Sizing Up: Best Actor
We come now to part three of the Sizing Up series, various articles that deal with how to rank the chances of the various categories of Oscar contenders in a given year. This one is as close to an...
View Article‘American Hustle’ Moves Up a Week and ‘Monuments Men’ Gets February 2014 Release
The final pieces of the puzzle are beginning to fall into place for two Sony flicks. In the aftermath of George Clooney‘s film The Monuments Men being surprisingly bumped to next year, the decision has...
View ArticleBlood Brother (★★★)
The winner of the 2013 Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award, not to mention countless other awards internationally and in America, ‘Blood Brother‘ is a film about a young man named Robin James...
View ArticleMartin Scorsese Officially bringing ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ to theaters...
The odds had been increasing progressively for about a week or two now that Martin Scorsese would in fact have his new movie The Wolf of Wall Street ready for a holiday 2013 release, but now it’s been...
View ArticleFree Birds (★★★)
Pretty consistently throughout Free Birds, there’s a sense of almost old school Bugs Bunny mania. The manic nature is infectious and keeps the animated flick moving at a rapid clip, but it’s the almost...
View ArticleEnder’s Game (★★★)
While I’ve never read the cult favorite book that it’s based on (and likely won’t ever due to author Orson Scott Card‘s rather unfortunate and vocal opinions on certain social issues), Ender’s Game...
View ArticleThe Past (★★★½)
Academy Award nominated screenwriter Asghar Farhadi has proven to be a very skillful storyteller once again with his new film distributed by Sony Pictures Classics called The Past (Le passé), Iran’s...
View ArticleSecond Trailer for Jason Reitman’s ‘Labor Day’ Drops
After Jason Reitman unvieled his special online only cut Trailer of his new film Labor Day to the world, it was just a matter of time until a more standard one hit for the movie. Well, we have it for...
View ArticleThe Motel Life (★★★)
I’ve long been a fan of Emile Hirsch, so pretty much anything he’s involved in I want to take a look at. His latest film The Motel Life is just one more example of a small project made even more...
View ArticleThe Book Thief (★★½)
Pretty much all of the ingredients needed for a big Oscar contender are contained within The Book Thief…there’s just something else missing that ties it all in together and makes it work. If that...
View ArticleWeinstein Company To Host a Star-Studded Live Fan Event for ‘August: Osage...
Tonight brings an interesting event out in Los Angeles for fans of the upcoming Oscar contender August: Osage County. Basically, there’s going to be a Q and A with just about everyone involved in the...
View ArticleWill Forte Talks about Working with Bruce Dern and Alexander Payne
Last week, I was given the opportunity to sit down with many of the folks involved in Alexander Payne‘s new film Nebraska. I spoke to a number of cast members as well as scribe Bob Nelson, and I’ll be...
View ArticleFrozen (★★★½)
The most purely enjoyable Disney film I’ve seen in years, Frozen is a welcome throwback to some of their classic Princess films of yore. I literally left my screening last month humming a number of the...
View ArticleThe Hunger Games: Catching Fire (★★★)
An almost all around improvement on the already solid film that The Hunger Games was, Catching Fire (or officially The Hunger Games: Catching Fire) is a very well made and enjoyable flick that only has...
View ArticleDelivery Man (★★★)
Though almost completely the same as its original incarnation Starbuck, the comedy Delivery Man manages to actually be a slight improvement on the formula. Part of that has to do with a brisker feeling...
View ArticleTalking Animation with the Directors of ‘Frozen’
Late last month, I was invited to partake in a number of activities related to the new Disney film Frozen (my rave review of which can be found right here). One of those activities actually included...
View ArticleFirst Clip from Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’
The first clip of Martin Scorsese‘s The Wolf of Wall Street has emerged. The film will have its first guild screenings this coming Sunday in Los Angeles and Monday in New York. The movie stars Academy...
View ArticleOldboy (★½)
I’m not too big a fan of the original Oldboy, but in comparison to Spike Lee‘s new remake, the version from Chan-wook Park is basically a masterpiece. This one is all but terrible on nearly all levels,...
View Article‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ avoids NC-17, One Minute Shy of Three Hour Running...
Folks like Clayton and myself are very close to finally seeing Martin Scorsese‘s The Wolf of Wall Street, but even though the film is locked in and getting set to screen, new details are still...
View ArticleWatch ‘Please Mr. Kennedy’ from Inside Llewyn Davis
Personally, I’m not really that huge on watching little clips of films before they hit theaters/I sit down to a press screening. Most of the time, a trailer is more than enough for me. That being said,...
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