Iron Man 2 is one of those movies that is perplexing to me. If you ask the question – did I enjoy it, I would say, yeah, sure, it’s a big dumb action movie, but man is it a disappointing mess that’s all over the place, with no real highs. The original Iron Man wanted […]
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MOVIE NEWS: X-Men: First Class Gets Kick-Ass Director; Release Date!
According to a report from The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision blog, Matthew Vaughn, director of Kick-Ass, has signed on to direct Fox’s Marvel property, X-Men: First Class. A recent script rewrite apparently made Fox executives decide that the film could be ready for release by June 3, 2011. The film deals with mutants, led by […]
Eclipse Night at the Movies – Letters to Juliet! No Hassle Screening Alert!
Treat your Mother to a movie on Mother’s day at EclipseMagazine.com’s Night at the MOvieI love the trailer for Letters to Juliet until they give away the ending! This movie looks like it’ll be cute and fun, we have tickets available for the Washington, DC Sneak Peak. This is a no hassle screening alert, to […]
MOVIE REVIEW: FIRST LOOK: Gunless – An Affectionate Semi-Spoof of Westerns!
Paul Gross [most recently of Eastwick] stars as The Montana Kid in the Canadian western semi-spoof, Gunless. Best known in the U.S. for playing Constable Benton Fraser in Due South, Gross’ Men with Brooms [he directed, co-wrote and starred] garnered a cult following stateside even though it was centered around a less than well-known sport […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Furry Vengeance – And the Race for the Razzie is On!
Furry Vengeance is an eco-fable with a concrete fist in an iron glove. The tale of a developer who moves his family from Chicago to an Oregon forest to build an idyllic housing development only to become the target of an angry Mother Nature has its heart in the right place but everything else is […]
Movie Review: A Nightmare On Elm Street Reboot Lacks Imagination, Creepiness of the Original
One, Two, (the very boring) new Freddy is coming for you! Ok, so yes, I am old enough to have seen the original 1984 version of A Nightmare on Elm Street in the theaters. To remember sitting in the darkened theater and being mesmerized and scared by this horrifying looking creature who could kill people […]
Nightmare on Elm Street, is another Remake that Doesn’t Need to Exist! Michelle’s Review
The problem with most remakes is that they are forced to justify their existence as being something that’s necessary and beyond being cheap money grabs from a sometimes creatively bankrupt studio system. Nightmare on Elm Street isn’t a horrible movie, but it’s a film that’s incredibly bland, unimaginative and you can’t help but watch and […]
The Losers is a fun, but Blatent Rip off of The A-Team
While watching The Losers I couldn’t escape two thoughts 1) Poor A-Team Movie and 2) As much as I love Chris Evans, he just isn’t right for Captain America. The Losers is based on a DC/Vertigo comic book series that came out last year (available in 5 trade paperbacks) about a Special Forces group that […]
MOVIE REVIEW: The Perfect Game May Not Be Perfect but It’s Definitely a Ground Rule Double!
In 1957, a group of under-sized neophyte baseball players from Monterrey, Mexico became the first non-American team to win the Little League World Series. The Perfect Game is sorta, kinda their story. The movie, adapted for the big screen by the author of the book of the same name, W. William Winkour, plays fast and […]
MOVIE REVIEW: The Losers is a Winner!
The Losers is a relatively low-budget movie adapted from a relatively obscure comics series. It’s packed with action of a PG variety and set up by a CIA operation that not only goes wrong but takes out twenty-five Bolivian children. That last part, staged by a CIA ghost called Max [Jason Patric], was supposed to […]
MOVIE REVIEW – FIRST LOOK: Max Manus – Leader of the Norwegian Resistance’s Story Makes for Spare but Elegant Film!
You’ve most likely never heard of Max Manus [Askel Hennie], but he was one of the most effective saboteurs of World War II. The eponymous Norwegian film concerns itself with detailing his exploits in a stark, straightforward manner.