Stop! In the name of the law…s of quality cinema! Cop flicks and police procedurals are a criminally (no pun intended) undervalued and mistreated segment of the overarching crime genre and usually surface only as a regurgitation of clichés and embarrassing genre tropes.
Precious things are back this week with the second trailer for Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first film in his (now) trilogy which rockets us back to Middle Earth. Also returning with a second trailer is Sinister, but this time it’s come fully prepared to freak-out, offering up utterly disturbing footage that promises to make this the must-see horror film of the year.
This week on The Plot Hole we talk Man of Steel, Justice League, Skyfall, Lincoln and review Dredd 3D and Resident Evil: Retribution.
In the future, all the functions of law enforcement will be handed by an elite group of men and women who act as judge, jury and executioner. To celebrate this extraordinary abuse of power in the Judge Dredd series, we are going to look at some of the best, the most corrupt and most incompetent men and women who have enforced the law on the silver screen.
Well we can take a breath now. Summer season is over and we got through two weeks of The Possession sitting on top of a dismal box office run. Now, fall is beginning to kick in, and we’ve got a handleful of releases that cover a wide range of genres and categories.
Sadly missing a lot of vampire dicing and axe swinging, the decidedly more realistic tale of Abraham Lincoln has arrived with the trailer for Steven Spielberg’s aptly named Lincoln starring Daniel Day-Lewis.
Along with reviews of The Words, The Cold Light of Day and Bachelorette, The Plot Hole gang reports on early word from TIFF as well as new superhero movie news.
Do you like video games? Do you like movies? Can’t understand why Hollywood can’t put two and two together? We neither. That’s what prompted Let’s Play Movies, a new biweekly feature that discusses the cinematic potential of your favorite games and what should be done to maximize it. This week, I’m focusing on the Uncharted series.
Because movies ultimately start with a writer, it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that some of the best screenwriters — as well as some terrible ones — love injecting their own craft into a screenplay. Here are our 10 favorite movies about writer’s block, in honor of The Words (out this weekend).
With lower theater counts for The Words and The Cold Light of Day, you might want to check out something you might have missed in August instead, or explore some independent alternatives. If that doesn’t do it for you, guess which adventuring professor is on the big screen again, and in IMAX?
