300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE Gets A First Preposterous Trailer
Yesterday we had our first glimpse at 300: Rise of an Empire, the prequel-parallel-squeakquel to Zack Snyder's epic graphic novel adaptation 300, with Sullivan Stapleton brooding on a poster, contemplating whether to catch that wave.Now comes the first trailer, which... More »
  

Jason Gorber's Cineruminations: On Shyamalan, SHE'S ALL THAT and a Preponderance for Pigeonholing
Part of the (heated) discussion about my take on After Earth surrounded the dicey proposition, popularized by the "Cahiers du Cinema" crowd in the 50s, that a director's work is to be considered part of a continuous process of development,... More »
  

Michael Mann's Untitled Cyber-Crime Flick Has Started Filming
After Luck killed one too many horses on HBO and Public Enemies fizzed both narratively, visually and fiscally on the big screen, it looks like Michael Mann is getting back to a big old genre flick, presumably. Tentatively titled Cyber via the ever... More »
  

Naomi Watts Smiles And Nods In First Teaser for DIANA
People of the world, loyal subjects, take your first look at Naomi Watts playing Diana, Princess of Wales; the People's Princess; Princess of Hearts; the Candle in the Wind. There's no dialogue, just plenty of shots to sell Watts as... More »
  

Destroy All Monsters: HBO's GAME OF THRONES Is Better Than The Books
[Now that the third season of Game of Thrones is over, I'm going to look at the series in comparison to its source novels. I will not reveal any book plot information that has not already been revealed by the... More »
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Sullivan Stapleton Broods On First Poster For 300 Sequel RISE OF AN EMPIRE
Life's been good to Sullivan Stapleton. A few years ago he was taking odd jobs crewing on films and TV to pay the bills, now he probably has some kind of venerable butler who pays his bills for him. His... More »
  

7 Fantastic Computer Enabled Movie Battles

Occasionally I play video games like Medieval II: Total War or Supreme Commander, and whenever I see large scale battles being fought in real-time on my modest personal computer, I am reminded of the epic movies of the fifties and... More »
By Ard Vijn   
  

Review: MAN OF STEEL, A Hero Flies With Brute Force
You will believe a blockbuster can fly. Man of Steel is a movie that earns its title the old-fashioned way -- by the brute force of its titular character, an alien whose physical strength is matched by his spiritual mettle... More »
  

70s Rewind: SUPERMAN Made Me Believe
"You'll believe a man can fly." Belief was a big deal for movies and me in late 1977. Sure, Star Wars rebooted space opera, but that was a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Close Encounters of... More »
  

Twitchvision: Talking THE PURGE, THE EAST and BEFORE MIDNIGHT
Another not so great week for mainstream releases, with The Purge and The East proving to be little more than misguided high-concept failures. With Linklater's Before Midnight opening wider, and linking to Ethan Hawke's other release, I felt it deserved... More »
  

Review: GAME OF THRONES S3E10, MHYSA (Or, You Took An Extra Ten Minutes And This Was The Best You Could Do?)
Another season of George RR Martin's epic Game Of Thrones has come to an end and in this season's anticipation inducing, nail chewing, big shock cliffhanger ending ... nothing at all happens. Nothing. At. All. With the arguable exception of... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

The Epic Adventure Continues With The First Poster For THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG
This breathtaking poster surely comes as a real treat for all the die-hard The Hobbit fans who are anxiously waiting for the arrival of the first trailer for Peter Jackson's The Desolation of Smaug - set to hit the web on Tuesday,... More »
  

9 New Posters As SNOWPIERCER Approaches! Full Trailer Next?
Bong Joon-ho's highly anticipated sci-fi Snowpiercer is just around the corner, as it is slated to open worldwide in August, though no firm date has been set. Every new glimpse of the film has been tantalizing and here are nine... More »
  

Review: THIS IS THE END, Celebrity Friends Laughing At Themselves And The Apocalypse
If you can't trust your best friend(s) when the world ends, who can you trust? Making their directorial debut, Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen have built a vehicle that is customized to fit the talents of their friends. Loosely constructed,... More »
  

New MAN OF STEEL Trailer Wants To Show You Its CG Muscles
What's better than real muscles? CG muscles! This is the message that comes across loud and clear in the new trailer for Man of Steel, released as a tie-in with a mobile phone company. Of course I'm not literally talking... More »
  

Dreamworks To Make Australian Animated Musical With Tim Minchin
In a move as bizarre and unexpected Michel Gondry directing The Green Hornet, Dreamworks Animation has hired quirky Australian indie performer Tim Minchin to write and compose it's first animated musical. And to top it off, they're setting it in... More »
  

Review: THE PURGE Satisfies Some Urges, But Not All
Some movies have good premises that get squandered in the execution, but The Purge is the other way around. It takes a bad premise and makes it work, more or less. You won't believe that any part of it is... More »
  

Review: THE INTERNSHIP Doesn't Make You Search For Product Placement

Finally! The movie that marketers have been waiting for has arrived: The Internship is an affable comedy that wears its product placement proudly on its sleeve. Vince Vaughn, the son of a salesman, is credited with the story and shares... More »
  

Dare To Watch The Trailer For INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2
Aww, I wanted to use the roman numeral "II" but that made it look like we were talking about Insidious going Chapter Eleven. Anyway, a sequel to James Wan's Insidious is indeed in the making and here is a trailer... More »
By Ard Vijn   
  

Paul Schrader Joins The Venice Film Festival
American auteur Paul Schrader will be back at the Venice Film Festival (28 August - September 7) as Head of Jury of the sidebar section Orizzonti. The movie brat guru, director of critical hits such as American Gigolo and loyal... More »
  
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