Hot on the heels of Comic-Con comes a pair of new trailers for Alfonso Cuarón’s long-gestating project, Gravity, which stars America’s sweetsharts Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. Let’s watch them after the jump. Continue reading
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Hundreds of comic book nerds passed out when Zach Snyder, director of Man of Steel, revealed a logo for a Batman vs Superman movie at Comic-Con in San Diego. Hundreds more reportedly bodily ascended out of the convention center and achieved nerdvana, becoming as one with the nerdiverse. Reports are hazy, but it appears the auditorium was deprived of oxygen by the collective gasps of nerdmazement when the logo appeared in the darkened auditorium. Into the darkness, actor Harry Lennix read a quote from the iconic 1980s comic series, The Dark Knight Returns which concludes with an epic Batman-Superman showdown: Continue reading
Summer is nearly over, chickens. Well, maybe not, but I’m telling myself it is so that I don’t focus on the heat. Do you know what the end of summer means? It means that the time for robots and monsters is coming to an end (until the studios leave them for dead in the January Dumping Ground). Autumn and early winter prestige pics are just around the corner. Let’s watch the trailers for some likely awards-season hits (and one probable miss) after the jump! Continue reading
Pacific Rim is the Citizen Kane of robot monster movies. I’m referring, naturally, to the original cut of Citizen Kane, not the butchered, robot-free studio cut that most of us saw in film class. Making Rosebud a sled instead of a robot companion deprives Kane of both pathos and narrative coherence. Anyway. This film is, of course, a remake of the 1965 Orson Welles Japanese production, The Pacific Rim. The 2013 version of Pacific Rim is perhaps the deepest and most ambitious robot monster movie since Woody Allen’s 1982 Robots of Manhattan, and perhaps the most innovative cinematic take on robots and monsters since Francois Truffaut’s ground-breaking masterpiece, Les Robots Dangereux. Continue reading
I love movies. More importantly, I love seeing movies before almost everyone else. Certain movies will get me to the theater at midnight, so I figured I’d see them first and write a review the next day so you can get a real review from someone that isn’t a Hollywood hack.
In this installment… Pacific Rim. Continue reading
Are you getting Pacific Rimmed this weekend, hunty? Maybe Conjuring up a few haunted house cliches next week? You gotta do you, but let’s also see what flickering dreams the cinegoogolplex will be selling you in the months to come. Porn stars and westerns and remakes, oh my! Hit the jump to view some trailers that have recently hit the web. Continue reading
Sure, you’re content with your Lone Star Ranger Monsters Man of Iron Steel Trek into Darkness University for now, but what cinematic goodies lie ahead? Meet me after the jump to watch three trailers/teasers that recently hit the web. Continue reading
Movie making is sort of a crap shoot. The movie we see on the screen is the result of a series of choices and random happenstances. Oh, crazy 70s Dune movie that never was, how I wish I had your sweet Pink Floyd sound track. Oh well. Let’s look at some of these random happenings, and shriek with delight and/or dismay at what might have been. Continue reading
There are two times a year where Hollywood really rolls out their Big Tentpole Franchise Movies: summer and the holidays. This summer, we’ve already seen Iron Man 3, The Great Gatsby, Star Trek Into Darkness, The Hangover Part III, Fast and Furious 6, and Man of Steel. We still have World War Z, The Lone Ranger, and The Wolverine.
For those of you keeping score at home, that’s comic-book movie sequel, book adaptation, sequel to a reboot of a 60s TV show, REALLY unnecessary sequel, another sequel, comic-book movie reboot, another book adaptation, another TV adaptation, and another comic-book movie sequel. Continue reading
There few movies that have been as anticipated as Warner Brothers’ reboot of the Superman movie franchise. A lot is riding on “Man of Steel,” especially after the somewhat disappointing 2006 “Superman Returns,” including the future of a “Justice League” movie that could rival Marvel’s “The Avengers.” In short, “Man of Steel” is an exciting, yet thoughtful movie that succeeds both as a summer popcorn movie and a treatment of one of the most venerable figures in American popular culture.
Warning: Some spoilers follow after the jump. Continue reading