A painting, murder, deceit, young love, and a decapitated head, where else, but at The Grand Budapest Hotel? Set in the fictional European country of Zubrowka during the 1960s, the tale is as follows: The concierge of the Grand Budapest, Gustave, is having an affair with a wealthy, older lady. There’s nothing particularly special about […]
DISCussion’s Recommendation of the Week is the Blu-ray re-release of the 1955 James Dean movie Rebel Without a Cause. The re-release features include a commentary, a behind the scene documentary and deleted scenes. First Release – Inside Llewyn Davis (DVD and Blu-ray) – The Book Thief (DVD and Blu-ray) – Out of the Furnace (DVD […]
This past weekend box office reigned in blood, as 300: Rise of an Empire managed to take the top spot in theaters. Opening at a healthy $45 million in the U.S., the sequel to Frank Miller’s 300 was a major success, knocking off Liam Neeson’s Non-Stop, Son of God and The Lego Movie down a […]
300: Rise of an Empire is a sequel that expands on the original film and manages to satisfy one’s urge to see carnage and bloodshed on the big screen. Typically, sequels that are filmed years apart, like Escape from L.A. and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, are usually terrible in their […]
While video games have become cinematic over the last 15 years or so, there has yet to be a single franchise that’s made the transition into breathtaking cinema. Hopefully, Sam Raimi will be changing that, with his Ghost House Pictures planning to turn Naughty Dog’s PS3 hit, The Last of Us, into a full fledged feature […]
Dystopia sci-fi is an ever popular mainstay in British fiction with novels like Nineteen Eighty-Four and A Brave New World being published and set in the nation. One movie that is loosely based on a novel that takes both a top-down and bottom-up approach is Alfonso Cuarón’s brilliant Children of Men. In 2027, humanity is […]
Three years after Chicago was ravaged by a giant Decepticon snake, the metallic menaces from outer space are back with the first full length look at Michael Bay’s Transformers: Age of Extinction. In addition to an overhaul in terms of leads (most notably Mark Wahlberg swapped for Shia LaBeouf) this fourth entry in the mega […]
