What is sure to be pretty big news around the stratosphere is the release of the first trailer for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. The first film was a surprising success that managed to balance box office prowess with good filmmaking. Since the first installment, Gary Ross has departed as director and has been...
At the center of the 42 is a stirring tale of resistance, will-power, personal triumph and character- a Jesus-esque tale of turning the other cheek and growing in spite of…
It takes a tested hand like Boyle’s to turn this relatively minor film into a genre flick buzzing along with tactful cinema purity and a life all its own. The…
This week in movie watching, I caught up on a few films that I’d been wanting to see from around the world including the French dramedy The Intouchables, Samuel L. Jackson and Christina Rucci deep-south film Black Snake Moan, and a difficult British film that explored some tough issues – Fish Tank. The Intouchables...
Scooped up out of Cannes by Fox Searchlight for a whooping $9.75 million, The Way, Way Back is sure to be a player come Oscar season as it was written and directed by the scribing team behind 2011’s acclaimed The Descendents: Nat Faxon and Jim Rash. Starring Liam James (The Killing), Toni Collette (United States...
I just love the suggestiveness rolling out of Jon S. Baird‘s Filth, a film that’s sure to be an out-of-control romp. Adapted from the novel by Irvine Welsh, who also wrote Trainspotting, this film follows a perverted, bigoted, alcoholic, cocaine-snorting officer of the law, played by James McAvoy. The red -band trailer is vulgar,...
Perhaps the wittiest television show to ever grace the silver screen, Arrested Development was cancelled by Fox in 2006 in a particularly brutal fashion. Show-runner Mitchell Hurwitz and Co. begged and pleaded. They upped the celebrity cameos. They even threw a bunch of winking jokes to save the show into the script but nothing...
After casting news last week that Matthew McConaughey has joined Christopher Nolan‘s next ambitious project, Interstellar, today brings news that Anne Hathaway has hopped aboard as well. While there are still precious few details about the film, we do know that it’ll hover in the sci-fi genre and tackle time travel, worm holes, alternative...
Way back in 2009, District 9 joined the elite few sci-fi films ever to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar and director Neill Blomkamp aims to follow it up with an equally ambitious sci-fi/political commentary film- Elysium. Similarly to District 9, this film focuses on a society split apart by social barriers. In...
Rush tells the true story of the 1976 Formula-One season and the budding rivalry between James Hunt and Niki Lauda. Chris Hemsworth (Thor) will fill the shoes of Hunt with Daniel Brühl (Inglorious Basterds) playing Lauda and Ron Howard behind the camera. Howard is an interesting Hollywood talent. He’s directed such Oscar-winning pictures as...