Joseph Kosinski’s Tom Cruise-Starring Sci-fi Flick Gets Two Leading Ladies
Talk about cinematic whiplash. Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinksi‘s next project has already gone through myriad incarnations, and the project doesn’t even have an official name yet. Count that as...
View ArticleSundance 2012 Review: ‘Shadow Dancer’ Keeps You in the Dark for Too Long
Collette McVeigh seems to be a fairly normal little girl, creating beaded necklaces and bribing her younger brother into running a quick errand for their father that she does not want to do herself....
View ArticleReview: Madonna’s ‘W.E.’ Is a Visually Attractive Mess of a Movie
Madonna’s second directorial effort W.E. has been greeted by a torrent of negativity, with critics assailing her revisionist portrait of the illicit romance between King Edward VIII and the American...
View ArticleTom Cruise’s ‘Oblivion’ Poaches ‘Game of Thrones’ Star Nicolaj Coster-Waldau
Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski’s upcoming sci-fi project Oblivion has grown in hype quite a bit since it was first announced. Mostly that’s due to the fact that Tom Cruise signed on to be its...
View ArticleBerlin Film Festival Review: James Marsh’s ‘Shadow Dancer’ Is a Thriller...
The image of the bomb is an apt one for Shadow Dancer. As a hunk of parts with a timer, there’s nothing naturally threatening about a bomb; it’s the explosion that matters. Hitchcock was right, and in...
View ArticleAndrea Riseborough and Chris Cooper Set to Get Tangled in Twisted ‘August:...
Good luck untangling the twisted mess that is the family tree at the center of Tracy Letts‘ soon-to-be-adapted play, August: Osage County. Of course, that’s all part of the story of the Pulitzer...
View ArticleReview: ‘Welcome to the Punch’ Lets James McAvoy’s Balls Drop
For a movie made for $8.5 million, Welcome to the Punch is strikingly polished. While that’s a prominent amount of cash, writer and director Eran Creevy makes every penny count. For the brisk...
View ArticleReview: ‘Oblivion’ is a Black Hole of Borrowed Sci-Fi Ideas
Joseph Kosinski‘s Oblivion is a lot like a fireworks display on a Tuesday. It has no real reason to exist, and while the visuals are exciting, they only impress for fifteen minutes before things get...
View Article‘Shadow Dancer’ Trailer: Clive Owen Tangos with Terrorists
“The bomb is an excellent image for Shadow Dancer. On its own, it rests on a table not harming anyone. It takes time and a catalyst to kill, but it’s the ticking that will drive you mad.” That’s from...
View ArticleReview: ‘Oblivion’ Is Gorgeous Spectacle Painted With a Very Familiar Brush
Oblivion is many things. [pause for laughter from readers who've seen the film] It’s a thrilling mix of science fiction, action and discovery. It’s visually stunning and filled with beauties both CGI...
View Article9 Big Questions Left Unanswered by ‘Oblivion’
Oblivion is the kind of science fiction movie that plays with a lot of other movies’ toys and forgets to clean them up afterward. Then we all step on a HAL 9000 doll in the middle of the night when...
View ArticleRemake Report: New Villains for The Crow and The Magnificent Seven
Universal Pictures Here are some casting updates to two remakes in the works, both of them garnering more of my interest as a result: First, Deadline reports that Andrea Riseborough will likely play...
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