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...
Behind the Candelabra is set to hit HBO Sunday, May 26 but will premiere before at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Michael Douglas stars as musical genius Liberace in this biopic that unravels his tumultuous, secret love affair with Scott Thorson (Matt Damon). Soderbergh has talked at length lately about his alleged retirement from...
With a release date of August 2, the following two pictures offer the first look at the followup to Zack Synder‘s 300. Titled 300: Rise of an Empire, this sequel-that-was-a-prequel is now more of a simul, as it takes place within roughly the same time frame as the original but on a different battleground...
While the scope here offers a commanding view of the nature of reverberations, the mood is repeatedly dour and at times painstakingly hard to watch. This glum tone takes command…