While I do have a small blue car and a license plate that reads "3APPLZ," I have mixed feelings about a Smurf's film. And in 3D at that. This appears to be a first, early marketing comp. Nice move on the Scarface reference. Oh the toys and cross-promotions this movie will bring.
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Director Rob Zombie recently said that he would “never” bring audiences a third installment of his Halloween films, following the release of his sequel, Halloween 2, this weekend. Let us all take a moment to respond with a collective, “Thank You!” As reboots/re-imaginings/regurgitations go, Zombie’s Halloween of 2007 was a noteworthy effort, largely in showing a different, interesting perspective on the origins of Michael Meyers. Zombie carries that same narrative vision into Halloween 2, but frustratingly manages to butcher the story from beginning to end. Michael’s accomplished pursuit of nubile prey trails Zombie’s ability to ferret out and eliminate any residual value from his original, inspired direction. And not unlike many scenes in the film, audiences are left standing in a sad, bloody mess.
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No, the film Whiteout isn’t about a menacing bottle of the liquid paper you used to sniff in high-school. Although, Kate Beckinsale’s character does stand the chance of being erased if she’s not careful. Ha! Get it?
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Christopher Nolan’s next film, Inception, is due in just about a year. While there has certainly been some buzz about The Dark Knight-director’s next project, details have been sparse, save for the stellar cast lined up, which includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Cillian Murphy and Ellen Page. The footage below isn’t so much a trailer [...]
The first trailer for James Cameron’s much-hyped Avatar doesn’t exactly frag one’s sci-fi sensibilities as many were hoping. While this is the first clear look at what’s coming in December, I have to think there’s a lot more awaiting us. Cameron’s use of 3D, for instance, is supposed to be a game-changer, though we have [...]
One hundred and forty minutes is an awful lot of foreplay for a 10-minute payoff. Yet that’s what Quentin Tarantino is requiring of audiences who commit to his latest film, Inglourious Basterds.
Set in Nazi-occupied France, Inglourious Basterds is Tarantino doing what he does: taking serious and bloody topics and approaching them with a quirky, irreverent eye. The “basterds,” besides being poor spellers, are a group of soldiers (many of them Jewish) with one mission and one mission only: killin’ Naatzis. Naughtzis? Gnat-zees? (It’s tough to phonetically spell Nazis the way Brad Pitt manages to drawl the phrase in the film.)
