If you loved the manic energy and subversive style of the Crank movies – and the dark satire of Gamer, for that matter – then you’ll love this: according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision blog, the co-directors of those films, Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, are in talks to direct Ghost Rider: Spirit of […]
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Hugh Jackman’s Latest Real Steel – First Photos!
Here are the first two photos from Hugh Jackman’s latest – Real Steel. “Real Steel” is an action drama about a former boxer (Hugh Jackman) who, against all odds, gets one last shot at a comeback when he teams up with his estranged son (Dakota Goyo) to build and train the perfect contender for the […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Micmacs Wins Us Over With Oddball Approach to Revenge!
Jean-Pierre Jeunet is best known for the luminous Amelie – and the darkly comic Delicatessen – but they’re not the only fine films he’s made. His latest effort, Micmacs, is both a revenge flick and a caper movie. In this case, both revolve around the unfortunate Bazil [Dany Boone] – whose father is killed by […]
Michelle likes The A-Team!
The A-Team ruined my childhood because it was the very first television show where I discovered that there’s a formula to making television. I remember the moment clearly, it came in the middle of season two when I predicted down to the exact same time when something would happen in the TV show and it […]
MOVIE REVIEW: The A-Team – Overkill is Underrated!
We all know the story – even the shortest TV spot gives us the spine of it – the Alpha, or A-Team is set up whilst on a covert ops mission and court-martialed for a crime they didn’t commit, so they break out of prison to clear their names and nail the person[s] responsible for […]
Jonah Hex DC Screening Announcement! It’s EM Night at the Movies!
It’s been a few weeks, so it’s time for another EM Night At the Movies. Grab your friends and come on down for the Washington, DC Advanced Screening of Jonah Hex! The screening will be held at one of our fabulous downtown DC locations (cough, Gallery Place, cough) next Wednesday night at 7:30 pm. Courtesy […]
MOVIE REVIEW: The Karate Kid – More Than Just a Reasonable Facsimile!
I went into the screening of The Karate Kid intrigued by the trailers but not expecting much. Maybe that’s why I enjoyed it so much.
MOVIE NEWS: Paramount Announces UNTITLED Les Grossman Project After Landmark 2010 MTV Movie Awards!
If, like me, you were puzzled by the amount of attention given to Tom Cruise’s Les Grossman during the MTV Movie Awards last weekend, then today’s press release from Paramount, announcing a film about the character [though treating him very much like an actual Hollywood heavyweight] should clear that up. The frequently hilarious press release […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Splice: In the Beginning There Was Shelley… and Whale!
Splice is the latest there-are-things-Man-was-not-meant-to-know movie – a modern update on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, via James Whale’s original Frankenstein movie. Like that film, there will no doubt be a number of critics and members of the audience who view it as a revolting piece of trash. I expect that, like Whale’s Frankenstein, it will survive […]
Michelle kind of Hates Splice
Splice is one of those movies that I had no real interest in seeing but after being cooped up in the house for 4 days, I was like why not take a drive into town. The movie starts off well enough – a couple of conceited scientist, Clive Nicoli (Adrien Brody) and Elsa Kast (Sarah […]
MOVIES: First Look: Micmacs – Amelie Director Throws in Everything Including the Kitchen Sink!
Jean-Pierre Jeunet has already made his mark on the greater North American consciousness with the rapidly-coming-considered-a-classic, Amelie. If not for budgetary concerns, he might have repeated the feat with The Life of Pi, a film about a boy and tiger stranded in a lifeboat. Since that never came to pass, Jeunet has taken the tale […]