Given its pedigree and hype, one would expect “Prometheus” to have Great Film written all over it. This is an even more important label than Oscar Material, because Great Films are the ones that set the standards and populate the coffee table books, becoming the currency of Best lists and endless debates about what works […]
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Get ready to see Leonard DiCaprio as a sadistic slave master, as the new trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” has hit the web. The film, a Western (or “Southern,” as Tarantino has called it) sees Jamie Foxx as the eponymous Django, a freed slave looking to liberate his wife from the clutches of plantation
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“Wreck-It Ralph”, Disney’s newest animated feature geared towards those who spent their youth cramming quarters and tokens into video game machines, has a new trailer. The film stars John C. Reilly as Wreck-It Ralph, a classic video game baddie who infiltrates other games in order to play the hero for once. The trailer features a
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Would it surprise you to learn that Kristen Stewart makes an unconvincing military leader? The fact that I can even start a review of “Snow White and the Huntsman” that way cements the film’s status as one of the summer’s more peculiar would-be hits. Stylistically, the film pushes no particularly eccentric boundaries, but one can
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If George Lucas is to believed, his detractors might not have to worry about another round of films as dismal as the new “Star Wars” entries. Lucas has told Empire Magazine this month that he is retiring from major filmmaking to concentrate on “hobby” projects. Lucas, in addition to being the creator of “Star Wars,”
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Two iconic actors revered for their iconic performances as now iconic boxers are looking to step back into the ring together. Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone are reportedly in talks to star in “Grudge Match” for Warner Bros. The film is a comedy about two retired boxers looking to settle an old score with
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A new trailer for “The Bourne Legacy,” the newest entry in the spy franchise, has hit the web. Although Matt Damon declined to reprise his role as Jason Bourne, the character’s shadow obviously looms large in this universe, which now sees Jeremy Renner as an invulnerable spy turning on his crooked CIA bosses. Rachel Weisz
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Soon, fans will see the televised return of both Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling. The catch is that they won’t be together, or even in the same show. Lifetime has begun developing “Clarice,” a series that follows the exploits of the protagonist of the “The Silence of the Lambs”, originally played by Jodie Foster. This
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After nearly four years absent from the big screen, Will Smith decided to make his return with a sequel no one asked for. “Men in Black 3” could practically be imagined by anyone blessed with an ounce of imagination, and until the third act, that’s about what we get. The first film was a smash
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Nearly 40 years after The Exorcist convinced millions that all a psychopathic child needs is a priest, the property is making a leap to TV. Sean Durkin, the writer-director of last year’s critical favorite Martha Marcy May Marlene, is adapting The Exorcist into a TV series. The series, paid for by Morgan Creek and produced
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