Celebrity biopics are difficult to do well - they have to have the right casting and the right director and they have to avoid the usual cliches of rise, fall and redemption. They typically either represent their subjects as brilliant and luminous, or dark and desperate, but rarely do they manage to capture the complexity of a real human being. We can hope that the upcoming biopic of Montgomery Clift, entitled Monty Clift according to IMDb, will do justice to its difficult subject.
Charles Dickens wrote over a dozen novels, novellas and short stories in his lifetime, but according to most film adaptations he might as well have only written three. The latest in a long line of Dickens adaptations for the big screen is, yet again, Great Expectations, this time featuring Helena Bonham Carter as Miss Havisham, and a bunch of other people I've never heard of looking desperate and Victorian.
I am fully aware that there are some people (apparently the guys over at The Playlist, for instance) who are not all about Robert Rodriguez's sequel to Machete, the aptly named Machete Kills. I realize that and I'm OK with that. But if you're not into it, then I hope you also realize just how really, incredibly wrong you are.
It must be Oscar season. We are being increasingly subjected to weepy trailers featuring soft-lit corridors, big stars making powerful speeches and tales of apparent importance told in booming, serious and epic tones. The latest in your list of Oscar-bait contenders is Grace Of Monaco, whose first teaser came flying at us from the UK today. Prepare yourselves.
Bill & Ted 3 is one of those films that seems like a rumor. Could they really manage to bring back everyone's favorite slackers for another adventure, many years on? Isn't that just a pipe-dream? Not so, with a script done and a director in place. But something appears to be holding up the works, and according to Keanu Reeves it has to do with ... darkness.
Yesterday, we had yet another still from the Stallone/DeNiro fight comedy Grudge Match. Now we have the first trailer and it's pretty much what you would expect from two iconic but geriatric fighters.
I would think that messing with Jason Statham's daughter is just as bad an idea as messing with Liam Neeson's daughter. But James Franco likes courting danger, or so it appears in the Homefront trailer.
Kurt Neumann’s 1958 science-fiction film The Fly has finally had its day on Blu-ray, in a new release from 20th Century Fox, and my! How very pretty it looks.
Grudge Match is the next in a long line of self-referential films from iconic stars, but this one has the chance to be more than usually iconic. The film pits Robert DeNiro and Sylvester Stallone against each other as two aging boxers meeting again 50 years after they fought each other for the title. If you don't know why that pairing is iconic, you apparently don't like movies.
Benedict Cumberbatch has it all: a hit show, parts in seemingly hundreds of hotly anticipated dramas and blockbusters, and, of course, a totally awesome name. In a recent profile from The Hollywood Reporter, Cumberbatch talked about all the fun things he gets to do, like playing Julian Assange and totally not appearing in Star Wars Episode VII.
