Having spent the bulk of his resume playing the same character, the question of whether or not Radcliffe would survive being forever-branded “Harry Potter” was one that had been asked well before the last film debuted.Will The Woman in Black lead Radcliffe to the next stage of his career?
A recap of all the films to watch for that buzzed at Sundance 2012. Includes The Raid, Robot and Frank, Beasts of the Sourthern Wild, Liberal Arts, Smashed, Shut Up and Play the Hits, Safety Not Guaranteed, Bachelorette, Compliance and The Surrogate.
February offerings appear all over the map, from 3D gimmicks to Valentine’s Day romances to some small-budget projects looking for big-time results. As always, Player Affinity has your movies scoped out and the latest buzz on all these films.
It’s a joining of the established and the up-and-coming action stars as Bruce Willis and Henry Cavill play father and son in the globe-trotting action thriller The Cold Light of Day. Then it’s shakes on a plane with the airborne supernatural horror flick 7500, which finds a Japan-bound flight terrorized by an angry presence.
Heigl’s breakthrough to prominence, however, didn’t pave the way for a George Clooney-like film career of prestige. Rather, she decided to tackle comedy. Unfortunately, the laugher path she pursued brought little laughs with it, as the majority of her films lack uniqueness or charm.
We’re looking back at films that used single settings to do something (or try to do something) unique. Not all these films are great, but they do have one thing in common: they find interesting ways to make the characters and viewers claustrophobic.
We have a decidedly unique slate of movie clips for you this week on Player Affinity. First off is the odd teaser trailer for the fifth installment in the popular video-game franchise with Resident Evil: Retribution, once again starring Milla Jovovich as the baddie-slaying mutant.
With a couple big parts in 2005, Liam Neeson began to reinvent himself from dramatic thespian to the badass we’ve come to know and love (and whom money-hungry studios can rely on). It’s the kind of image change publicists only fantasize about.
Oscar nomination morning is generally met with equally high amounts of shock and disgust. This appears especially true in 2012, as a new Best Picture voting system was put to the test for the first time, a number of highly respected performances were snubbed, and a movie with just a 48% on RottenTomatoes.com earned nominations in two major categories, including Best Picture. Here’s our rundown of an especially chaotic nomination day.
Qualifying a film to “cult” status is a matter of debate. Regardless of genre or box-office tally, one universal trait to a cult film is the pure, unadulterated dedication of the fans to said film.
