Apocryphal story: an actor is rejected for a role because he’s short. ‘But I can act tall!’ comes the response. As hard as it is to believe, Tom Cruise acts tall in Jack Reacher.
Tag: Movies
Les Misérables is full of Heart! Michelle’s Review!
Les Misérables is one of the most popular and longest running musicals of all time. In the DC area alone it has grossed over $53 million dollars in its numerous runs. On Broadway it has earned over $800 million dollars. Based on the Victor Hugo classic (At 1,400 pages it is one of the longest […]
Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away 3D – WOW! Just WOW!
Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away is enthralling, entrancing, mesmerizing (pick any one; or all of the above) experience.
The Guilt Trip: The Mother-Son Road Trip From Hell!
The Guilt Trip is a decent road trip movie featuring Barbra Streisand as Joyce, the Jewish mother taken to the nth degree, and Seth Rogen as Andy, her far too grounded, no-risk-taker of a son.
Trailer: Guillermo Del Toro’s Pacific Rim–Anime Beasts and Bots Come To Life. Big Time!
This has been out for a few days, but if you’ve missed it, you’ve missed a lot of fun! Del Toro’s homage to kaiju movies appears to kick some serious extra-dimensional tuchus!
Trailer #2: Star Trek Into Darkness!
The New Star Trek Into Darkness trailer is something more than the herald of a new adventure – it shows that the new crew will face the same kind of thought-provoking challenges that made the various Trek series and predecessor mvoies, at their best, such wonderful experiences.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – LOTR Lite!
Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey melds the slender Tolkien children’s novel and material from the appendices of The Lord of the Rings to create a movie that is not quite as dark as his brilliant LOTR Trilogy, or anywhere near as whimsically delightful as The Hobbit, Or There and Back Again. It comes […]
Maverick Goes BIG! Top Gun Coming to IMAX 3D!
Top Gun, the movie that firmly entrenched Tom Cruise in starhood, is getting a really big big screen return when it premieres in IMAX 3D – in selected IMAX theaters – on February 8, 2013. The transfer to IMAX 3D was supervised by the film’s director Tony Scott. Not surprisingly, a 3D Blu-ray release will […]
Hitchcock Is Incredibly Tacky Fun!
Hitchcock is a fabulist take on Hitchcock’s life while making Psycho. It opens with Hitchcock introducing the film in a manner we can recognise from television’s classic Alfred Hitchcock Presents following a murder that will play into the story in a pretty dramatic (and also cheeky) way.
Trailer: Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away 3D
For those of us who can’t afford hundreds of dollars for a live Cirque Du Soleil performance, this looks like the best possible alternative. Breathtaking stuff…
Cuffing Superman? What The Heck???
The new poster for Man of Steel is definitely different…