Author: Solani Verma

I am not sure if I wanted to have Will Smith seen as a bum all throughout Hancock or if I wanted to actually see him in some king of superhero outfit. I guess it doesn’t matter now as Cine21 brings us our first look at Smith in a superhero uniform from the film. I know there are a…

I know, this is the Internet and the immediate reaction to such a question as I pose in the headline is, “Hell no! Censorship sucks! Down with the man!” But this isn’t that kind of a conversation. I’m with you 100%. I hate censorship, but there is something to be said for the creativity censorship…

Barry Levinson is back at Toronto after delivering the dull eco-horror-thriller The Bay back in 2012 (my review here), this time with Al Pacino in The Humbling based on Philip Roth‘s final novel. Today, after the film has already premiered at the Venice Film Festival, the first trailer has arrived ahead of its North American premiere here in Toronto. The film tells the story of a…

It was long speculated and recently confirmed that enough titles would be submitted for consideration in the Best Animated Feature Film category for there to be five nominees this year. This is something that hasn’t happened since 2003 when Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away took home the award and not only are there 16 contenders, which is the magic number…

12 Years a Slave Fox Searchlight Pictures Directed by Steve McQueen Starring Michael Fassbender, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Brad Pitt, Adepero Oduye, Paul Dano, Taran Killam, Benedict Cumberbatch, Garret Dillahunt, Paul Giamatti, Sarah Paulson, Alfre Woodard, Michael Kenneth Williams, Quvenzhané Wallis, Lupita Nyong’o & Ruth Negga NOMINEES Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy) American Hustle Columbia Pictures Directed by David O. Russell Starring Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Jeremy Renner, Amy Adams, Louis C.K., Alessandro Nivola, Elisabeth Röhm, Michael Peña, Jack Huston & Robert De Niro…

The Weinstein Co. has released three new pictures from Philip Noyce‘s The Giver, offering a look at the characters played by Jeff Bridges, Taylor Swift, Brenton Thwaites, Odeya Rush, Katie Holmes, and Alexander Skarsgard. Set for release on August 15, The Giver, based on the young adult novel by Lois Lowry, is described as a haunting story centered on Jonas (Thwaites), a young boy from…

Last month Paramount released several character posters for Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation in preparation for the film’s nationwide release tomorrow, and it seems one of the film’s stars has a bit of a bone to pick with how the studio’s marketing department chose to portray the film’s female lead in her poster. “When the posters came out, it was me…

Clearly there’s only one game in town this weekend, and that game is The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. I’ve thrown out a number at $176.3 million, and keep in mind the first version came in at $152.5 million for its opening weekend. My bump is predicated on this one being better (11 percentage points higher on RottenTomatoes as of…

There has been plenty of Internet chatter surrounding the possibility of an X-Files 2 for Mulder and Scully, and in a recent visit to Seattle to do publicity for his new film House of D, I had the chance to ask David Duchovny about the possibility of a second X-Files film, and if they were all going to get back together for…