The sequel to 2008’s Twilight proves that there’s something to be said for having a strong fan base.
Despite receiving reviews that range from lukewarm to downright cold, New Moon’s midnight release showed that a solid — and large — fan following can trump quality of movie as being the main factor in earning box office success.
New Moon’s [...]
While his performance in The Dark Knight earned Heath Ledger a posthumous Oscar, it won’t have the distinction of being the last movie to star the late actor.
On December 25th, audiences will be able to see Ledger on screen one last time in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Ledger’s death came during the filming of [...]
All has been quiet on the Julia Roberts front for quite some time now, which is unusual. In fact, her brother Eric Roberts is the one who has resurfaced and is coming back into the limelight with films like Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables, largely due to his great role in The Dark Knight.
But now, Julia [...]
The London penal system has no idea what to do with Michael Peterson, famously on record as its most violent criminal. If the film Bronson can be believed, their solution was to beat him intensely and often. Strangely, that’s also director Nicolas Winding Refn’s answer to his subject. Bronson, so named because Peterson adopts the full [...]
Columbia Pictures fills up its schedule, putting together a sequel for the Nicolas Cage 2007 film Ghost Rider. In talks to pen the script is scribe David Goyer who previously worked on The Dark Knight and The Unborn. Actor Nicolas Cage will be reprising his role as the motorcycle riding demon, no word at all [...]
Ahhh, the benefits of a Jesuit education. Saint Louis University graduate James Gunn, writer of Scooby Doo, Slither, Dawn of the Dead and the upcoming Super (which we talked about here) has been making the rounds preparing for production on his self-proclaimed dark comedic take on a superhero. The film stars Rainn Wilson of The [...]
Scott Sanders’ blaxploitation homage Black Dynamite is one of those films I feel like I’ve heard about for the past year without hearing a concrete word on whether it’s good or not. Regardless, we’ve got the last trailer for the film before its release on October 16th this year.
The film stars Michael Jai White (famous [...]
You may not have heard of The 4th Reich yet, but soon you’ll be hearing much more along with news of the film’s director, Shaun Robert Smith. The film, which begins production in April, is the first feature film from Smith, whose short film The Soldier displayed an excellent knack of cinematography and suspense. It also won a small boatload of awards and gained a national theatrical release in the UK.
Comic books have been integrated into our worldwide society for years now. When the comic strip was born with “Tintin”, the blossoming of Japanese manga (with works such as “Astro Boy’”) to the birth of the superhero with “Superman”, we cannot deny the impact they have played on our lives. The storytelling, illustrations and engaging [...]
I feel like Avatar Day was only a few days ago (it was), and already midnight showings for Avatar on the morning of December 18th are selling tickets at AMC theaters, over four months away from the release of the film.
Considering the relatively lukewarm reception that Avatar Day had — I’m basing this on the fact that [...]
My thoughts after seeing the Inception trailer with some Basterds (going for a third time today) this weekend were pretty mute. The images were nice and gave off a sort of Matrix feel to the project. However, that’s not why I felt mute to it as I still love the first Matrix. My problem with [...]
There was a moment in which the Spiderman film franchise looked to be possibly dead in the water, and seemed an uneven string of works for director Sam Raimi. The first film was good but flawed, the second film incredible; the third film left such a bad taste in many people’s mouths that it became hard [...]
