How does Conan O’ Brien get these scoops? I’d be careful if I were him because from what I hear the Sony legal department is just waiting to catch infringers in its legal web. Heck, Conan has money, so he’ll be OK. Me, I am not too sure. Despite my doubts, I have to believe […]
If I were that only person that said that “Pacific Rim” is a great time at the theater, then I could perhaps understand some hesitation. But if “Half In The Bag” says it’s good, you know they’re right. Their review is bit late (which Jay acknowledges) but better late than never.
I am not yet ready to serve the naysayers that implied that “Pacific Rim” would be a flop a juicy slice of humble pie, though I am warming up the oven. Guillermo Del Toro’s love letter to Saturday afternoon monster features finished first in 50 territories, and hasn’t yet been released in China, Brazil, Spain and […]
Warner Bros. has revealed that they are going ahead with a Superman & Batman feature, though my question is: How could anybody be surprised by this? At this point DC has only two “viable” characters – as in, almost guaranteed to make a profit – and that’s Superman (as “Man of Steel” has shown”) and […]
As I wrote in my review last week, I enjoyed Guillermo Del Toro’s “Pacific Rim” quite a bit. It was a serious film, that at moments didn’t take itself quite too seriously. If you have seen either of Del Toro’s ‘Hellboy’ films (as well as the last – and only, that I am aware – […]
First, take a great title like “All You Need Is Kill,” and change it to something as vague, as soapy-sounding as, I don’t know, “Edge Of Tomorrow.” Which reminds me of a Lady Gaga song, or “The Edge Of Night.” Then you add Tom Cruise – who’s box office powers has been somewhat uncertain as […]
I finished watching, in perhaps my greatest bit of binge-viewing yet, the first season of Jenji Kohan’s “Orange Is The New Black” (think that the title refers to the orange jumpsuits that the women wear as well as a commentary on the prison culture that exists in the United States) a week or so ago. […]
Studios executives sometimes seem as if they do things to deliberately alienate the audience (coincidentally, the very same people that they expect to pay to see their movies). For instance, Alan Moore, as the writer of “Watchmen,” quite possibly the most acclaimed comic ever, was never keen that his projects be adapted for feature films. […]
I am not sure about the “Oldboy” remake. I think Spike Lee is an interesting choice to helm an English-language remake of Chan-wook Park’s visceral film, but the poster seems to set the wrong tone. Josh Brolin, playing the role originated by Min-sik Choi, in the poster seems too aware, almost hyper-aware, in fact. Now, […]
Now this is what I call high concept! Five guys, after not seeing each other for a long while, come back together to complete a – for whatever reason – notorious pub crawl in a town that has been taken over by…wait for it…robots (I assume that we’re talking about an alien invasion scenario, with […]
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