After the critical failure that was the 1995 Sylvester Stallone-led adaptation, director Pete Travis and writer Alex Garland have taken it upon themselves to bring us a true to the source, hard as nails adaptation in eye popping 3D. They have succeeded and then some with Dredd 3D. The film gets off to an amazing start that is quite kinetic and slathered in gratuitous violence. I must admit, I wasn’t ready for the amount of violence and the stellar use of the 3D that is employed in...
We have finally received our first real glimpse into the upcoming historical epic that will be Steven Spielberg‘s Lincoln. DreamWorks and 20th Century Fox have released the first full-length trailer for the film today after providing only sparse teasers in the last couple of weeks. I have been patiently wait since it was announced that none other than Daniel Day-Lewis (Nine) was going to be portraying our 16th president. He is an actor who inhabits each and every role and...
After last years more than stellar adaptation of John le Carré‘s spy masterpiece Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, another one of le Carré’s novels is coming to the silver screen. A Most Wanted Man is being directed by Anton Corbijn (The American, Control) from a screenplay written by Andrew Bovell (Edge of Darkness). The story revolves around a mysterious, badly scarred man who arrives in Hamburg, Germany in an attempt to recover his father’s fortune. He gains sympathy from a...
After seeing the initial trailer for Martin McDonagh‘s next film Seven Psychopaths, I was hoping to get a more explicit view at the crazy situations McDonagh has put these characters in. Well, the red band trailer for the film has hit the web and is even more hilarious than I had hoped. My expectations were already high and this trailer does nothing more than raise those expectations even higher. I’m a huge fan of In Bruges and the cast and comedy here is just down right perfect....
Hugh Laurie (House M.D.) has been in talks to take on the villainous role of Raymond Sellars, the CEO of Omnicorp which is the company that creates the Robocop. With the film set to start shooting next month, it seems those negotiations have officially stopped and the actor has walked away from the project altogether. Michael Keaton (The Other Guys) will now officially join the already stellar cast rounding out Jose Padilha‘s vision. Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Samuel L....
Some amazing news was broken at the Metal Gear Solid 25th Anniversary presentation, the long rumored adaptation of the series into film will finally become reality. Kojima Productions and Columbia Pictures are planning on bringing to the silver screen the video game franchise that merged riveting and engaging storytelling into the fabric of gaming. Avi Arad, producer of the X-Men and Spider-Man films, is producing. “We will take our time and tell the story with all the nuances,...
After the huge critical success of We Need to Talk About Kevin, there are those of us who are eagerly anticipating Lynne Ramsay‘s upcoming western Jane Got a Gun. The film stars Natalie Portman (Thor), who is also producing the project. The screenplay written by Brian Duffield, was one of the infamous scripts on the annual Hollywood “Black List”, which is quite the good thing. With finacing now in order, Scott Pictures and Exclusive Media are producing, the western has...
The Criterion Collection has announced that it will release four titles on Blu-ray this November. Criterion will be kicking off November with Akira Kurosawa‘s Rashomon on the 6th. A week later, it will release Jean-Luc Godard‘s Weekend and Pier Paolo Pasolini‘s Trilogy of Life. The eclectic distributor will cap-off its November slate with the release of Michael Cimino‘s Heaven’s Gate on the 2oth. Below is a breakdown of each film’s specifications,...
As Christian Bale has put the cowl away after rounding out The Dark Knight Trilogy, there has been some speculation regarding what kind of roles the actor would take from now on. Bale has just finished his work on Scott Cooper‘s Out of the Furnace, which Relativity will distribute next year. He’s also been working with Terrence Malick on a pair of films that will take up the remainder of the year to shoot. So, with quite the busy slate for the rest of the year it seems Bale...
Ridley Scott‘s Prometheus, the quasi-prequel to his sci-fi masterpiece Alien, may not have been the film most fans expected or even wanted. However, whether you liked it or not, it all left us talking about it. There is no denying the film is quite the open-ended story and is ripe for a sequel. Rumors began circulating of another film as soon as it arrived in theaters. 20th Century Fox is looking to answer some of the questions left in the film in the form of a sequel we all were hoping...
