Alan Arkin
“Minions: The Rise of Gru” Trailer & Poster Released
The poster and trailer for "Minions: The Rise of Gru" have just been released for the film and you can check them out right here.
Movie Review: Million Dollar Arm
The film Million Dollar Arm is a family-friendly drama that is based on the real-life story of the first Indian athletes to become involved with any major American sports franchise. The film was directed by Craig Gillespie and written by Tom McCarthy. Neither gentleman has a huge list of credits to their respective professions but what they do have is largely decent quality and have latched onto a...[Read More]
Movie Review: Grudge Match
While the movies have brought us many great sports films over the decades, boxing seems to hold a special place in film history, and has brought us some of the true classics of cinema history. And even as boxing has become less popular among the general American public, Hollywood’s love affair with pugilism has kept going strong. The twenty-first century has already brought us such acclaimed...[Read More]
Movie Review: Stand Up Guys
What you are about to read is more of a serious warning, than anything else. Have you ever wanted to un-see something? For those of us that hold the all-star cast of Stand Up Guys in the highest esteem, your image of each of them could be quite possibly changed forever. I envisioned greatness as I pictured Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, and Alan Arkin together in a gangster movie! This would-be co...[Read More]
Movie Review: Argo
Continuing with the dual director-actor role that brought him success with The Town (2010), Ben Affleck has hit another home run with Argo, a drama-thriller that recounts the daring CIA-backed rescue of six Americans who managed to escape the U.S. Embassy in Tehran as Iranian militants loyal to the Ayatollah Khomeini stormed the embassy on November 4, 1979, and ended up holding 52 Americans hostag...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Change-Up
What happens when you take a few formulaic cinema tropes and add loads of blue humor? You get director David Dobkin’s latest film The Change-Up starring Jason Bateman, Ryan Reynolds, and Olivia Wilde. Sure, you’ve seen the basic premise before in movies like Big, Freaky Friday, The Hot Chick, 13 Going on 30, and 17 Again (to name just a few), but The Change-Up is probably the most vulg...[Read More]