Packing an accomplished supporting cast including Ewan McGregor, Stanley Tucci, Bill Nighy, and Ian McShane, Jack the Giant Slayer offers a visual feast supported by a solid script in this reimagining of the classic fairy tale.
The Oscars and the hubbub of awards season now settling into memory and looking back on 2012, it was a very good year for glorious portraits of actual individuals in action. As we celebrate the success of Best Picture Argo (such an understatement!) and fellow nominees Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty, it seems a perfect time to take a look back at some of the other most compelling real life stories brought to film.
Taut, suspenseful, insightful, and relentless, Snitch lets Dwayne Johnson display some acting chops and places Michael Kenneth Williams squarely on any casting director's radar.
Ribald, relentless, and eminently enjoyable, Identity Thief offers the off-color comedy enthusiast sumptuous fare indeed. From director Seth Gordon (Horrible Bosses) comes this raucous road movie starring Jason Bateman as Sandy Patterson, financial manager and loving family man, who finds himself facing down Melissa McCarthy’s Sandy Patterson, aka Diana, aka the identity thief who dismantled his life with a recent unauthorized shopping spree.
Triple-Oscar-nominee Laura Linney is apparently exploring a reunion with her Kinsey director Bill Condon, who is on board to helm the as-yet-untitled Julian Assange/Wikileaks Project. Though currently unclear as to the precise role, her customary level-headed passion will lend certain power to the proceedings, regardless of which side of the controversy she’ll argue (and you know she’ll argue, it’s what she does best!).
Sporting a new, streamlined title, the gorefest formerly known as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre will hit theaters in full near-NC-17 glory as Texas Chainsaw 3D (after all, "massacre" was really kinda redundant). Though the pull cord won't fire until the New Year, fans can get into the holiday spirit now with a sneak peek via the new clip below.
Twentieth Century Fox has released the first trailer Bridesmaids director Paul Feig’s The Heat, and while it does look familiar, it still promises to be plenty funny. After all, despite its formula you can’t ever really go wrong with an amusing buddy pic ~ assuming excellent execution, of course.
Toward achieving a détente of sorts between himself and the Academy of Motion Picture of Arts and Sciences after commenting last month that the award process is “total, utter bullshit” (read the full story here), Joaquin Phoenix has refined his position, now acknowledging the Academy for its “tremendous” contribution to his career, and clarifying that he wasn't so much against the Academy Awards so much as against anything obstructive to being a performer.
Thanks to the creative talents of TinyMaster, also known as Emma Price, James Bond's sexual escapades are lovingly preserved as an infographic, or as she aptly refers to it, "nymphographic."
