Sin City: A Dame to Kill For has performed disastrously at the box-office this weekend. So we will call this an early Blu-Ray/DVD review. Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez return to the film world that they created based on Miller’s graphic novels, Sin City. When the first film was released in 2005, the visual effects […]
Actor Jessie Eisenberg has made the most of his career. Once thought to be a stand-in or replacement in case Michael Cera wasn’t available, Eisenberg has made a name for himself as a respectable actor. After doing a lot of his early work in the comedy realm in films such as Adventureland and Zombieland, he […]
Many have wondered where Jon Stewart has been over the course of the past year or so. For much of the last year his seat on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show has been filled with substitutes. What has he been doing and where has he been? He was busy making his directorial debut on a […]
Warner Bros’ staple of DC Comics characters has gone largely underused until recent times. Another property that WB owns that hasn’t been properly revamped for modern times are the Looney Tunes. They haven’t had a bonafide Looney Tunes hit since 1996’s Space Jam starring Michael Jordan. The last release Looney Tunes: Back in Action failed […]
The undoubted star of Marvel Studios and the Marvel cinematic universe is Iron Man’s Robert Downey Jr. Marvel’s first film Iron Man, could have gone in a much different direction and the course of movies would be in another place right now. By all accounts, the script was incomplete during shooting, leaving much of the […]
Anthony and Joe Russo (Community) were largely unknown at this time last year. While people may still not recognize their faces or names today, most people will respect their work. They were the co-directors of Captain America: The Winter Solider, one of the biggest financial and critical superhero hits of the year. They are coming […]
When The Blair Witch Project hit theaters fifteen years ago it was a sensational success. Young co-director Eduardo Sanchez tapped into a new area of the horror movie, the found-footage movie. What made millions flock to theaters was an uncertainty, at the time, whether or not what audiences were seeing was actually real. For others […]
Academy Award nominated director Lee Daniels (The Butler, Precious) next project is a bio-pic on who is considered to be the godfather of modern comedy, Richard Pryor. The search for the ideal actor to embody Pryor’s unique cadence, irrationality and spirit, had to have been an enormous challenge. There were numerous rumors of front runners […]
Sometimes dreams come true…kind of. Donald Glover (Community), the actor and mega-star hip-hop artist, who happens to be a life-long comicbook fan, began petitioning (literally) for the part of Peter Parker during preproduction for The Amazing Spider-man. It became an internet sensation on social media and incited a lot of dialogue about who Spider-Man truly […]
It is a long road to Warner Bros’ Justice League movie. While there has not been an official release date announced for the most epic superhero team-up this side of The Avengers, it is widely assumed that we will be watching it in 2017. One thing Warner Bros. has been doing is leaving breadcrumbs and […]
Sometimes things do not go according to plans at the box office. This past weekend the unexpected happened for Dimension Films’ Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. The sequel to the revolutionary 2005 film turned out to be one of the biggest flops of the year. The fim noir co-directed by Robert Rodriguez and […]
The world of Batman is coming to television in a little less than a month’s time. The new Fox crime procedural, Gotham, will explore the assorted criminals and organized corruption that made the fictional city infamous. The show begins with the crime that shaped young Bruce Wayne’s entire life, the murder of his wealthy and […]
