Starting with a dream like visual thanks to the bright color pallet, quickly filming style and framing Moonrise Kingdom is the latest movie to come from the strange world of Wes Anderson that should delight fans and most newcomers to his work.
There have many adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays over the years, including modernizations. Some have worked like Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet to more unsuccessful one like Sam Worthington’s 2006 version of Macbeth. Ralph Fiennes has turned to adapting a lesser known Shakespeare play, Coriolanus in his directional debut and he does it very well.
Oren Peli has done well for himself in recent years, mostly due to creating and guiding the “Paranormal Activity” series into financial success and reinvigorating (for better or worse) the low-budget horror genre. Now, Peli has come at us from a writer/producer angle with Chernobyl Diaries, and it’s safe to say his touch is showing serious fatigue.
Men in Black III is one of those movies that, according to all accepted rules of moviemaking, shouldn’t be nearly as good as it is, but it works, somehow.
A public hearing should be held for those involved with Battleship. The charges: misuse of company funds, petty theft (of each audience member’s $10), and brain cell genocide.
You first knew him as a Kazakh news reporter, then as an Austrian fashionista. Now, dedicated character comedian Sacha Baron Cohen plays a North African fascist in The Dictator. The journey of Admiral General Aladeen is unlike his predecessors in that it’s not done in a mockumentary style. So, how does this change the actor’s shtick?
Tim Burton’s latest outing, Dark Shadows, marks his eighth teaming with lead Johnny Depp and takes a ghoulish soap opera (with a ’70s twist) and crafts it into a frequently funny (but tonally deaf) lark that eventually succumbs to its own fondness for the occult.Tim Burton’s latest outing marks his eight teaming with lead Johnny Depp and takes a ghoulish soap opera (with a 70’s twist) and crafts a frequently funny (but tonally deaf) lark that eventually succumbs to its own fondness for the occult.
Ever since Marvel Studios started turning its properties into movies with the release of Iron Man in 2008, The Avengers was always going to be the endgame in one of the most ambitious blockbusters projects in recent times. Fans have been dying to know — is it worth the wait?
Two previous collaborations between Nicholas Stoller and Jason Segel, Forgetting Sarah Marshall and The Muppets, have been hilarious. Their latest, The Five-Year Engagement, is clever and sweet, but too often its characters get caught up in harpy bickering.
Aardman Animations’ latest stop-motion adventure The Pirates! Band of Misfits takes a wholesome approach to looting and pillaging while disorienting history in the process.
