The second trailer for John Chu‘s “G.I. Joe: Retaliation” trailer was released today, and looking at it I think that the filmmakers need to be careful to remember that this movie is based on toys from Hasbro. I mention this because Stephen Sommers‘ original film appeared to be more cartoony than its sequel. By the […]
Spike Lee’s last feature, 2008’s “Miracle at St. Anna” didn’t do that well at the box office, though for his latest ‘Joint’ he’s gone back to his Brooklyn roots for a “Red Hook Summer.” In the film he reprises his character ‘Mookie,’ from “Do The Right Thing,” though supposedly that character is the only thing […]
Oliver Stone is a somewhat uneven director, though when he gets it right, as “Platoon” and “Wall Street” illustrate, he’s capable of great things. I haven’t seen “Natural Born Killers” in a while, but I recall it feeling like a bit of a knock-off of Quentin Tarantino’s style (which makes sense, since he wrote the […]
Rian Johnson‘s followup to”The Brothers Bloom” has arrived, and it appears–for a movie that revolves around time travel–to be surprisingly light on special effects. Time travel movies, those that attempt to be faithful to the possibility, are oftentimes too mired in the science to be very entertaining. A fate suffered by 2004’s Primer; though when […]
Didn’t Luc Besson retire? If so, he has an odd way of showing it because a new film, Lockout, was not only executive produced by him but the screenplay that he helped write was based upon his idea. It doesn’t look like anything that we haven’t seen before, if the trailer is any indicator, though […]
As much as I hate to correct a blog entry that’s generating massive (for me) amounts of hits, I have to do what I have to do: My entry for “Van Helsing 2,” a sequel to a film that’s better off forgotten, doesn’t exist and was actually “Solomon Kane,” the video of which I have […]
I like this trailer because Guillermo Del Toro is credited as an executive producer, and as far as I know he isn’t one of those ‘executive producer in name only‘ types. Besides, anything with his name on it instantly gets bonus points, redeemable toward thought-provoking, kick-arse cinema (in my humble opinion). We’re introduced to Santa […]
Because what we needed was a reboot of “Total Recall,” the original a Paul Verhoeven film that, as far as I could tell, was done pretty well the first time. The new version is being directed by Len Weisman, who’s every film looks like huge set pieces with occasional character interaction thrown in.
Here’s the trailer for Tim Story‘s “Think Like A Man,” which I am interested in seeing–not because it looks entertaining–it does–but because it’s directed by Tim Story. Story directed “The Fantastic Four,” and “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer,” among others, two films that weren’t that great, but whose weakness was due more to […]
This ‘Host’ has nothing to do with the (more than likely) far superior movie by Korean director Bong Joon-ho. Instead it comes to us courtesy of Stephenie Meyer, the writer of the ‘Twilight’ books. I am assuming that these aliens work by possessing an individual, if the trailer is any indicator.
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