The name J. Michael Riva is likely not familiar to you, but you have certainly seen the man’s work. Riva was the production designer on dozens of films over the years, from “The Goonies” to “Lethal Weapon” to “Iron Man” to the upcoming “Django Unchained” and “The Amazing Spider-Man”. While on location for “Django Unchained” in New Orleans, Riva […]
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It’s Thursday evening, meaning it’s time for me to once again hopelessly predict the tallies of this weekend’s box office stars. Two openers that could not be more different, Ridley Scott’s “Prometheus” and DreamWorks Animation’s “Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted,” are vying for the top slot. Let’s crunch some numbers. If one was to pay
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Read Critic Speak’s early review of “Flight” from the New York Film Festival here.
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Ray Bradbury, the prolific and award-winning author of science-fiction, died last night at age 91. Bradbury is best known for the 1953 novel “Fahrenheit 451,” about a dystopia in which books are outlawed. It was famously adapted into a 1966 film directed by François Truffaut and starring Julie Christie and Oskar Werner. Bradbury himself delved into
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With “The Avengers” setting new box office records for Disney and Marvel everyday, it’s only a matter of time before Warner Bros. green-lights a film featuring DC Comics’ competing superhero ensemble, the Justice League. Today, the studio is one step closer to doing so, after hiring screenwriter Will Beall to pen a prospective draft. Beall, a
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Above is the new trailer for “That’s My Boy,” starring Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg, which is about as heinous as two minutes of “comedy” could possibly be. Redband trailers are typically used to show off a movie’s best crude jokes… and apparently, in this movie, the best crude joke is Sandler saying “It tastes
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If the phrase “9-9-9” had just stopped ringing in your ears at night, don’t worry: the Herminator will be back. It was announced today that Herman Cain, former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza and everybody’s favorite GOP primary candidate, will get his own nationally syndicated radio show beginning January 21, 2013. Cain will inherit the program
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Set photos really aren’t my type of thing, but I know that many of you care, so the least I can do is pass along this one — our first glimpse of “Iron Man 3.” Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark appears to be sizing up his arsenal of iron suits in the scene. You can
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In what should prove bigger news than any of the awards handed out, the first trailer for “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” got its premiere at the MTV Movie Awards tonight. The film, which Stephen Chbosky adapted from his own very popular novel, stars Emma Watson, Logan Lerman, and Ezra Miller. It certainly appears
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Like the recent “Cabin in the Woods,” John Gulager’s “Piranha 3DD” proves that merely drawing attention to the cheap shortcomings of the horror genre does not equate to intelligently parodying them. Both films seem less interested in actual parody than the suggestion of parody — as if by consciously spewing garbage, the filmmakers will be
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