The last I had heard of Steven Soderbergh, the director of “Sex, Lies & Videotape,” “Traffic,” the ‘Ocean’ films, and more recently, 2011’s “Contagion,” was that he had retired. I guess success (of a box office nature) changes a person because Soderberg’s last film, “Magic Mike,” was huge (made on a budget of $7 million, […]
Superherohype is saying that Kevin Feige, Robert Downey, Jr., and Shane Black, the director of the film, are saying that the upcoming “Iron Man 3” will not be a “serious” movie. Feige, Downey and Black are closer to the production than I am (by an almost indescribable degree), so I think that we can take […]
I suspect I know the answer to the question above even before I wrote it, but part of me refuses to believe that a movie based upon Gerry Anderson’s “UFO” is probably not going to happen. Sure, there’s been no news for almost a year now–the site has been live for a bit over two–but […]
“If “Frightnight” didn’t have to carry the memory of a significantly better film, it would have been better for it.” I spent my Thanksgiving with my family in Connecticut, where–besides drinking and trying to ignore the almost constant noise generated by my niece and nephew–I watched a lot of cable. Among everything that I watched it’s […]
Many people, after seeing David Twohy’s “The Chronicles Of Riddick” probably thought that the franchise had gone off the tracks. While its predecessor, 2000’s “Pitch Black” can essentially be summed up as seven or eight people caught in enemy territory (which for them was an entire planet) trying to make their way to a ship, […]
“Flight” is a intriguing character study about a man who needed to hit bottom before he could reach the top. Can we just give Denzel Washington the Oscar already? His performance in Robert Zemeckis’ “Flight” is not only brilliant, but nuanced and daring. Washington, unlike many actors (such as Tom Cruise) is not afraid to be unattractive, either as […]
The penultimate film in the ‘Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2′ is estimated to earn around $135 million over the coming weekend. This is a great thing from Lionsgate, which purchased Summit Entertainment a few months ago, and the millions of fans of the franchise. For those of us that like their vampires to act […]
I was talking to a cashier at my local Trader Joe’s while he rang up my order. Our conversation eventually moved on to movies, so I asked him if he had seen “Skyfall”–if you haven’t, see it. It’s that good–He said he had, and had liked it. He then mentioned that he was really excited […]
I am not a huge Doctor Who fan, though on occasion I did watch some of the Tom Baker episodes. I hindsight I probably wasn’t more into the good Doctor because, like most British series of the time, the quality of the special effects and sets were usually bad (they did the best with what […]
I wish that people, be they directors or anyone else, would just stop talking about how serious or realistic their comic book-based movies are. It’s not only tiring, but it makes no sense at all. For instance, over at Collider there’s an interview with Zach Snyder, the director of the upcoming “Man of Steel,” and […]
