In this age of bowdlerized fairytales and Political Correctness, it would seem that most venues for storytelling are more concerned with not offending someone than actually telling a story. The writers of the five volumes of The Spiderwick Chronicles created their stories with a refreshingly dark edge – something that kids of all ages […]
Category: Movies
Indiana Jones Trailer Hits Friday!
I haven’t done much coverage of the upcoming Indiana Jones film but here’s some interesting news, the teaser trailer debuts in theaters this weekend. Paramount Pictures and Lucasfilm Ltd. announced today that the first teaser trailer for the highly anticipated Indiana Jones adventure “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” directed by Steven […]
Fool’s Gold Is Exactly That!
It’s not bad enough that Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson showed a lack of chemistry in How to Lose a Guy in 10 days. Oh, no. They had to team up again to provide us with a Romancing the Stone wannabe that lacks romance, adventure and intelligence.
SxSW Gets Another Plum. Warner Brother’s Otis Opens The Austin Conference.
Warner Home Video (WHV) announced today that the provocative, black-comedy OTIS, the fourth feature under the Raw Feed production banner, will have its world premiere on opening day of the 15th edition of the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference & Festival in Austin, Texas. The film, along with Columbia Pictures’ 21 (starring Kevin Spacey, […]
John Rambo Is No Rocky Balboa!
Despite an opening montage that tells us Rambo is going to Say Stuff and Be About Something, it proceeds from that point to be a luridly messy action flick that has its roots in the exploitation flicks of the sixties. Sadly, writer/director/star Sylvester Stallone – who really got the final Rocky movie right – has […]
Untraceable Is Unconscionable!
Untraceable is one of those movies that tries to Say Something while luridly pandering to an audience that isn’t likely to be listening.
Rambo is Back this Weekend
Rambo- Trailer 3 – Watch more free videos Here are a couple of Rambo news items. Originally Lionsgate wasn’t going to screen the movie for Critics, but they relented at the last minute and had a press screening tonight. Unfortuanately, it’s at a hard to get to theater here in DC so I’m going to […]
EM and Variety Team Up to Bring You Sundance
Hey Everyone, generally I would be the one out in the cold to bring you coverage of some convention or festival, but this time I’m teaming up with the folks at a little publication called Variety to bring you the scoop on this week’s Sundance Film Festival. I’m sure they don’t have the vast resources […]
Oscars Are Announced and we give a collective Yawn
I was going to post this yesterday, but the Heath Ledger tragedy took priority and somehow talking about the Oscar race after his death seemed a little weird. I have to say that while I’m not enthused with this year’s selections, I agree with most of them. The only rant that I would have is […]
Tragic News, Heath Ledger Dead at 28
Generally, I don’t report news like this on the site because I don’t have anything to say when someone dies. Especially someone that I don’t know. But I feel that I must comment on the death of Heath Ledger. He was probably one of my top 5 favorite actors. I loved everything that he’s done, […]
Cloverfield Gives The Classic Monster Movie A Fresh Spin!
It’s a good thing that Cloverfield is only eighty minutes long [not including closing credits] – otherwise I might not have been able to leave the theatre afterward! As it was, I felt like I had been through an actual wringer when the lights came up.