Not content to own the box office with Marvel and Star Wars blockbusters, Disney is still furiously working to bring many of their classic animated children’s tales to the big screen in live-action form. Following the success of 2014’s Maleficent, the origin story of Sleeping Beauty’s villainous antagonist, another such origin story is in the works – namely Cruella de …
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Who would ever have thought that Bradley Cooper, the guy who starred in Kitchen Confidential and The Midnight Meat Train, would one day not only be starring in a movie from writer-director Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous, Jerry Maguire), but that he would arguably be a bigger drawcard than the Oscar-winning filmmaker. After 2005’s Elizabethtown, Crowe had seemingly fallen off the map a bit, …
Riggan Thomson (Michael Keaton) had it all in the 1990s. A career to die for, million dollar movie gigs and an adoring public that couldn’t get enough of his work in Birdman, the seminal superhero action franchise of a pointless decade. Fast forward to reality however, and Thomson is no longer the supernova that he once was, as this fading …
This is it. The big one. The grandaddy of them all. Yes, the nominations for the 87th Annual Academy Awards, aka the Oscars 2015, are finally here. Held at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theatre in Beverly Hills, California last night, the nominations for all 24 categories were made available altogether (a first for the event), presented by actor Chris Pine, directors …
To me, Michael Keaton will always be the Batman. There was something unmistakably cool about him in his two outings, with performances that will follow him to the grave and beyond. Of course, Keaton has done so much more since then, but he’ll always be linked to Batman. And in a very meta-nutshell, that’s what Birdman is all about. BIRDMAN …
Let’s be honest about Woody Allen’s last film, Blue Jasmine: Cate Blanchett was fantastic in it and fully deserving of all the awards buzz she received, but the film as a whole just didn’t match up to her high bar. This is especially apparent when viewed in comparison to Allen’s previous jaunt, the magically charming Midnight in Paris. But based on …
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Traci Braxton husband was Kevin Surratt Sr., a longtime partner who stood by her …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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