Revenant: 2.A person or thing reborn (Wiktionary). Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s The Revenant is adapted from a novel that was based on real events, so it comes by its PR as ‘inspired by true events’ the long way round – but that does not lessen its impact. The Revenant is a riveting tale of brutal survival […]
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Snow and Fire Trailer: The Revenant!
How do you follow up winning an Oscar® for sci-fi masterpiece Birdman? If you’re Alejandro G. Iñárritu, you go into the past to tell the story legendary explorer Hugh Glass – and his survival following an attack by a bear and betrayal by his most trusted confidant, John Fitzgerald. In short, you make The Revenant – […]
The Wolf of Wall Street Swaggers Onto Home Video In March!
One of the most acclaimed films of 2013, The Wolf of Wall Street is coming to home video on March 25th in the form of a Blu-Ray+DVD Combo Pack. Both formats will feature the theatrical release of the film, while the Blu-Ray will also contain The Wolf Pack – a featurette in which ‘Martin Scorsese, […]
The Wolf of Wall Street – It’s All Fun &Games ‘til You Go to Jail!
Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street is a gloriously debauched rigs-to-riches-to-jail tale that soars for its first two-and-a-half hours – then changes tone and runs out of steam. It deserves its hard R-rating.
Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Wall Street Gets Christmas Release!
Martin Scorsese’s film about the shift from the American dream to corporate greed – through the story of New York stockbroker Jordan Belfort – has been moved up to a Christmas Day release. It’s an epic tale of money, power, drugs and women starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Belfort. Follow the jump for links to trailers […]
The State of Pixar, DiCaprio as Woodrow Wilson, Cranston as Trumbo, TV to Film Adaptations
If you’re a history nerd, like many of the folks over at GeekScholars Movie News, you’re going to especially love this week’s podcast. To start, the hosts delve into the details regarding two very intriguing biopics in the works: Leonardo DiCaprio playing U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, and Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) tackling the life of […]
Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street Trailer is a Real Party!
The latest Martin Scorsese/Leonardo DiCaprio collaboration, The Wolf of Wall Street, is based on the memoir by Jordan Belfort. It’s the story of the scam artist who was indicted in 1998 for bilking investors of more than $200 million. That sounds kinda dry, but Belfort was a real party animal so the film – which […]
Baz Luhrmann’s Gatsby is Spectacular!
I had much the same reaction to The Great Gatsby that I had to Les Miserables – I could probably enumerate a ton of flaws, but I just don’t care because the overall experience is spectacular. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s slim novel presented cool characters with understandable motivations and simultaneously captured the essence of an era […]
Hot Trailer: The Great Gatsby!
Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby opens May 10th.
Inception: Christopher Nolan’s Little Heist Flick!
Christopher Nolan’s Inception is, at its heart, a heist flick and, therefore, adheres to the conventions of one: finding a target, selecting a team, creating the plan and pulling the heist – only something goes awry and improvisation is called for. The only real differences are that a) the idea is not to steal something, […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Shutter Island – Martin Scorsese’s Big, Bad [And That’s Good] B-Movie Noir!
In many reviews, I have castigated directors and writers for that matter] of failing to make a successful thriller/horror/noir film because they went into it with one tone – usually grey. There are precious few breaks in the bleakness of Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island and yet I never felt bored by its unremittingly ominous tone. […]