Universal Pictures and Hero Complex are having free screenings of “Oblivion,” Joseph Kosinski’s followup to “Tron: Legacy,” starting on the 15th of this month. If you’re in New York, Philadelphia or Burbank (among others cities) you might want to look into it. It revolves around Tom Cruise, who’s a repairman of droids on an Earth that […]
I really like this trailer. James DeMonaco, who wrote the screenplay for the excellent “Assault On Precinct 13” reboot is directing “The Purge,” which takes place in an America where crime and unemployment have fallen to unheard of lows. It’s a golden age, though nothing worth having comes without a price. That price is known […]
“”Evil Dead,” the reboot of Sam Raimi’s 1983 film,”The Evil Dead,” tag line notwithstanding, probably is not “the most horrifying film you will ever experience,” though few films approach self-multilation with such a sense of abandon” In Sam Raimi’s original film, humor was often used to leaven the effects of the horror, thought the reboot–for […]
Success should be rewarded. If you’re good at what you do, you should be paid for it. Sometimes, handsomely. But when such things grow out of proportion, it borders on insanity. For instance, the head of the Walt Disney Company, Bob Iger, recently announced that there would be layoffs to cut costs, which is an […]
Today Roger Ebert died after a hard fought battle with cancer. He was 70 years old, and – at least for me – humanized movie reviewing, making it feel like it was something that anyone, including myself, could do. I remember watching both him and Gene Siskel – who died in February, 1999 – on […]
Working with DC Comics’ We Can Be Heroes campaign, a relief effort to fight hunger in the Horn of Africa, Kia created a number of custom vehicles for the 2013 New York Auto Show. The vehicles are designed with styling queues from iconic DC superheroes like Wonder Woman, Superman, Batman, and Aquaman. The cause that […]
“”G.I. Joe: Retribution” isn’t a good film, though there’s enough things blowing up on screen to keep everyone entertained (which is kinda sad when you think about it).” To enjoy genre films, be they scifi, horror, fantasy, or anything for that matter, it’s necessary for the viewer to accept that the world that the story […]
Though you never know;) Now this, I like. The earlier posters from Guillermo Del Toro’s “Pacific Rim” were OK, but they didn’t to me quite capture all the giant robot goodness that the film appears to be chock full of. So, what better place to start that with than the American and Australian Jaegers, Gipsy […]
“”The Apparition” Is Too Good To Have Been Treated So Shabbily By Its Producers” First off, ignore the trailer posted below. It’s seemingly for Todd Lincoln‘s “The Apparition,” currently spooling on iTunes. The footage is accurate, though the voiceovers misrepresent the movie (most of which aren’t actually in the film), as does the tagline for […]
Here’s the complete trailer for James Mangold‘s ‘The Wolverine,” complete with narrative continuity! Here, Logan/Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) makes his way to Japan, where it appears that he somehow loses his healing factor, which is bad thing when what looks like hundreds of black pajama-clad ninjas are trying to kill you. There’s a fight on what […]
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