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 …
Period-pieces dramas tend to often be brushed off as musty, boring affairs, and period-piece dramas based on old plays even more so. Miss Julie is a period-piece drama based on an old play. It’s also a movie in which a bossy, sexualized Jessica Chastain forces her servant Colin Farrell to kiss her shoe, and later sees Farrell having to pour cold water …
“Eleanor Rigby”, the Beatles’ haunting song about missed connections in life is one of my favourite and most frequently played songs from the Fab Four. Then one day, when I wanted to play it, I found that I had somehow deleted it by accident when I was doing some hard drive cleanups. I was able to recover it from my …
I have no idea what the back half of 2014 has to offer in terms of TV thrills, but whatever comes down the tubes is going to have to be miraculously good to top HBO’s True Detective. Creator/writer/producer Nic Pizzolatto’s decades spanning gothic crime drama anthology series, under Cary Fukunag’s taut direction, was a masterpiece in layered storytelling and just plain …
When it comes to Chris Nolan movies, details about them are usually locked down tighter than a signed Nkandla receipt. So it comes with some surprise that the first full trailer for the super-clandestine writer-director’s latest flick, Interstellar, actually tells us a bit about what is actually going on. Note: I said “a bit”. Nolan hasn’t turned into an Amazing Spider-Man 2 …
Welcome to The Extras! A daily dose of all the smaller movie related news, clips and just plain cool stuff that you might have missed! Last Updated: April 25, 2014
Welcome to The Extras! A daily dose of all the smaller movie related news, clips and just plain cool stuff that you might have missed! Last Updated: April 24, 2014
We all love a good ghost story, and if you’ve been reading The Movies for a while you know that we love anything watermarked by Guillermo Del Toro. The sight of his name on a poster converts our money directly into popcorn and soda, even in the cases when he’s not the director. Last Updated: September 6, 2013
When folks find themselves involved in a personal injury case, they typically only think …
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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