Director Roland Emmerich is known for tackling big-budget spectacles like Independence Day and 2012. For his next project, he is switching gears and going smaller scale by taking on a historical drama. Stonewall deals with the LGBTQ community in the late ’60’s and their fight for equal rights. According to Deadline, studio Roadside Attractions has released a first trailer for the […]
I suppose in a world where we have had a ‘Battleship’ movie, and are set to get ones based on emoticons and Monopoly (the latter helmed by Gattaca writer/director Andrew Niccol, no less), having a movie based on a candy that comes out of famous characters’ necks isn’t too much of a stretch. Variety reports that Envision […]
In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock terrorised cinema audiences with Psycho – a film that revolutionized the horror genre and remains one of greatest psychological thrillers ever made. Psycho was however not the only film to cause an uproar that year. When the French chiller Eyes Without a Face (“Les yeux sans visage“) screened at the Edinburgh Film Festival, seven people people fainted […]
Justice League: Gods and Monsters is the long awaited return to the DC animated form by the much acclaimed Bruce Timm. Now, full disclosure, while I grew up with the various “DCAU” cartoon shows, I never felt much beholden to them. In fact, as I’ve grown into a more well-read comics fan, there are parts […]
The promotional push for the new Fantastic Four movie is hitting full steam as we near its release date of August 7th. It’s still a little too early for reviews to come in so it’s hard to tell whether there is a good movie in store or not. As most know, this is a reboot […]
Billy Wilder is one of the greatest writer/directors of his generation, making numerous classic movies from the 1940s to the 1960s and having two Oscar wins for Best Director to his name. One of his award-winning movies, Stalag 17, is now being re-released by Eureka Entertainment as a part of their Masters of Cinema Collection. In […]
The coming-of-age sub-genre of teenage movies is a well-worn one, done to death at this point. They’re a dime a dozen, with characters who always learn valuable lessons that enrich their lives as they transition from adolescence to young adulthood. When done well, they can transcend the genre like the excellent examples of The Perks of […]
