Endless Love (★★)
Why did anyone feel the need to go and remake Endless Love? It’s certainly not because the original is a particularly good movie, and it’s not like it’s a well known title on its own (aside from the...
View Article‘Godzilla’ gets a new Trailer
Man, this film just rocketed up the list of 2014 titles I’m dying to see. It’s easy to dismiss a reboot/remake of Godzilla as uneccessary, but as that first teaser/trailer showed, not only is there a...
View ArticleTop Ten Tuesdays – Films in Need of a Sequel or Remake
Sequels and remakes are often frowned upon in the film critic community. While we live in an age where the “remake” is in full force and drowning every classic we’ve known and loved, there are some...
View ArticleHistorical Circuit: Gojira (★★★)
Does a sixty-year-old movie about a giant monster attacking Japan still possess the longevity and originality to 2014 audiences obsessed with CGI and 3D? The answer is a resounding YES, and in honor of...
View ArticleA live action version of ‘Dumbo’ is coming?
There’s no way around this one folks…a live action Dumbo sounds really terrible. Factor in that Transformers: Age of Extinction (and other gems in that franchise) scribe Ehren Kruger is working on the...
View ArticleBill Murray will be the voice of Baloo in ‘The Jungle Book’
Now here’s a decently good way to get me a bit more excited about this project. Up until now, I can’t say I cared much about Jon Favreau‘s upcoming live action remake of The Jungle Book. I like...
View ArticleRichard Linklater is planning his next film after ‘Boyhood’
Now that Boyhood has become a bit of a crossover hit and a surefire Oscar contender, it seems like Richard Linklater is going to be able to basically make whatever he want as his follow up. As such,...
View ArticleFilm Review: The Equalizer (★★★)
For some, the only knowledge that they have of The Equalizer is that it was referenced briefly in last year’s The Wolf of Wall Street. Others are more cognizant of the television show that ran from the...
View ArticleFirst Trailer for ‘The Gambler’ is here to lay its cards on the table
Depending on who you are, the upcoming remake of The Gambler is either an X factor Oscar contender laying in wait or potentially this year’s version of Out of the Furnace (need I say more about that...
View ArticleZach Braff has potentially lined up his first for hire directorial job
I know it sometimes feels like I’m on a bridge by myself when it comes to admiring the films of Zach Braff, but I didn’t imagine everyone else being very fond of his debut Garden State. True, no one...
View ArticlePaul Greengrass is looking to remake ‘1984’?
Coming off of Captain Phillips and with a return to the Jason Bourne franchise alongside Matt Damon on the horizon, you’d think that Paul Greengrass would have a ton of original ideas that he’d finally...
View ArticleHistorical Circuit: Annie (★½)
Oh boy. I really have to control my anger and frustration for today’s review in honor of the upcoming remake of Annie starring Quvenzhane Wallis and Cameron Diaz. In a nutshell, I hated this movie....
View ArticleFilm Review: The Gambler (★★½)
If there’s one thing I love in a movie, it’s a supporting performance that helps elevate the final product from mediocrity. In the case of The Gambler, the lead performance of Mark Wahlberg, while...
View ArticleWarner Brothers Gives Release Date to ‘Creed’ and moves ‘Point Break’...
The powers that be over at Warner Brothers are clearly doing some release date housekeeping. Earlier, it came out that WB has given the Rocky sequel/spinoff Creed an official release date and bumped...
View ArticleBradley Cooper’s directorial debut may be ‘A Star is Born’
While I had a hunch that working with Clint Eastwood would rub off on Bradley Cooper somehow, I don’t think this is what anyone had in mind. According to reports, Cooper is going to be making his...
View ArticleDisney is planning to make a Live-Action ‘Mulan’
Well, you’ve basically asked for this folks…Disney is more or less going down the line planning live action remakes of their animated classics after the success of Cinderella this year, Maleficent last...
View ArticleHistorical Circuit: Far From the Madding Crowd (1967) (★★)
In honor of its remake opening this week, let’s go back to 1967 when Thomas Hardy’s novel first received the big-budget Hollywood treatment. Far From the Madding Crowd is a difficult text to adapt...
View ArticleFirst Poster and Trailer drop for the remake of ‘Point Break’
Before we get to the meat of this post, we should just get one thing out in the open…yes, it’s no secret that nobody is asking for a remake of Point Break. Is it unnecessary and a combination cash in...
View ArticlePaul Thomas Anderson is writing ‘Pinocchio’ for Robert Downey Jr.
Now here’s some pretty weird news. It’s odd enough that Robert Downey Jr. is of the mind that we need a new Pinocchio movie, but now he’s recruited someone pretty unexpected to join him in that...
View ArticleLive Action version of ‘The Sword in the Stone’ is coming our way from Disney
One of my absolute favorite animated films from Disney is The Sword in the Stone. All throughout my childhood I watched, sang along to, and quoted it like it was my job. That puts me in an interesting...
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