When the credits started to roll at the end of Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island, I was left with an unexpected question. What was the point? Here is a film that would have won Oscars aplenty back in 1956, the year it takes place. But alas, it is now 2010 and there isn’t a single idea [...]

I have been stoked for the release of Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio’s most recent collaboration, Shutter Island, since back in October when I saw the trailer before Paranormal Activity. While I’m a huge Leo fan and am partial to pretty much anything with him in it, the fact that Shutter Island has Scorsese and [...]

Adam Green’s Frozen is one of the finest pieces of survival horror I’ve ever seen. The set-up is simple, the logistics are plausible, the characters dynamic, and the threat is terrifyingly real. The result is a picture that authenticates those feelings of helplessness, mounting dread and blood-chilling desperation that come with similar real-life scenarios. Following [...]

Meet Charlie Wax. He’s a loud, boorish American whose bald-head, quirky shades and ‘screw you’ attitude suggest Bruce Willis’ midlife crisis. Charlie is also a spy, living in France while working to stop an intricate and dangerous web of Chinese drug dealers and Pakistani terrorists. Spy protocol would suggest dealing with such a complex and [...]

After winning last year’s Oscar for Best Documentary, director James Marsh is moving onto feature films with The Vatican Tapes. The film is a supernatural thriller (of course it is, everything is these days) that follows the events set in motion when a tape showing a botched exorcism by the Vatican is leaked. Rather than [...]

Darren Aronofsky, director of the 2000 hit Requiem for a Dream, is back with his next project, Black Swan. Black Swan is a supernatural thriller that follows dancers within the New York City Ballet. In particular, the film centers on Nina, a veteran of the stage who must fight to keep her place in the [...]

Bradley Cooper, who shot to stardom in this summer’s The Hangover, has replaced Shia LeBeouf to star in Relativity Media’s Dark Fields. Cooper will be playing a writer who’s down on his luck and manages to stumble upon a secret pharmaceutical drug designed to make a person smarter. The drug leads to the writer gaining [...]

Here now, a brief four months after his untimely death, is the vindication that Michael Jackson’s fans have been waiting for. This Is It, for better or worse, is the last word on Jackson as a performer and it’s presented here as the ‘dream’ of a concert that no one will ever get to see. [...]