— by ROBERT DeFEIS — Brittany Murphy plays the role of Alice in this film, a women traveling to a Victorian type of house with her best friend, Lucy (Thora Birch), to finish her screenplay before her fast-approaching deadline. Shortly after her arrival, mysterious[...]
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Short Film Theater: ‘Panic Attack’
— by ROBERT DeFEIS — Fede Alvarez is from Uruguay and is the great mind behind this short film. For me, I really enjoy watching short films, since my friends and I even enjoy making a short here and there. It is a fun process and all the while you are learning the ins[...]
Trailer Talk: ‘The Last Station’
— by JASON EAKEN — I’ve never been a fan of stuffy British movies. The Merchant-Ivory collection would be wasted on me. I don’t know what it is, it just seems like a slog. In the opening moments of the trailer for “The Last Station,” I felt that pang of stuffiness[...]
Trailer Talk: ‘Breaking Point’
— by ROBERT DeFEIS — When you’re watching this trailer, you may get a sense that “Breaking Point” can actually be a serious contender for an indie film of this kind. That really surprised me, because when I first saw Busta Rhymes was in this I chuckled — I think we all know[...]
Under Review: ‘Antichrist’
— by JASON EAKEN — “Nature is Satan’s Church” — tagline from the film. It is a firmly held belief of mine that I would rather see a well-made movie I disagree with than a poorly made film that plays it safe. In some cosmic or telepathic way, Lars von Trier has[...]
Trailer Talk: ‘Princess of Mars’
— by ROBERT DeFEIS — This film is based on the novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs and is a pretty weird sci-fi flick. Antonio Sabato Jr. plays the role of John Carter, a U.S. soldier who became transported to Mars where a war wages between two alien races. James Cameron, the man[...]
Trailer Talk: ‘Toy Story 3’ (International Version)
— by BEN FOWLER — Can you believe “Toy Story” came out 14 years ago? The (mis)adventures of Woody, Buzz and co. captivated the hearts and minds of children everywhere then and now it seems that “Toy Story 3” is going to pull off the same trick next year[...]
Trailer Talk: ‘The Strip’
— by ROBERT DeFEIS — This film is about a group of five guys who work at a low-end electronics store called Electri-City in a strip mall. These five men are happy and content being losers at an electronics store and they never want to grow up. Glenn (Dave Foley) worked his way to manager[...]
Go On ‘The Road’ With This Featurette
— by JASON EAKEN — I read Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” in about two days this past summer. The writing is immediate and stark, and it has a very terse quality that really worked. I’m eager to see the movie, due in large part to director John Hillcoat (2006’s[...]
Under Review: ‘Me and Orson Welles’
— by JASON EAKEN — Zac Efron and Orson Welles: if ever there was a more unlikely combination, for the life of me I cannot conjure it. Yet here they are in Richard Linklater’s “Me and Orson Welles,” a film whose sentimentally simplistic title indicates its own merits and demerits[...]
Trailer Talk: ‘Beastly’
— by MARIUSZ ZUBROWSKI — I’m pretty sure that everyone on this site has heard about or read the classic story “The Beauty and the Beast,” but I’m also sure that almost nobody has heard about the retelling of this beloved tale entitled “Beastly.”[...]
A Clip from ‘Brothers’
— by ROBERT DeFEIS — “Brothers” tells the story of Captain Sam Cahill (Tobey Maguire) and his younger brother Tommy Cahill (Jake Gyllenhaal) — two polar opposites of each other. Sam is very much a family man, as he is married to his high school sweetheart Grace (Natalie[...]
The Top 5 underrated James Cameron projects
— by CHAS BLANKENSHIP — James Cameron is a name synonymous with highly-calibrated action sequences, thought-provoking narrative, finely-tuned editing and visual effects and solidly-executed cast performances … his work with the “Terminator” films, “Aliens” and “Titanic”[...]
Under Review: ‘Broken Embraces’
— by MARIUSZ ZUBROWSKI — We’ve all heard about drama going on during the filming of the latest Hollywood hit. Anything from slurs being thrown about to fists flying, but no cast experienced the drama that the fictional film’s “Girls and Suitcases” cannot match. Be[...]