District 9 is causing some turmoil in the African country of Nigeria due to the portrayal of Nigerians in the film. The Associated Press is reporting that Niger...
Sony Pictures Animation | USA | 90 mins
I’ve been taught over the years to not expect much from animated films that don’t have the Pixar stamp on them. O...
According to a press release by IMAX Corporation and Columbia Pictures today, Spider-Man 4 will be released for traditional screens as well as in all IMAX t...
Lionsgate | USA | 92 minutes
Built like a heist film with the added subconscious tension that the stakes are real and danger is actually imminent, The Cove...
Anything Park Chan-Wook creates is guaranteed to be unique, brilliant, and very twisted at a minimum. Well, anything that isn’t I’m a Cyborg at least. Park’s newest film titled THIRST is a vampire romance-erotic-thriller-dark comedy-drama -- yes, that is a lot of adjectives -- inspired by the 19th century French novel by Emile Zola titled Therese Raquin. Park creates a uniquely Korean, and uniquely Park, vision of the vampire mythos and asks the audience to explore the dilemma of a Catholic priest discovering himself having a thirst for blood and the moral and spiritual crisis that would develop. Park delivers on the elements you would hope but definitely falls short of masterpiece quality like Oldboy or even that of Lady Vengeance. Heavily bloated with a narrative that often loses itself much less the audience, THIRST desperately needed another trip through the cutting room. It crawls when it should be running but luckily brings it back home before losing the audience completely. As negative as it may sound the positives definitely outweigh the negatives and another volume has without a doubt been added to the dark and twisted Zeitgeist of Park Chan-Wook film....
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is about as luke warm and formulaic as successful family film can be served. With the tone of a 94 minute Saturday morning cartoon you can’t expect a lot. Watching a movie like Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs in the age of Pixar makes me ask myself - What’s the point? It has little heart and moves at a pace that dangerously flirts with losing your attention, but I’m definitely not the target audience for movies like this. While modern family entertainment has proved it can be relevant for children and adults alike -- Do I even need to say Pixar again? -- the target audience for the Ice Age series is definitely below the 5th grade reading level. The franchise is in danger of becoming as relevant as the Land Before Time series. Remember that? I believe we’re on Land Before Time XIII now. Bottom line is will your kids enjoy it? The answer is yes. Should you see this movie in the theatre if you don’t have any kids? The answer is most assuredly no. If you’re having a craving for mildly entertaining animation save your $15 to $20 and tune into Nickelodeon....
“Once, not long ago, a small Egyptian police band arrived in Israel. Not many remember this. It was not that important.”
The Alexandria Police Ceremonial Orchestra arrives in Israel at the request of the Arab Cultural Center in Peta Tikva to play at their grand opening. With the potential disbanding of the Orchestra, the stoic leader and conductor Colonel Tawfiq Zacharya (Sasson Gabai) is determined to make the trip a success and bring honor to the Orchestra. Despite his best efforts the band runs into problems immediately upon arrival. The band is stranded in a foreign land unable to reach anyone who could help them. Attempting to find transportation on their own, the Arabic/Hebrew language barrier mistakingly sends them to a small empty town in the Israeli desert called Betah Tikva and not the Petah Tikva that invited them to play. With no more buses until morning and no hotels in the town the band finds themselves marooned for the night dependent on the kindness of strangers. A group of Arab men stuck in an Israeli town provokes thoughts of conflict and turmoil. However we are shown that even in the midst of a problem as large as Israeli/Arabic conflict we are all cut from the same cloth and the emotions and personalities that make us who we are transcend political and religious boundaries....
Bloody Disgusting is reporting that the live action Akira remake is dead with no chance of revival. Ruari Robinson, who was set to direct the American bastardization of an iconic Japanese manga, has left the project and the project as a whole is no longer being pushed by the studio. There really must be a film god out there.
Akira was originally a Japanese manga published in 1988 that was then transferred to the silver screen co-written and directed by Katsuhiro Otomo. The story was set in a post-nuclear apocalyptic "New Tokyo" in the year 2019. A teenager in a biker gang is experimented on by the government which results in unleashing his previously unknown powers. The leader of the gang must then try to stop the carnage....
New Line Cinema has released a trailer for the long awaited The Time Traveler’s Wife, or as I like to call it Met Six Year Old Girl And Travels Through Time to Marry Her In The Future Guy’s Wife. I know we are all supposed to believe in a true love that knows no bounds including space and time, but am I the only one that finds this plot a little strange? Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams co-star in this adaptation of the 2004 best seller by Audrey Niffenegger. The film features a librarian (Bana) that has Chrono-Displacement Disorder. Yes you read correctly, Chrono-Displacement Disorder. This genetic disorder randomly hurtles Bana involuntarily through time. He meets his wife (McAdams) at various points in her life in his travels. The random time traveling naturally becomes the crux of their marriage and the film explores that dynamic. The film is now set for a theatrical release on August 14th, 2009. Check out the trailer after the jump and leave your thoughts in the comments below....
Star Director Danny Boyle has signed a three-year exclusive production deal with Fox Searchlight and Pathe Pictures. Both production houses were key players in the sensational success of Boyle’s 2008 hit Slumdog Millionaire.
Fox Searchlight and Pathe Pictures will co-finance and co-produce Boyle’s future films with Searchlight handling the domestic distribution and Pathe distributing in Europe....
