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Downton Abbey’s Dan Stevens Shines in New Trailer for The Guest
The official US trailer for the new thriller The Guest from director Adam Wingard was released exclusively on Yahoo! Movies. But you can see it right here on CinemaNerdz. From the director of You’re Next and featuring a standout, badass performance from Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey), comes The Guest: a tense, action-packed and unpredictable film like everything and nothing you’ve ever se...[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]
Box Office Weekend: Guardians Protect Box Office
Marvel continues its 2014 box office hit parade with another big winner: Guardians of the Galaxy took the top spot for the comic book movie studio with an estimated $94 million and rave reviews. And while it is still a ways off domestically from its $170 million production costs, it nearly made that back in a single weekend counting its worldwide estimated totals. It smashed all other box office t...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Welcome Back to the Wasteland in Mad Max: Fury Road
After another longer-than-expected absence, I’m back, dear readers, and I’m hoping to get this column back on something approaching a regular schedule. More importantly, this week finally sees the release of Guardians of the Galaxy, which I hope to be watching by the time you’re reading these words. But it’s never too early to look ahead to what’s coming out next year, and ...[Read More]
Official SpongeBob: Sponge Out of Water Trailer Released!
The official trailer for SpongeBob: Sponge Out of Water has been released. To say that it’s trippy doesn’t do it justice. Don’t believe me? Take a look at the still below that showcases Patrick Star (as Mr. Superawesomeness), SpongeBob SquarePants (as The Invincibubble), Squidward Tentacles (as Sour Note), and Mr. Krabs (as Sir Pinch-A-Lot). SpongeBob: Sponge Out of Water brings ...[Read More]
Intriguing New Trailer for The Maze Runner Released
The new trailer for the sci-fi action film The Maze Runner was just released, and it gives me hope that the movie might be more than just a retread of Divergent following in the considerable wake of The Hunger Games. It looks like there’s plenty of action and mystery at work here and that could make for a pretty entertaining film. Then again, we’ve all been burned by trailers before haven...[Read More]
Kevin Smith’s Tusk Will Premiere at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival
Writer/director Kevin Smith’s new horror film, Tusk will enjoy its world premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Smith and Tusk join a long list of established and emerging directors that fill this year’s TIFF slate, which showcases new documentary films by Nick Broomfield, Ethan Hawke, The Yes Men, Joshua Oppenheimer, Frederick Wiseman, Jonathan Nossiter, and first-time...[Read More]
Hot Tub Time Machine 2 Goes Terminator with Red-Band Trailer
Well, it turns out that a hot tub time machine can do more than travel backwards in time, and it might have a mind of its own, as we learn in the e new red-band trailer for Hot Tub Time Machine 2. As the Repairman states: “The hot tub doesn’t take you where you want to go, it takes you where you need to go.” In the new red-band trailer for Hot Tub Time Machine 2, the sequel to Hot Tub Time Machine...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Lucy at the Box Office with Diamonds
While critics may be saying relatively the same thing about these films, things are shaping up very differently at the box office for the two big releases this weekend. Lucy, getting slightly worse reviews than its competition Hercules, nevertheless took the first-place spot with $43.9 million – more than enough to be make money against its $40 million budget. Hercules took second with $29.8 milli...[Read More]
Movie Review: Hercules
Thankfully, Hercules is not an origin film. Though it is about the titular hero from Greek myth, The Legend of Hercules (2014) from earlier this year already took that approach so it is just as well. Here, the fabled strong-man (Dwayne Johnson) has already performed all but one of his legendary labors when the story opens. The newHercules was directed by Bret Ratner of Rush Hour (1998) fame and X-...[Read More]
Movie Review: Sex Tape
Settling into Sex Tape, I was looking forward to a couple of hours of laughter from this supposed comedy of the summer. (Maybe not pee-your-pants laughter, but more of a constant snicker with an occasional guffaw.) The kind of giggles that typically come with the territory of a Cameron Diaz and/or Jason Segel film. Besides, who doesn’t like a naughty, sexy comedy? Plus, Sex Tape director Jak...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Purge: Anarchy
The Purge: Anarchy is the follow-up to last year’s surprise hit The Purge (2013). The initial film made about twenty times its’ budget, in the US alone, so a sequel was inevitable. I must confess to not having seen The Purge until just this week, in order to prep for this latest installation, of what now appears to be a mini-franchise. The Purge: Anarchy and the original are marketed as horr...[Read More]