In our second and final Profile interviews, I sat down, via Zoom, to the writer, producer & director of the movie, Timur Bekmambetov! We talked about how he set up a meeting between the actress Valene Kane and real-life subject Anna Erelle and his film language, Screenlife, and where do we see it going for […]
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The Profile of Valene Kane
In the first of the PROFILE interviews, I sat down, via Zoom, with the actress who takes the life of real-life journalist Anna Erelle in the role of Amy Whittaker for the movie coming out to theatres THIS FRIDAY! During our conversation, we got to the heart of the matter with the cold hard facts […]
Ben-Hur Is Efficient But Unmoving!
I went in to the advance screening of Ben-Hur expecting a disaster. While the trailers weren’t brilliant, they showed both some promise and the possibility of a total bleep-up. Instead, it was neither the film of that promise nor the Golden Raspberry contender it could have been. It was a technically proficient film that had […]
Hardcore Henry: They Keep Killing Jimmy!
Hardcore Henry is a shot of pure adrenalin on top of an urn of coffee, a six-pack of Coke and about a pound of rice krispie treats. It replicates the experience of watching an expert play a first person shooter video game while layering in a love story and several unexpected dollops of wit.
MGM/Paramount’s Ben-Hur Begins Production!
Principal photography has begun on Ben-Hur, the Timur Bekmambetov-directed based on the Lew Wallace novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. Ben-Hur stars Jack Huston (American Hustle) as Judah Ben-Hur, Morgan Freeman as Ilderim (Red, Lucy), Toby Kebbell (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) as Messala and Nazanin Boniadi (Homeland) as Esther. Bekmambetov directs from a script […]
Creepy Trailer For Apollo 18 Explains Why We Never Went Back!
The latest ‘found footage’ film, Apollo 18 suggests a really creepy reason why we’ve never been back to the moon. Produced by Timur Bekmambetov [Night Watch, Wanted] and directed by Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego, Apollo 18 chronicles the fate of the 1973 moon mission we never knew was sent. Apollo 18 arrives in theaters April 22, 2011.
HIGH DEFINITION – Forget Blu-ray. Fox goes Boo-ray!
I apologize for being a little lax on updating this weekly column, but I’ve been busy putting the final touches on the upcoming EM Book. But wow, what a way to come back. The folks at Fox Home Vide are bringing a slew of their Horror classics to Blu-ray (or as they call it Boo-ray, […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Wanted misses its target. By Michelle Alexandria
The summer of the Comic-book movie continues this weekend with the launch of Wanted an adaptation of Mark Miller’s over the top graphic novel about a wimp who gets turned into an amoral, masochistic Super Villain. I had never heard of this book until the movie was announced last year. So I saw the film […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Wanted: Adrenaline-Squared!
Remember the scene in Pulp Fiction where Uma Thurman’s character overdoses and John Travolta’s character has to administer a shot of adrenaline directly to her heart? That is, roughly speaking, the effect that Timur Bekmambetov’s Wanted has on an audience. Wesley Gibson [James McAvoy] is a cubicle slave with an impressive, but meaningless title, and […]