Even though writer/director George Lucas has handed off the reigns of the next Star Wars installment (recently unveiled title: Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens) over to J.J. Abrams (Star Trek: Into Darkness), he is keeping busy with other projects. According to Variety, Disney will release Lucasfilm’s animated feature Strange Magic on January 23, 2015. […]
New on DVD this week are some pretty big features including Mood Indigo, Tammy, and Let’s Be Cops. Although there is a great Criterion double-feature and an excellent Bruce Lee box set, we did not hesitate to select one of the best animated features of the year as our Recommendation of the Week: How to Train Your Dragon 2. New Release: […]
It has been a century since the outbreak of World War I, one of the bloodiest conflicts in history that still has a political and cultural impact in Europe to this day. It is one of the first wars that affected the British home front on mass. This handsomely made period drama sets out to […]
Swedish actress Alicia Vikander is one of biggest emerging actresses around, having won and been nominated for a number of awards. She has a busy 2015 ahead of her with six movies set to be released, ranging from potential blockbusters to prestigious historical movies. Her latest movie, Testament of Youth is on the festival circuit, so […]
As a guest at this year’s LEFFEST, Anderson made his first appearance in the Portuguese festival to screen Vittorio De Sica’s 1954 film, The Gold of Naples. An episodic film, The Gold of Naples presents six unrelated stories which only share the commonality of having taken place in Naples. After the film, Anderson sat down with festival director, Paulo […]
Theodore Melfi’s road to producing his breakout feature, St. Vincent is almost as captivating as the movie itself. With a strong cast and quick dialogue, St. Vincent is a heartfelt comedy that explores the many relationships humans have with each other. Vincent (Bill Murray) is a low-down drunk, whose sharp tongue and lack of interpersonal […]
The film’s tagline is as follows: Go further. If you’ve seen one of the posters for this movie, you are well aware of this fact. Christopher Nolan’s latest offering does just that. It dares to go further than any other sci-fi epic in the last few years in terms of its lofty ideas and universal […]
