Author: Solani Verma

Vimeo user Nelson Carvajal created the following 4:09 minute video, which features a brief snippet from every single Best Picture Oscar winner from Wings to The Artists and everything in-between. He even added clips from this year’s nominees — Argo, Silver Linings Playbook, Lincoln, Les Miserables, Life of Pi, Zero Dark Thirty, Amour, Django Unchained and Beasts of the Southern Wild — at the end in prep for this Sunday’s, 2013 Oscar…

The supporting categories at the Oscars are always a nightmare. The field is so much larger and even genre films stand a larger chance at not only a nom, but a win as Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) and Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight) have proven in recent years. This year, Waltz is back with Tarantino and possibility once again…

FilmDistrict has brought online the official red band teaser trailer for the upcoming remake of Evil Dead and just looking for a screen capture for this article revealed a tongue-splitting surprise. Directed and co-written by Fede Alvarez, Evil Dead retells the story of five friends holed up at a remote cabin where they discover a Book of the Dead, which releases a…

I have seen a lot of interesting stuff surrounding Bill Maher’s upcoming documentary Religulous, which takes a look at the role religion plays around the world in a satirical way. A lot of what I have seen looks pretty good, a little tongue in cheek, and quite interesting. However, this new clip makes me wonder why…

The site is redesigned and the Cinematic Revival is back. For those of you that have been reading the first seven issues of the Cinematic Revival and were looking forward to my comments on Almost Famous and The Wolf Man I still have my notes on both of them, but they aren’t exactly fresh in my mind any longer…

In an article over at Cinema Blend, Gabe Toro makes a case for abolishing the PG-13 rating on the back of the PG-13 recently handed out to Sylvester Stallone‘s The Expendables 3, the first installment in the franchise not to receive an R-rating. The reason given by the MPAA for the rating was due to “violence including intense sustained gun battles and…

Now this is a curious combination as THR reports Baz Luhrmann of all people is in talks to direct Kung Fu for Legendary Pictures. The project is a big-screen adaptation of the 1970s martial arts Western television show that starred David Carradine as Kwai Chang Caine, a Shaolin monk who came to the American West in search of his half brother. The show…

We already knew this was coming, but now 20th Century Fox has announced a date and August 27 will mark the return of James Cameron’s Avatar to Digital 3D and IMAX 3D theaters and it comes with more than eight minutes of new footage included. The return has been dubbed Avatar: Special Edition, which is basically to say this is…

On Monday it was announced Sony would release The Amazing Spider-Man 3 on June 10, 2016 and The Amazing Spider-Man 4 on May 4, 2018. Yes, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is still filming and won’t be in theaters until May 2, 2014, which gives us three sequels over the next five years to a lackluster reboot that began with a villain hellbent on turning everyone…