No one has ever accused Luc Besson of being a master filmmaker – despite gems like Léon: the Professional, La Femme Nikita and The Fifth Element. Part of that is because he likes to juxtapose things that are utterly real with things that are utterly ridiculous. Usually, that means putting a down-to-earth old school spy […]
Tag: Universal Pictures
First, Very Hot Trailer: Fifty Shades of Grey!
After all the hype and fuss about the casting, do I really need to say anything here? Just follow the jump. Fifty Shades of Grey – you’re Valentine’s Day, 2015 date (or not) flick.
Monstrous Trailer: Dracula Untold!
With vampires of the monstrous, non-sparkly variety about to make a comeback on FX’s The Strain, it’s interesting to discover a trailer for Dracula Untold – Legendary Picture’s first big release in partnership with Universal Pictures. It’s a tale of sacrifice, as Dracula surrenders his humanity for the power to save his family and his […]
A Million Ways to Die in the West – People Die at the Fair!
Seth MacFarlane plays a guy who gets shot and dumped by his girlfriend on the same day in his Western spoof, A Million Ways to Die in the West. I’m not sure why he thought a Western would be the way to go for his second movie – and the first in which he stars […]
Unsettling Trailer: The Purge: Anarchy!
One of last year’s unexpected hits, The Purge – set in a U.S. where once a year, for twelve hours, anything goes including murder – has spawned a sequel. The trailer for The Purge: Anarchy has just been released and it looks as unsettling as its progenitor. Check it out after the jump. The Purge: […]
Universal Pictures CinemaCon Presentation featured Fifty Shades of Grey, Lucy and more!
Universal Pictures chairwoman Donna Langley came to the CinemaCon party ready to rock and roll. The audience was thrilled to see brand new trailers for most of their upcoming slate of films. We were treated to sneak peaks from several highly anticipated films from 2015 including a very surprising first look at Fifty Shades of […]
Non-Stop Is Non-Stop Action, Non-Stop Implausible!
The cast and direction of Non-Stop are first-rate. They are infinitely better than the material they’re working with.
About Time Adroitly Mixes Time Travel and Romance!
Richard Curtis is responsible for such films as Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and Love Actually – romantic dramedies that detail burgeoning relationships that work, as often as not, because the people in them are flawed. For About Time, Curtis adds a very limited form of time travel to the mix in a […]
Flashy Trailer: 47 Ronin!
There’s a trailer for 47 Ronin, the martial arts/fantasy starring Keanu Reeves and Rinko Kikuchi. It looks… BIG! Check it out after the jump. 47 Ronin will be in theaters on Christmas Day.
Kick-Ass 2 Nails The Details, Misses The Heart!
The sequel to one of the oddest comic book satires (from the satirical superhero comic of the same name), Kick-Ass 2 remains as faithful to the details of the comic as the original, but wildly misses on the tone. It’s a case of a well-directed film that features some bravura performances but loses its way […]
Featurette: Wright, Pegg & Frost Talk The World’s End!
Edgar Wright’s The World’s End might the final entry in the so-called Cornetto Trilogy, but there’s a lot more than that going on in it. Wright and stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost talk about some of the movie’s themes in a new featurette, Not What It Used To Be (as in ‘The future…’). Check […]