The Muppets keeps it old-school, offering proof that the muppets are still relevant in today’s modern world, and old fashioned laughs never go out of style.
For all the twi-hards out there, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 will be the culmination of all their hopes and dreams. For those still in possession of their wits, this film is not only the worst of the Twilight flicks so far, but just about the most melodramatic and insipid movie I‘ve ever watched.
We have an Anchor Bay "crime thriller" prize pack to offer this week, which includes both the Stephen Dorff-starring Carjacked and The Entitled. The contest is for one copy of each title on DVD, and one copy of each title on Blu-Ray. It's easy to enter, and you don't want to miss the opportunity to check out these crime thrillers that co-star the likes of Ray Liotta, Maria Bello and Kevin Zegers.
Like Crazy manages to capture the elusive whimsy of first love, only to beat it to death with a tedious on again/off again love story and two main characters obstinately selfish and mundane. Indie romance certainly doesn’t need another self-indulgent film full of long scenes of meaningless dialogue and “artsy” photographic interludes, but that’s just what writer/director Drake Doremus offers up in his new film about lost love and growing up.
The film feels like the filmmakers were trying so hard to make Hoover’s life into a melodrama about repressed homosexuality and mother issues, that they lost the incredible historical backdrop and some of the events that could have made the story come to life.
Ralph Fiennes did what few have been able to do in the past; he made Shakespeare’s Coriolanus interesting. Fiennes gave this lesser known and somewhat dry play about ancient Roman warfare and fatal hubris a stylized treatment against a modern-times backdrop. The result is a gritty, violently charismatic pic that proves Fiennes has skills both in front of and behind the camera.
Roland Emmerich, perhaps better known for his blockbuster action movies like Independence Day and 2012, changes pace with his upcoming period drama Anonymous. Emmerich takes the controversial Shakespearean authorship controversy and shapes it into an effective political thriller set in Elizabethan England.
Roland Emmerich takes a questionable literary controversy and deftly forms it into a compelling Elizabethan political drama in the Shakespeare-themed Anonymous. From Shakespeare’s real identity, to the question of royal ascension, Anonymous weaves an intriguing tale that the Bard himself might be proud of.
According to David Fincher, the director of upcoming edgy mystery/thriller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Scarlett Johansson was simply too sexy for the part of edgy techno-goth heroine Lisbeth Salander. THR is reporting that Fincher said that Johansson was great when she tried out for the part, but it went to Rooney Mara because "she's a great weirdo".
