Rob Zombie dives back into the grizzly world of live-action feature
films, following his two-run reboot stand of the Halloween franchise,
with this tale about a radio DJ (Sheri Moon Zombie) who re
What happens if you let Joseph Kosinski (Tron: Legacy) mix and match elements of I Am Legend and Wall-E with The Matrix
with Tom Cruise as the last man left to clean up the mess on Earth
after an
High-end art auctioneer Simon (James
McAvoy) cues us in to the ins and outs of the security necessary to
protect near-priceless works of art from the would-be thugs out there
with enough “muscle and nerve” to dare to burst into an auction house
and steal a painting.
Did you think awards season was over? If you like your awards shows with little more camp, tune in to the over-the-top tribute to the year in pop culture, the NewNowNext Awards (10 p.m. Monday, Logo).
Historic sports-based biopics always run the risk of sentimentality,
especially with a figure like Jackie Robinson. Too often the desire is
to show the courage of the subject in the face of hatred
Japanese animator Goro Miyazaki (Tales from Earthsea), likely unknown to audiences here in the States, gets a push for From Up On Poppy Hill
(thanks to executive producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank
So often, documentaries about people and communities that live outside
the modern social framework present these factions as curiosities,
maintaining a knowing distance tinged with judgment. With
Critical analysis involves cutting through the clutter and noise, which can sometimes be quite difficult. For example, I caught The Place Beyond the Pines
at the Toronto International Film Festival
The premise of Australian director Wayne Blair’s period musical drama, The Sapphires, reads like a Down Under version of Dreamgirls
but with a healthy dose of humor to appease the mainstreamers ou
Once again, audiences find themselves face-to-face with
the banality of modern parody, in the form of yet another take on
paranormal evil. The Scary Movie franchise, based initially on characters
The fanatic cult of Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell devotees
are eager to strap themselves in for this Raimi-endorsed reboot of his
classic series. Having handpicked Uruguayan Fede Alvarez to shepher
In much the same way that Bully sparked outrage over the
challenging conditions this generation of children face against one
another and school administrators who shirk their duties to promote and
How timely to watch a film about an advertising executive (Gael García
Bernal) who develops a campaign to defeat a referendum proposed by
Chilean leader Augusto Pinochet in 1988. Director Pablo L
Film history, like art history, has
tended to be fairly academic — you take a class, which uses textbooks
and screens key movies in full, and dryly study the high points of
cinema, from the silent era to the arrival of digital effects.
With this sixth and
penultimate season of Mad Men comes a new work space, an updated group
of partners and a fresh start for SCDP, the people who work there, and,
likely, the other “mad” characters that make this show so captivating.