If you were worried that Andy Samberg is on his way to being the next Adam Sandler, have no fear! He's also taking a shot at being the next Will Ferrell. At least, that's what it sounds like he's going for in HBO's 7 Days In Hell, which will feature Samberg as a "bad boy" tennis player embroiled in a seven-day long tennis match at Wimbledon.
Back before Mel Gibson went crazy, he was already a little mad as a certain titular gentleman named Max. Will the same fate befall Tom Hardy, who steps into Gibson's motorcycle boots for the sequel/reboot (which is it?) of Gibson's Mad Max franchise? While we certainly don't hope that Hardy's personal life goes the same way, I think we can cross our fingers that he'll bring the same wild-eyed anger to the upcoming Mad Max: Fury Road.
I consider myself to be a somewhat jaded, overly cynical filmgoer. That does not mean that I'm not always on the lookout for a film that might not be "great" in the grandest sense of the world, but might come close to expressing the ebullience and joy of life. While I've yet to see the film - and will have to wait a little longer for that - I have to say that watching the latest preview for Hector and the Search for Happiness marked the first time I've actually laughed at a trailer in awhile.
Vin Diesel might not always make the best movies in the world, but he's always very passionate and excited about the movies he does make. He managed to get Riddick made, of course, and he's been teasing projects one after the other for quite some time. Now, he's got a series of movies lined up, the first of which has just added none other than Michael Caine to the cast.
Every few years we get a time travel movie. The last one of any note (that I can remember, at least) was Looper, which starred Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a man who ends up having to assassinate himself in the future. Now Ethan Hawke is taking a swing at the same subgenre with his role in Predestination.
Graphic novelist and professional grump Alan Moore does not like most things, up to and including film adaptations of his or anyone else's work. So when he called for a boycott of the upcoming Hercules, starring Dwayne Johnson as the titular hero, I was perfectly prepared to pass the item by without giving it much attention. However, Moore's reasons for the boycott are not in the grumpy and paranoid realm, for once. He's doing it for his now-deceased friend Steve Moore (no relation), the man who wrote the original comic books on which the film is based.
One of the great problems facing modern moviegoers is the tendency of studios to give away the entire plot a film via the trailers. It is refreshing, therefore, to come across a trailer like the latest for The One I Love, which gives so little away that you actually are left wondering just what the movie is about.
While the media world explodes with speculation, excitement and, yes, a bit of trepidation for Avengers: Age of Ultron, we must keep the important things in perspective. Woody Allen's Magic in the Moonlight is coming out next Friday, the latest in a long line of Allen films that stretch back six decades. But while you might know Mr. Allen's work very well indeed, chances are you have not yet seen his 1972 mockumentary Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story, which recently surfaced on YouTube.
I'll be honest: whenever I see the name "Keira Knightley" attached to a film, I usually run screaming in the other direction. I don't know why the Love Actually actress rubs me the wrong way, but she really does. So it comes as a great shock to me that after watching the trailer for her latest film Laggies, I actually want to see the movie.
Watching the 1964 camp classic Hercules Against the Moon Men the other day, I could not help but think about Dwayne Johnson and how truly perfect he is to succeed other Hercules actors and play the muscle-bound hero who has become a campy icon. Now that I have seen the latest Hercules TV spot, which features Johnson, his biceps, and a host of CGI beasties, I must say that I think my thoughts on this character have been confirmed.
