Category: Movies

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

    SYNOPSIS: Oscar Wilde’s most debated work about a man who stays eternally young while his famous portrait ages through the years, until the gripping and eerie climax. PHOTOS: THERE ARE NO PICTURES AVAILABLE FOR THIS TITLE TRAILERS & CLIPS: THERE ARE NO VIDEOS AVAILABLE FOR THIS TITLE

  • Somewhere

    From Academy Award-winning writer/director Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation, The Virgin Suicides, Marie Antoinette), Somewhere is a witty, moving, and empathetic look into the orbit of actor Johnny Marco (played by Stephen Dorff). You have probably seen him in the tabloids; .Johnny is living at the legendary Chateau Marmont hotel in Hollywood. He has a Ferrari to drive around…

  • Two Clips from Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’ Starring Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston

    If you took a moment to look at my tentative screening schedule for the 2013 Cannes Film Festival then you noticed I’ll be seeing Jim Jarmusch‘s Only Lovers Left Alive in the afternoon on Friday, May 24. The film was a late addition to the schedule, but one many are looking forward to, myself included, as it centers on two vampires (Tilda…

  • The Whistleblower

    Inspired by actual events, Kathy (Academy Award(R) winner Rachel Weisz) is an American police officer who takes a job working as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. Her expectations of helping to rebuild a devastated country are dashed when she uncovers a dangerous reality of corruption, cover-up and intrigue amid a world of private contractors and…

  • DOA: DEAD OR ALIVE (2007)

    STARRING: Natassia Malthe, Devon Aoki, Matthew Marsden, Kevin Nash, Jaime Pressly, Silvio Simac, Sarah Carter, Steve Howey, Holly Valance, Eric Roberts DIRECTOR: Corey Yuen STUDIO: Dimension Films RATING: PG-13 (For pervasive martial arts and action violence, some sexuality and nudity.) GENRE: Action RELEASE DATE: June 15, 2007 (Limited) WEBSITE: http://deadoralive-movie.com/  BOX-OFFICE:$480,813 (US total) In DOA: Dead or Alive four beautiful women begin as rivals in a secret invitational-only martial arts contest, but find themselves teaming up…

  • Dueling Bowe Bergdahl Movies in the Works

    Deadline reports there are a pair of films in development centering on recently released Taliban POW Bowe Bergdahl, one with The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty duo Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal and another from Todd Field (Little Children) directing based on the “Rolling Stone” article “America’s Last Prisoner of War” written by the late Michael Hastings. The film with Field attached is set up at Fox…

  • Godzilla

    An epic rebirth to Toho’s iconic Godzilla, this spectacular adventure pits the world’s most famous monster against malevolent creatures who, bolstered by humanity’s scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence. Gareth Edwards directs Godzilla, which stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen and Juliette Binoche, with David Strathairn and Bryan Cranston. The screenplay is by Max Borenstein, Frank…

  • TIFF Movie Review: The Oranges (2011)

    The Oranges is a film that’s been on my radar for some time. In 2008 Jay Reiss and Ian Helfer’s script sat just behind The Beaver, in second place on the ever-popular Black List, a list of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood. The script even got a mention before the film rolled at its world premiere at…

  • Movie Review: The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

    I don’t remember ever seeing a movie driven by so much cause and effect as The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. This film is inspired by the idea that a group of people should get in trouble over and over again and the only goal of the project is to get them out of said…

  • The Dark Knight (2008)

    What can I say? There are moments in film history when everything is pushed aside and performance exceeds genre. Batman Begins told audiences and film critics it was possible to root a comic book generated superhero in reality. Earlier this year Iron Man set out to do the same but lost its balance in the final act. The Dark…