Author: Solani Verma

With George Clooney‘s The Monuments Men dropping out of the 2014 Oscar race it became necessary that this morning was spent updating my 2014 Oscar prediction charts and it was no small task as I updated seven categories including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress. In addition to the loss of Monuments Men, it was also confirmed Martin Scorsese‘s The Wolf of Wall Street will…

I was curious after watching the trailer for Watchmen close to one gazillion times just how it all matched up to the Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons graphic novel and with ten examples I think you will get a pretty good idea of what Zach Snyder is going for and judge for yourself if he is on the right…

WITH THE ANNOUNCEMENT of the 2013 Toronto Film Festival lineup and the recent trailers for American Hustle and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty it’s time to do a little rearranging of my Oscar predictions as I have touched up all of the top categories including Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor and Actress and Adapted and Original Screenplay. Yes, there…

Persona (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray/DVD) I have watched all of Criterion’s new Blu-ray for Ingmar Bergman‘s absolute classic, Persona, and will have a more in-depth look at the film tomorrow, but for now let me just say I consider this an essential title for film fans interested in collecting the best cinema has had to offer over the…

Depending on how closely you follow DVD and Blu-ray releases you may or may not know all of the terminology, but if you haven’t heard of digital noise reduction (DNR) you are about to get your lesson, as if you hadn’t already learned by mousing over the image comparing the original Blu-ray release of Predator and the…

It was known Andy Serkis would be playing a character in J.J. Abrams‘ Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens, but which character wasn’t entirely clear, but today we get a glimpse at said character in a new picture as well as a name. Serkis will be playing Supreme Leader Snoke and clearly based on the image it will be…

It’s been four years since our last James Bond adventure and now he is back and Daniel Craig is a whole new Bond. Based on the first Bond book written by Ian Fleming, the story, which has never been told on film until now, recounts the making of the world’s greatest secret agent as he…

It’s always interesting when an MPAA bulletin includes a re-rate, but most specifically when a film gets a new rating, a new rating reason, but the filmmakers didn’t have to edit the film one bit. In today’s bulletin that film is David Gordon Green‘s Manglehorn starring Al Pacino which was previously rated R for “some sexual material”, but has now…

From Vienna in Before Sunrise to Paris in Before Sunset, the story of Celine and Jesse is obviously the heart of why we love these films so much, but the locations speak to that sense of romance in us all. Meeting someone in a foreign country and enjoying a passionate, one night affair, believing you can’t exist without…

I was not a huge fan of TRON: Legacy, but one thing I will say for it is I really enjoyed where it ended. In fact, as much as I thought the film itself was a bit of a dud, had it continued on for another two hours I think they might have had one hell…