300: Rise of an Empire and Only God Forgives may have a few similarities – gruesome violence, hard R-rating – but I don’t think that there is much to tie the two films together outside the fact that I have brand spankin’ new posters for each of them. One poster is swattered in a...
With the first trailer just debuting, this afterlife secret agency flick, R.I.P.D., which stands for Rest in Peace Division, sure seems to remind me a lot of Men in Black. Sure, Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith may have been replaced by Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds respectively, but with all the gadgetry, puns and...
So what do you get when you cross Star Wars‘ malevolent Emperor Palpatine with Avatar‘s blue monkey people, the Na’vi? Well Jamie Foxx‘s Electro from The Amazing Spiderman 2 of course! Or at least that’s what these initially production photos look like. Even those these photos are deemed unofficial, they still offer a pretty...
With all the hype and anticipation for J.J. Abram‘s Star Trek into Darkness, the last thing I want to be caught doing is watching this third (or is it fourth?) and final trailer. These days, things have a way of petering themselves out before they even hit theaters. Overexposure and crucial plot and character...
On the heels of the third and final Star Trek into Darkness trailer, Warner Bros has unleashed a third trailer for Zack Snyder‘s Man of Steel. The first Superman movie without the word Superman jammed right in the title, this is a pure reboot that takes Kai El/Clark Kent/Superman back to his...
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...