Forty years ago today, a French tightrope artist named Philippe Petit walked from one World Trade Center tower to the other on an illegal wire. It was a caper worthy of Mission: Impossible and the subject of an award-winning documentary, Man on Wire. But neither Petit’s book, To Reach The Clouds, nor Man on Wire […]
Tag: TriStar Pictures
Moms’ Night Out – Girls Just Want A Night Off!
The trailers for Moms’ Night Out suggest a girls’ night out with a dash of Adventures in Babysitting. They don’t suggest it might be a faith-based movie. Oddly enough, the mainstream approach – with its very light touch – works surprisingly well. It ain’t art – but it ain’t ham-fisted (at least in respect to […]
Pompeii Flops Spectacularly!
Pompeii wants to be Spartacus, The Towering Inferno and a romantic drama. One out of three is not good.
One Direction: This Is Us Expands–New Cut Includes 20 Minutes of New Footage!
It looks like One Direction has given director Morgan ‘Supersize Me’ Spurlock his biggest hit – prompted by fan support, TriStar Pictures is releasing a super-sized cut to theaters on Friday. The new cut will contain 20 minutes of new footage and four new songs. Check out the press release, after the jump, for details.
Hot (Really Hot) Trailer: Pompeii!
Game of Thrones’ Kit Harrington stars as a slave who must try to save the woman he loves in Paul W.S. Anderson’s Pompeii. Check out the movie’s first trailer after the jump. Pompeii will open on February 21, 2014.
Elysium Might Have Too Much Action!
The idea of setting a film in a world where the 1% live on a giant space station and all of Earth is a third world country is a good one, but I think there might actually be too much action in it and the allegory might be a bit too on the nose. Still, […]
Hot Trailer: Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium!
There’s a new, extended trailer for Elysium – Neill Blomkamp’s follow-up to District 9 that stars Matt Damon and Jodie Foster. It looks pretty cool. Check it out after the jump. Elysium opens on August 9th.
Evil Dead – Pretty Groovy!
Remakes tend to be awful – not always, but most of the time – and yet, hope lives eternal. Evil Dead not only had the stamp of approval from the original film’s creators, they also produced it – so there was some cause for hope. Of course, it also followed Joss Whedon’s Cabin in the […]