Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s first film, the claustrophobic The Lives of Others, won the Oscar® for Best Foreign Language Film. For only his second full-length feature, he’s chosen to do a big budget Hollywood film. Not just any old Hollywood caper/thriller/romance. No, he has taken on The Tourist, based on the French film, Anthony Zimmer. […]
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Movie News: Production Round-Up Week of 5.28.10
Hollywood is having the same financial ups and downs as the rest of business world. On the down side, MGM , which is almost $4 billion in debt, said on Thursday that its lenders agreed to let it skip interest and principal payments until July 14. In a news release, the struggling studio said […]
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 […]
Movies News: First Official Photo of Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter
This is a weird little thing to post since photos of Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter has been all over the net for the last 3 or 8 months, but here is the first OFFICIAL photo from Disney of JD. Take a gander.
MOVIE REVIEW: Public Enemies, Michelle finally gets around to seeing it!
So far this summer movie season is turning out to be one massive crop of bland, dud. Of course I knew this going into the summer when I wrote a post a few months ago listing the 10 summer movies that I had absolutely no interest in seeing, in that post I also mentioned a […]
TRAILER PARK: Five Hot Trailers to discuss this week. Week of 5.17.09
Before I start this, let me just say Movie Studios attitudes towards the Internet is just dumb. I’m getting all of these clips from YouTube but the morons ban embedding the clips, even though right below the official trailer there’s always 20 other copies of it. How dumb is that? Here are 5 hot movie […]
Sweeney Todd Is [Pardon The Expression] Bloody Good Fun!
No one thought that making a movie adaptation os Sweeney Todd was a good idea, though they certainly tried for a long time. Finally, the legendary Sondheim play came [or fell] into the hands of the one director who could take its stylishly macabre tale and do it justice. With playwright Stephen Sondheim performing surgery […]
Two Threequels & a Fourquel: The Bourne Ultimatum, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, and Live Free or Die Hard
Action movies have become increasingly sophisticated but the advent of CGI hasn’t completely taken over. The summer’s best threequels took radically different approaches: The Bourne Ultimatum was almost completely shot in camera; Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End was a bravura usage of CGI. Then there was the summer’s one fourquel, Live Free or […]