When it came to magician-heist actioner Now You See Me, the biggest magic trick it pulled off, in my opinion, was making $351 million at the box office. Sure it was flashy and entertaining in places, but it completely underutlized its stellar cast and tried to be too clever for its own good with nudge-nudge, wink-wink plot twists stretching plausibility …
2013 – The year of the White House. Or more accurately, the year of movies about terrorists trying to take over the White House, as director Roland Emmerich and star Channing Tatum’s White House Down went toe to toe with director Antoine Fuqua and star Gerard Butler’s Olympus Has Fallen. Personally, while I didn’t think either film was really spectacular, …
It seems that whenever somebody gets an idea in Hollywood for a big blockbuster, somebody else seemingly gets the exact same one! This is has led to thematic rivalries like Volcano vs Dante’s Peak, Armageddon vs Deep Impact, The Prestige vs The Illusionist, The Matrix vs The 13th Floor and of course, who can forget the classic battle between Thrashin’ …
While the prospect of watching Clive Owen and Morgan Freeman go medieval on some fools is an enticing one, I wouldn’t get too excited yet about upcoming sword-swinging actioner Last Knights. Completed by Japanese filmmaker Kazuaki Kiriya (The Legend of Goemon) back in 2012 already, it appears that this Korean-funded film has just been sitting on the shelf somewhere for the last two years …
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Last week I posted about the new Ben-Hur movie and that taking up the lead role of Judah Ben-Hur would be Jack Huston of Boardwalk Empire fame. Some more information has come out of an interview from ComingSoon.net who spoke to Academy award winning screenwriter John Ridley (12 Years a Slave) about his treatment of the 1959 movie. Of course …
Lucy is a conundrum: A thinking man’s action movie that shouldn’t be thought about too hard. It’s loud and brash, filled with Bay-esque car chases and the type of architecture destroying hallway shootouts that would make a Wachowski sibling envious. And yet, it’s also kind of trippy, going from kaboom to Cosmos in a microsecond, and filled with all sorts of ponderings …
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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