Ethan Hawke
Trailer Trashin’: Wild West Action in The Magnificent Seven Teaser Trailer
It’s almost the end of April, dear readers, and that means the start of the summer movie season is nearly upon us. This week’s installment of Trailer Trashin’ examines the teaser trailer for director Antoine Fuqua’s upcoming remake of The Magnificent Seven. Premise: With the town of Rose Creek under the deadly control of industrialist Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard), the desperate townspeople ...[Read More]
Movie Review: Boyhood
What Richard Linklater’s Boyhood accomplishes is due the highest praise; as a feat of extended cinematic biography, there have been few experiments as rounded, detailed, and character-developed as this twelve-year gamble. Nailing my heart to the wall with a good growing-up tale is a favorite cinematic past-time going back to a lot of young, smart French faces in the 1950s and 1960s; Russian kids w...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Purge
The Purge is definitely one film you will want to purge from your memory. This story features a seemingly interesting concept that is so poorly executed that it becomes the epitome of predictable. The premise being that in the year 2022, the new America is a much better and safer place because the government has instilled the Purge – a once-a-year twelve-hour event during which anyone can kill, ra...[Read More]
Cinema Revisited: The Brave New World of Gattaca
We have always been stargazers. We look into the night sky and wonder what is out there and if future generations will travel to far away worlds. And we wonder what kind of world we will see in our lifetime and what kind of world our children and their children will inhabit. We have romanticized about and expressed our hopes for the future in literature, art, and film. From Fritz Lang’s Metropolis...[Read More]