on the way, I’ll be able to discover what all the fuss is about. 70 years after an alien race attacked Earth and nearly destroyed everything that we know, the human...
‘What Maisie Knew’ Directed by Scott McGehee and David SiegelStarring Onata Aprile, Julianne Moore, Steve Coogan, Alexander Skarsgård and Joanna VanderhamDrama99 Mins R What Maisie Knew is an emotional powerhouse of a film led by an adorably funny-faced young actress functioning on a purely natural level, allowing the “performance” underneath to disappear entirely. It strikes...
First things first, this editorial features in-depth discussion on Iron Man 3 so if you haven’t yet seen it turn back now. Don’t say I didn’t tell you so because SPOILERS FOLLOW… Ok now that you’ve made it through, let’s talk Kevin Feige and Iron Man 3. So anyone who had seen one trailer, poster,...
What has an A-list movie star, a thriving franchise and this guy’s support? You guessed it: Mission Impossible 5. Although the news is hardly startling, Tom Cruise has signed on for the fifth installment in the popular franchise returning to play IMF agent Ethan Hunt. Last film, there was a lot of speculation that Jeremy...
After casting both Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway, block-busting guru Christopher Nolan has added two new faces to his sci-fi alternate reality flick Instellar– Michael Caine and Jessica Chastain. Caine comes as no surprise as he has been in every Nolan flick since Batman Begins and obviously has a great working relationship with Nolan....
There is a necessary amount of forgiveness involved in the Marvel Movie Universe but if you're willing to engage and let this world full of superheroes and supervillians continue to…