I initially started watching The Blacklist just to see the always fantastic James Spader doing his thing on TV again, but in the end I kept on watching because… well, actually, it was still to see the always fantastic James Spader doing his thing on TV again. That doesn’t mean though that the show didn’t have more to offer, as the show’s freshman …

Writer-director J.C. Chandor turned in a masterpiece of a thriller with just one man and a boat in last year’s Oscar nominated All Is Lost. Admittedly that one man was the legendary Robert Redford, but it was still a monumental achievement. Now Chandor is back with A Most Violent Year and this time he may not have a boat anymore, but he does …

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Good news/Bad news. The two seem to be inseparable, and the movie business is definitely no exception to their calamitous duality. If you were hootin’ and hollerin’ about the decidedly good news this morning that Fox has greenlit and dated Deadpool at last, then here’s that obligatory bad news to go with it: Finally pencilling in the Merc With a Mouth Movie wasn’t the only change …

  The first trailer for Tim Burton’s ‘not featuring Johnny Depp or Helen Bonham Carter’ Big Eyes is out and it looks like it’s going to open some eyes… Wide… Based on the true story of Walter Keane (Christopher Waltz, me thinks Oscar material, again) and his wife Margaret (Amy Adams, Oscar nominee for American Hustle) the story tells of …

I’ve got a soft spot in me heart for Popeye. This is a character that has been around for decades, using legal growth hormone spinach to get out of sticky situations and save the day. There’s something about the early cartoons from the Fleischer series that are still watchable to this day, a certain magic that subsequent adaptations have been …

I rather enjoyed director Chris McQuarrie’s Jack Reacher for the no-frills, old school action movie that it was (so did Noelle), despite the fact that the script expected us to believe that part-time human speed bump Tom Cruise is apparently as physically imposing as the giant man-mountain that author Lee Child envisioned in his series of novels from which the movie is …

Million Dollar Arm The first of our new releases this week is Million Dollar Arm, a “based on a true story” comedy drama. In a last-ditch effort to save his career as a sports agent, JB Bernstein (John Hamm) concocts a scheme to find baseball’s next great pitching ace. Hoping to find a young cricket pitcher he can turn into …