The four lead actors in Killing Them Softly are some of the strongest actors working today. Each one has the ability to inhabit the character and go beyond our expectations. Here is a list of must see flicks by these actors and what they played in their newest movie. Brad Pitt: The charismatic talkative hit […]
If you were stranded on a lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with minimal supplies and an unlikely adversary, would you be able to survive?
Life of Pi Director Ang Lee hasn’t really racked up a lot of movies like some directors, but what he lacks in quantity he makes up for in quality. He has a meticulous style that’s fairly invisible as the movies seem to materialize organically in an original arty and stylistic way. This is mainly due […]
Fusing a 16th century kung fu style and innovative video game techniques together, the eye-popping film known as Tai Chi Zero, is blowing away audiences everywhere.
Thank God it’s over. No more taking off of shirts. No more glittering. No more teen fans swooning over vampires.
“Compromise … or you risk it all,” the President of the United States warns an ideologically rigid member of his own party—and no, you haven’t just walked into a Campaign 2012 reality show. The setting is January 1865 in Steven Spielberg’s grandly intimate Lincoln, and it’s Abraham Lincoln (Daniel Day-Lewis) trying to shore up support […]
Shenandoah (1965) A saga depicting the impact on families divided by the nation’s split. Touching and propelled by Jimmie Stewart’s great performance as a Virginia farmer during the war. He doesn’t believe in the fight or care to have anything to do with it. Problem is, the Shenandoah Valley, where his farm lies, is in […]
Man with the Iron Fists showed promise for about fifteen minutes and then began smashing itself in the head with its own fists for the duration.
This mess is brought to us by Grindhouse maestro Quentin Tarantino, but written by Eli (Hostel) Roth and writer/director/star, RZA. RZA has come a long way from Wu-Tang Clan, but by being the man in front of and behind the camera he definitely shows us that he isn’t really capable of being in either role.
Silent Hill: Revelation has earned a seat at the worst movie of 2012 competition. This movie, like its predecessor, is based on the Silent Hill video games and may now join the ranks of videogame to big screen failures.
Taking over where the first Silent Hill left off, this new addition follows Dad (Sean Bean) and his daughter (Adelaide Clemens) in their plight to stay clear of the Silent Hill monsters. It’s all based on some sort of ridiculous medieval sacrifice to the gods in a coal-mining underworld.
There is nobility in striving for a cause that seems foolhardy, toward a goal that, if reached, could bring greater joy and understanding to the world. That’s one of the many ideas bubbling through the sprawling Cloud Atlas, yet it’s also pretty clearly a way of thinking about the project itself.
David Mitchell’s 2004 novel seems like it should be unfilmable, with its six semi-stand-alone stories that span centuries from the 1840s to a 23rd-century post-apocalypse.
You’d have to be slightly nuts to think three different directors—The Matrix trilogy’s Andy and Lana Wachowski, and Run Lola Run’s Tom Tykwer—could wrangle that material into something that works as a cohesive three-hour cinematic experience instead of a frantic, over-ambitious cacophany.
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