Eon Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and Sony Pictures Entertainment announced that “Skyfall” earned £37.2 million in its opening week, overtaking “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2” to secure the biggest seven-day gross of all time in UK box office history. “Skyfall,” the 23rd James Bond adventure, continuing the longest running and most successful franchise […][...]
Review: The Girl
— by FIANNA MacGREGOR — They say you should never meet your heroes. After having been a teaching assistant in a couple of Hitchcock classes, I feel like he was a hero of sorts. The Birds was one of the scariest films I had seen as a child but I admit that I was more […][...]
Review: Escape Fire
— by BEV QUESTAD — There’s a burning inferno spreading quickly across forest land. Firefighters are dashing in desperation. One of the firefighters, Wag Dodge, thinks the only way out is to stop and set a fire where he stands. The others are sure he’s nuts and rush on. When the fire comes roaring down […][...]
7 Days of 007: The Top 5 Bond Theme Songs
— by SEAN GERSKI — When IJM Head of Writing Staff Eli Colon mentioned that he wanted to do a series of seven Top 5 lists leading up to “Skyfall,” I thought it was a great idea. In fact, I even offered to take one of them off of his hands. I picked[...]
Review: The Flat
— by FIANNA MacGREGOR — I watch a lot of genocide films since they are a large part of what I’m studying. This, of course, means watching more than my fair share of Holocaust films. Although not directly about the Holocaust, The Flat is a strange and unexpected story about the discovery of secrets following […][...]
Spider-Man Filmmakers Talk Blu-Ray, Sequel
— by SHERICE ANTOINETTE — At a press conference yesterday, director Marc Webb and visual effects supervisors Jerome Chen, David Schaub and Rob Engle answered questions about the Blu-ray/DVD release for “The Amazing Spider-Man” and It’s Just Movies was there to cover it. First off, Webb did address the Jamie Foxx rumor, which you can […][...]
7 Days of 007: The Top 5 Opening Sequences
— by JOSUE SANCHEZ — With seven days left until North American moviegoers finally get their chance to see the latest James Bond movie, “Skyfall,” we here at It’s Just Movies are hoping to make the wait a little easier for you by bringing you “7 Days of 007” this week. Each day we will […][...]
A New Trailer for Jack Reacher
— by CHERRY BELL DAMASCO-FARRINGTON — “One shot, one kill” is the military sniper’s creed – meaning each shot must count for the shooter. Tom Cruise is Jack Reacher, an Army Military Police officer who served during the Gulf War and has no home, no job, no car. As the opening monologue describes him in […][...]
Review: Flight
— by ADAM DALE — While Robert Zemeckis’ last two films – “A Christmas Carol” and “Beowolf” — didn’t garner much praise from critics, there is no denying he has a unique style of storytelling utilizing a very specific visual language that plays very well in his new film, “Flight,” starring Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle, […][...]
Trailer: Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
— by ADAM POYNTER — When it comes to a darker retelling of classic fairy tales, there has been no shortage in recent years, including Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” in 2010, Catherine Hardwicke’s “Red Riding Hood” in 2011 and this year’s “Snow White and the Huntsman” directed by Rupert Sanders. Now, relative newcomer Tommy […][...]