If you’re a screenwriter with a title for your next movie – Seven Psychopaths – and nothing else, what do you do? Let your best friend place a personal ad asking any psychopaths to come by and share their stories? If you’re Marty, Martin McDonagh’s frustrated screenwriter, that’s got to be an option.
Category: Movies
Here Comes The Boom: Rocky for the MMA Set!
Outside of substituting mixed martial arts for boxing and adding an opposites attract romance, Here Comes The Boom really doesn’t do very much that’s new. And yet, it works!
Taken 2: Second Verse Same As The First!
In Taken, Liam Neeson’s Bryan Mills tracked down the human traffickers who’d kidnapped his daughter and killed them. In Taken 2, relatives of the men he killed come after him seeking vengeance – but even with some serious attempts to do something different, the sequel is still too much of the same thing.
Frankenweenie Makes Up for Dark Shadows!
After Dark Shadows missed the mark by so much, it’s a relief to be able to say that Frankenweenie is vintage Tim Burton.
Hot Trailer: Parker–Jason Statham Takes On Richard Stark’s Iconic Hard-Boiled Career Criminal!
A lot of very good actors – including Mel Gibson and the late Lee Marvin – have played Richard Stark’s Parker. He’s a career criminal with a simple code: don’t steal from people who can’t afford it; don’t hurt anyone who doesn’t deserve it, and if you say you’ll do something and don’t, he’ll make […]
The Lone Ranger Trailer Hits!
Here it is the first trailer for Disney’s upcoming The Lone Ranger. I’m sorry, but I can’t get past Johnny Depp’s offensive and horrible looking makeup. But then that’s me.
Family Guy/Ted Creator To Host 2013 Oscars®!
Craig Zadon and Neil Meron, producers of the 85th Oscars®, have just announced that Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy, Ted) will be the host for the annual televised extravaganza. The 85the Oscars® will be telecast by ABC on Sunday, February 24th. The official press release follows the jump.
Pitch Perfect Is, Well, Pitch Perfect!
Pitch Perfect moves the kind of kids we see on Glee into college and focuses them on competitive cappella singing. Then it kicks up the humor and drama by adding sufficient crudity-with-a-heart to just barely avoid an R-rating and combining that with inventive arrangements of contemporary (and not so contemporary) hits.
Hotel Transylvania: Familiar Elements; Fun Twists!
Genndy Tartakovsky – who’s given us such delights as Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack and Star Wars: The Clone Wars – has taken a time-worn plot about an overly protective father and romance between a young couple who (really) come from different worlds and given it a lunatic freshness in Hotel Transylvania.
Dredd Is The Law!
The rebooted Judge Dredd movie, Dredd, is an action-packed ride that combines elements of the classic British series from the 2000AD magazine with the kind of triphammer percussiveness of Pantera. It doesn’t lay its Margaret Thatcher/Ronald Reagan government on steroids backdrop with a trowel, but the attitude of the comic is definitely the foundation […]
Almost Here: Neon Alley Sizzle Reel Reveals Launch Date!
Check out the Neon Alley sizzle reel – it reveals the launch date for the network that will stream uncut content direct to your TV through your PlayStation®3 game console; all English dub premieres of over a dozen of the most popular anime series, live action movies, and more.