I think it’s fair to say that Ishtar is a film with a bit of a reputation. One need look no further than the scathing reviews it’s received over the years to see that. A quick sampling from Rotten Tomatoes tells us that it’s “the model of awful comedies” and that it “live[s] up to the hype of its badness.” Even Roger Ebert himself gave it half a star. So it was with a great amount of trepidation that I approached what many have made out to be one of the worst films of all time, but does it really deserve all the hate it’s been getting since its release? One thing’s for sure, it doesn’t take that many minutes for you to reach that point of decision.
While we anxiously await the release of Lee Daniels' The Butler (yes, we actually have to call it that now), The Weinstein Company has graciously released five new clips from the film that give us a good idea what to expect when the film hits theaters in a couple of weeks.
For anyone that's been a fan of the classic Child's Play series, such as myself, we've been waiting anxiously for the new installment, Curse of Chucky, to arrive on Blu-ray and DVD this fall. To pass the time, a new red-band trailer for the film had dropped that amps up the terror in a delightful fashion. It may only be a little over a minute, but it's enough time for us to see the return of the Chucky we know and love.
While season four of the hit HBO show Game of Thrones continues on with production of season four, we keep receiving little updates as to who's filling in the remaining important roles for this part of the story. We've already heard that Pablo Pascal will be playing Prince Oberyn Martell (The Red Viper), while Indira Varma has been brought on to play his lover Ellaria Sand. We've even been told that Mark Gatiss has been cast in a still-secret role.
It's the announcement we've all been waiting for. We've known for some time that Peter Jackson and his crew were planning to release an extended edition of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, something they're planning to do with all three films in the trilogy, but now we finally have a little more detail as to what to expect when the Blu-ray hits shelves later this year.
Ben Stiller in a still from The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Over the weekend, those checking out The Wolverine had the opportunity to see the following gorgeous trailer for Ben Stiller's upcoming film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, but now it has been made available online so that everyone might have a peek.
Is there anything worse than a thriller that doesn’t thrill? Well, I’m pretty sure you can think of things comparable and worse, but it still ranks pretty low. Katie Aselton’s Black Rock is such a film. It wants to get your blood pumping, it wants to have you caught up in the narrative, but these things it cannot do because it’s what is known as a “by the numbers” film where the audience is always two steps ahead of the characters. You know what they’re going to do before they do it, even if it’s a really bad decision. As you can imagine, this doesn’t exactly make for a particularly engrossing experience.
It's rather ironic that we would be faced with a new trailer for the thriller Cheap Thrills today as I recently had the opportunity to screen it just a few days ago. Having premiered at SXSW earlier this year, it garnered some decent reviews, but after finally seeing it, I couldn't begin to tell you why.
A couple of weeks ago, we brought you the news that Martin Freeman had wrapped up his final scene in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy, but now we have the even bigger news that the final day of filming has finished. To commemorate the historic event, Jackson decided to do something a little unusual for such a busy man and live blog the events of the final day, starting from getting up in the morning to his triumphant return home to his cat.
It seems like it's been quite a long while since we've seen a new version of the Bard's classic Romeo & Juliet pop up. Perhaps Shakespeare's most famous play, the last adaptation I can recall was Baz Luhrmann's outstanding 1996 version with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes as the star-crossed lovers. However, you may recall that it was set in contemporary times, making 1968 the last time we saw a classically-set, big screen adaptation of the play, with Franco Zeffirelli's Oscar-winning film.
