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Alita: Battle Angel Review – Not As Crappy As the Trailer Makes It Look

Deirdre Crimmins — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 20:00:44 +0000

James Cameron is known for creating vast alien worlds and situating fun popcorn movies within them. While Robert Rodriguez directed Cameron’s script for Alita: Battle Angel, which itself is an adaptation of the manga series Gunnm, there’s no mistaking Cameron’s touch on this attempted blockbuster. Taking place on Earth, Alita is set in year 2563,...

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‘Downsizing’ Review: Small People, Big Ideas

Philip Brown — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 17:00:49 +0000

Alexander Payne, the American filmmaker more interested in little people and small moments than any other, has decided to make a science fiction movie. ‘Downsizing’ is unquestionably his biggest production to date. But with Payne being Payne, it’s also a movie about letting go and embracing the small things in life. On a certain level,...

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TIFF Journal: ‘Downsizing’

Philip Brown — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 15:00:57 +0000

Alexander Payne is the least likely filmmaker one would expect to make a sweeping sci-fi thinkpiece, and that’s exactly why ‘Downsizing’ is so intriguing. The writer/director who dedicated his career to mining the small moments of life for rich emotions and laughs has made a big science fiction film that somehow stays true to his...

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‘Tulip Fever’ Review: Sloppy Compromise in Pretty Costumes

Philip Brown — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 17:00:07 +0000

After sitting on a shelf somewhere in the Weinsteins’ offices for years, ‘Tulip Fever’ is finally getting unceremoniously dumped onto screens this weekend. Weirdly enough, a number of the actors became rather famous in the interim. You’d think that would mean that the movie is an unqualified failure that deeply embarrassed the studio, but it’s...

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‘The Legend of Tarzan’ Review: This Again, Only Super-Serious This Time

Philip Brown — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 19:00:29 +0000

It’s hard to imagine that anyone out there was really begging for a new Tarzan movie. The jungle hero raised by apes lost his cultural cachet long ago, even with a Disney cartoon to help stretch out the legacy. However, blockbusters are dictated by brand names now and the name Tarzan resonates even with viewers...

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‘Spectre’ Review: A Bond-Sized Victory Lap

Philip Brown — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 20:00:40 +0000

At its best, the Daniel Craig era of James Bond has been all about reinvention. ‘Casino Royale’ kicked things off with an origin story that allowed the Bond conventions to be twisted through the character’s inexperience. In ‘Skyfall’, Sam Mendes reverently deconstructed and toyed with the iconic images and elements of the series. (‘Quantum of...

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The Trailer Park: Spectre of the Fun

M. Enois Duarte — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 16:00:29 +0000

This week’s collection of movie trailers center around the wonderful theme of espionage, including a mercenary who can’t his mouth shut, a sleeper agent from the most unlikely of places, and the legend that all spies aspire to be. ‘Deadpool’ Poor Ryan Reynolds. Has anyone had as much bad luck appearing in a comic book...

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‘Big Eyes’ Review: A Very Burton Bio

Philip Brown — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 16:00:46 +0000

It’s been a couple years since Tim Burton emerged from what we can only assume to be an isolated Gothic mansion to make a new movie. His past few films felt like regressions, and his last (‘Frankenweenie’) was quite literally a remake of his own work. Thankfully, the director has returned with something that, on...

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‘Horrible Bosses 2’ Review: Horrible, Indeed

Philip Brown — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 16:00:13 +0000

Sequels are hard to pull off in general, but comedy sequels seem to be the most difficult beast to master. Few things are less funny than a joke you’ve heard too many times. By necessity, most comedy sequels tend to run a good joke into the ground. The first ‘Horrible Bosses’ was hardly a classic...

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‘Django Unchained’ Contest Results

Josh Zyber — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:00:09 +0000

The “D” may be silent, but our readers certainly weren’t. When we offered you the chance to win Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained’ on Blu-ray, you spoke up and provided a lot of great entries. Let’s find a winner, shall we? As explained in the original post, we challenged you to provide funny or clever captions...

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Now You Have My Attention – Win ‘Django Unchained’ on Blu-ray!

Josh Zyber — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:00:34 +0000

Turnout for last week’s contest was a little on the light side. Let’s see if we can heat things up here by giving away a hot new title this week. We have a Blu-ray copy of Quentin Tarantino’s blockbuster hit ‘Django Unchained‘ just waiting to make its way into one of our reader’s hands. Enter...

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Now Playing: Tarantino’s ‘Unchained’ Blaxploitation Western

Luke Hickman — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 14:00:35 +0000

Quentin Tarantino is back at it again, mixing genres and re-writing history, all while purposefully touching on taboo topics and using blatantly inappropriate dialogue. Don’t expect another Best Picture contender here, but ‘Django Unchained’ is a fun, bloody, wordy, cool and unpredictable QT flick. As he did in ‘Inglourious Basterds‘, Christoph Waltz opens this Tarantino...

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