Author: Solani Verma

Dredd screened for fanboys down at the San Diego Comic Con recently and they all responded with glowing reviews, and now a red band clip from the film has arrived online featuring plenty of blood, bullets and belly fat. Skimming through the clip the one thing I will give it credit for is its use of…

As blood dripped down Ryan Gosling’s face in director Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive the Cannes audience couldn’t help but laugh. It wasn’t a laugh as a result of something funny, it was a laugh of relief as this year’s Cannes Film Festival has offered an abundance of diversity and Drive appears to be the aggressive, head-stomping capstone. But as…

Aside from special effects, blood, raging rhinos and an elaborate imagination one thing necessary to bring the film adaptation 300 to life was an actor that could take the lead role of King Leonidas and own it. Director Zack Snyder found his man in Gerard Butler and by the time the film is over you too will believe in…

It’s almost exhausting just to think about it, but Peter Jackson‘s bloated telling of J.R.R. Tolkien‘s “The Hobbit” will finally come to an end on December 17 when The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies hits theaters and if the newly released synopsis for the film is to be believed it means it will include more than just walking… The…

Best Motion Picture (Drama) On the Waterfront Columbia Pictures Directed by Elia Kazan Starring Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Eva Marie Saint, Don Blackman & Leif Erickson Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy) Carmen Jones 20th Century Fox Directed by Otto Preminger Starring Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, Olga James, Pearl Bailey & Joe Adams BEST DIRECTOR BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE (DRAMA) BEST PERFORMANCE…

Many pictures from Star Trek Into Darkness have been finding their way online over the course of Paramount’s marketing plan, but many of them either come in the form of magazine scans or low-res versions so I have held off on most of them. However, today several hi-res versions have come available and while none of them…

NOTE: This review/recap contains spoilers for “Game of Thrones” Season Two, Episode Four. I have also added a batch of seven images from this episode at the bottom of this post. If Episode Two was all about the sweet lovin’ then Episode Four was entirely about the pain. The pain? Yes, the pain, that sensation “Game of Thrones” gives…

I have just added the trailer for Paper Man an upcoming dramedy starring Jeff Daniels, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds, Lisa Kudrow and Kieran Culkin in which Daniels plays Richard, a failed middle-aged novelist, and Stone plays Abby, a 17-year-old girl whose role in a family tragedy years earlier has stolen away her youth. The two of them…

I apologize for the headline if you are a RopeofSilicon reader and you actually paid money to go see Meet the Spartans because I cannot for the life of me comprehend why anyone in their right mind would pay hard earned money to see a movie featuring images such as the one above. Somehow, some way, that…