New Moon: Introducing Team Jacob
For fans, the Twilight saga has become a sort of sporting event pitting one team against another. Team Edward was crazed upon the release of last year’s Twilight, and while New Moon is definitely geared toward “the other team,” there is more than adequate sexual tension and angst to satisfy both.
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Up is still in my top three films of the year. Even now with it’s release on Blu-ray, the gut-punch still gets me and it’s still a marvelous film to watch. The Blu-ray is also no slouch in it’s pristine presentation of the film, it also features a nice batch of extras that go into [...]
I recently sat down and watched Amanda Gusack’s In Memorium, and found it to be just as enjoyable as Oren Peli’s smash success Paranormal Activity. You can read my review of the film right here. I also had the chance to briefly interview the screenwriter/director about the state of In Memorium and the possibilities for [...]
![[Exclusive Interview] Norman Reedus on The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day](http://www.atomicpopcorn.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Boon-Dock-Saints-II-poster-272x120.jpg)
After all these years the Boondock Saints sequel is finally coming out. After years of rumors and all the die-hard fan’s heartaches, it’s now actually making it’s way to the big screen. In light of this, here’s what one of the film’s stars Norman Reedus had to say about the original, the sequel and what can be [...]
This is a great year for George Clooney. He’s got Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air on the horizon, as well as Grant Heslov’s The Men Who Stare At Goats. Both films look superb.
It could also be a great year for you, because you stand a chance at winning goodies from The Men Who Stare [...]
Saw is starting to become more of an event than a film, which is actually ok. Why shouldn’t there be a horror series that gets released every Halloween just to stay in the spirit of things? And hey, at least Lionsgate seems to put effort into these movies instead of make them cash-ins. With Saw [...]
More Than A Game hit me a on a personal level. No, I didn’t spew hate all over it because it involves a Cleveland team nor did I walk out of the theater cursing Kristopher Belman for being a Clowns fan or supporting LeBron James. No, his film impacted me in the sense that I [...]
We’ve all gone to the movies and said “I can make a better film then that.” Personally, I’ve said that more than most, being a part-time film critic and part-time filmmaker. But how easy is it really to make the Next Great American Film? Truth is, not all that simple. To say that the stars [...]
PHILIP BARRETT: What’s ironic about Where the Wild Things Are happens to involve a conversation I had with fellow critic Anders Wright of San Diego’s City Beat before the film. I kindly asked him what his expectations for the film where. “You know, Philip,” he said, “I’ve learned not to set the bar too high [...]
Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are, a 90-minute adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s 43-year-old children’s book which barely spans a handful of pages, is a thing of absolute beauty. It is beautiful in cinematography, beautiful in performance and dialogue, and beautiful in silent moments between every wild thing that occurs onscreen. It’s a family film [...]
Atomic Popcorn has again been given the opportunity to sponsor yet another upcoming release for you all to enjoy for FREE! The upcoming movie from Universal, The Fourth Kind, really creeps me out. Not on the paranormal Activity level but close. The film stars my favorite female ass kicker – Milla Jovoich, as a psychologist [...]
![[Interview] Michael Stuhlbarg](http://www.atomicpopcorn.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Michael-Stuhlbarg--150x150.jpg)
Last week I got the chance to participate in a roundtable with Michael Stuhlbarg, the lead actor of A Serious Man. The main focus of our conversation was on the themes and ideas in the film and thankfully Michael had some very interesting things to say. It’s an incredible film that ranks amongst the Coens’ [...]
