Category: Movies

SYNOPSIS: Based on Cormac McCarthy’s beloved, best-selling and Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Academy Award nominee Viggo Mortensen leads an all-star cast in the big screen adaptation of The Road, the epic post-apocalyptic tale of a journey taken by a father (Viggo Mortensen) and his young son (newcomer Kodi Smit-McPhee) across a barren landscape that was…

SYNOPSIS: “Shooter” is an action-packed thriller starring Mark Wahlberg as Bob Lee Swagger, a former Army sniper who leaves the military after a mission goes bad. After he is reluctantly pressed back into service, Swagger is double-crossed again. With two bullets in him and the subject of a nationwide manhunt, Swagger begins his revenge, which…

The majority of the story in Kung Fu Panda 2 is told in the short sequence before the titles in which it’s revealed the dastardly peacock Lord Shen (voiced by Gary Oldman) plans to takeover China and destroy kung fu. Cue Po (voiced by Jack Black), the titular Kung Fu Panda, and it isn’t long before he…

SYNOPSIS: Based on the true story of two homicide detectives who captured and convicted Martha Beck and Raymond Martinez Fernandez, the “Lonely Hearts Killers” of the 1940s who found their victims through the personals.

Continuing on with our Kerry Conran conversation Kerry gives us a little insight as to some of the little oddities that can be found in the Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow if you keep your eyes open as well as what was cut and ultimately left out of the movie altogether that you may just…

With an opening sequence that closely mirrors the opening moments of The Kingdom, Battle in Seattle hardly ever lets up and packs quite a powerful punch. How this film managed to slip through the cracks only to ultimately end up in the hands of Redwood Palm Pictures is beyond me, but they have a quality picture in their…

Starring: Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach, Wayne Knight Director: Emile Ardolino Studio: Vestron Pictures Rating: PG-13 Genre: Drama Release Date: August 25, 1987Oscar Winner:Won 1 Oscar in 1988 SYNOPSIS: Amazon.comAs with Grease (1978) and Footloose (1984) before it, Dirty Dancing was a cultural phenomenon that now plays more like camp. That very campiness, though, is part of its biggest charm. And if the dancing in the movie doesn’t seem…

One day after the Weinstein Co. acquired North American distribution and remake rights to Peter Ho-sun Chan’s Wu Xia (Dragon), the Out of Competition title screened at the 64th Cannes Film Festival. Playing as a 1917-set, martial arts version of David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence, Wu Xia boasts a fascinating story and some excellent action scenes, choreographed and featuring…

My cinematic introduction to writer/director Xavier Dolan was one I couldn’t have expected. I’d heard plenty about I Killed My Mother and Heartbeats and, after seeing Laurence Anyways, I regret not having seen either. I was floored by Dolan’s cinematic control; the power displayed in his musical choices, the imagery, his use of color, his instincts as to when to…

STARRING: Peter O’Toole, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Griffiths, Leslie Phillips, Jodie Whittaker DIRECTOR: Roger Michell STUDIO: Miramax Films RATING: R (For language, some sexual content and brief nudity.) GENRE: Drama RELEASE DATE: December 21, 2006 (NY/LA) WEBSITE: http://www.venus-themovie.com/ BOX-OFFICE:$1,837,193 (US total) SYNOPSIS: Tells the story of Maurice and Ian, a pair of veteran actors, whose comfortable daily routine is disrupted by the arrival of Ian’s grand-niece, Jessie. Maurice takes the teenager…