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The Last Witch Hunter Official “Live Forever” Trailer Released
Vin Diesel returns to theaters this fall in the highly anticipated new film, The Last Witch Hunter – and he’s out to destroy the most powerful witches that ever walked the earth. Kaulder (Diesel) is the greatest soldier of the Axe and Cross. He is joined in his cinematic quest to rid the world of witches by a star-studded cast that boasts Elijah Wood, Rose Leslie, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Julie Enge...[Read More]
New Trailer from Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur Released
Pixar Animation Studio’s The Good Dinosaur asks the question: “What if the asteroid that forever changed life on Earth missed the planet completely and giant dinosaurs never became extinct?” Pixar Animation Studios takes you on an epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo (voice of Raymond Ochoa) makes an unlikely human friend. While traveling throu...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Mission: Impossible Keeps Steady; Fantastic Four Proves A Bit Rocky
The latest superheroes to get a reboot were ready to storm the box office, and failed to even break the second week returns of Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, which had a less than stellar start to begin with. Still, the Tom Cruise action thriller, with an estimated $29.4 million, is remaining fairly strong here and overseas, while Fantastic Four opened with an estimated $26.2 million, low ove...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Gift
It’s nearly impossible to say anything about what makes The Gift so good without revealing its two crucial, spine-tinglingly effective plot twists. The best any critic can really do in reviewing the flick is to say: The Gift is very, very good. Just stop reading and go see it now. But since I’m obligated to shake down something more than fifty words about the film, here are a few things that can b...[Read More]
Movie Review: Fantastic Four
Don’t let all the bad reviews and months of overwhelmingly negative buzz about Fantastic Four fool you: there are absolutely some praiseworthy elements to the film. There’s just not close to enough of any of them. Even setting aside the common fanboy complaint that this new take on the comic-book team is unnecessarily “dark and gritty,” there are undoubtedly flashes of a perfectly decent movie her...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: DC’s Villains Are Unleashed in the Suicide Squad Comic-Con Trailer
Happy August, dear readers. We’re in the last month of the summer movie season, and the big releases are starting to taper off. But there are always big movies to look forward to, and this week’s Trailer Trashin’ brings you my thoughts on our first look at the second of next year’s DC Comics movies – David Ayer’s Suicide Squad. Premise: A secret government agency run by hig...[Read More]
Norm of the North Official Trailer Released
Meet Norm – a not-so-normal polar bear who has taken it upon himself to protect the land he calls home – The Arctic. In the adorable upcoming animated feature, Norm of the North, Norm and his furry sidekicks venture to New York City to stop the big, evil corporations from turning their home into the newest vacation destination. Get a first look at the mischief they’ve rallied up in the film’...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: An Impossible Mission? Not for Cruise
With a strong advertising blitz and J.J. Abrams in a producing chair, it seemed almost certain that Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation would be a top box office draw – and it was, reaching first with an estimated $56 million and garnering all sort of praise. And while it has opened very well compared to the previous Mission: Impossible films (second only to Mission: Impossible II), it has strangel...[Read More]
Movie Review: Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
If you’ve seen any of the marketing for Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, you’ve almost certainly seen the image of Tom Cruise gripping the side of a jet plane as it takes off. The outrageous stunt is real, and the laws of modern movie marketing would seem to dictate that this could well be the money shot for the whole movie. So there’s a certain refreshing pleasure in sitting down to watch the ...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: The Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Comic-Con Trailer Shot By Shot
Hello again, dear readers, and I hope a lot of you have gotten out to see Ant-Man at this point. To help make up for my recent absence, this week’s return of Trailer Trashin’ brings you my looks at both of the big DC Comics movie trailers to come out of San Diego Comic-Con earlier this month. Now, I use my X-ray vision on the new trailer for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Premise:...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Ant-Man Takes on Adam Sandler and Wins
Adam Sandler, regardless of the quality of his movies, is almost always a sure bet at the box office. However, his latest, Pixels, opened not only to poor reviews, but to a poor opening estimate of $24 million and below Ant-Man and its second week estimated take of $24.7 million. Also, in a stunning turn of events, nearly every movie in the top ten revealed its budget numbers, and as it turns out,...[Read More]
James Bond Returns in New Spectre Trailer
Can we say that Daniel Craig incarnation of James Bond rivals Sean Connery’s at this point, or is that still considered blasphemy? Given that Skyfall (2012) is, at least until the release of Spectre, the most complete and entertaining Bond film ever produced, I wonder if we can’t mention the two actors in the same sentence without feeling the least bit guilty. The new trailer for Spectre does very...[Read More]