Review: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Remember the Russians? No, no – not the Russian mobsters from The Sopranos, those free-market capitalists extraordinaire who threatened to make the Mafia look like amateurs. I’m talking about the communists – the ideologically opposed Evil Empire on the other …
Review: Alvin & The Chimpmunks: Chipwrecked
SCENE: The bowels of the Hollywood Sequel Building, Kiddie Division. Screenwriters Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger have finished their monthly cocaine ration in only nine days, and are now crashing hard. But in checking the calendar to see when the …
A Closer, er, Wider Look at the Trailer for Men in Black 3: The Blackening
No, that's not the real title. And you know what else? I'm not going to post the trailer here. You know why? Here's a press release to tell you why. SONY PICTURES TAPS UNIQUE GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION ASSETS OF THE COMPANY …
Overheard: Spielberg and a Very Method-y Daniel Day-Lewis on the Set of Lincoln
I'm guessing it's gonna come when he visits Antietam... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS5W4RxGv4s
Reviews!
Critic fight! Big Screen blogger Scott Marks was none too fond of The Artist, calling it a "middling technical exercise" that proved that its director "can trace." But Reader critic David Elliott four-starred the thing, and dubbed it "a silky …
Cliche Alert: Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows
Yeah, yeah, I know, it's not out yet. So no spoilers. But if you had to guess whether our bad guy, Professor James Moriarty, likes to attend operas or bawdy house vaudeville, which would you pick? Opera: the choice of …
A Closer Look at the Trailer for The Dictator
After seeing this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXLuExO6j8Q ...you may find yourself wondering, "What the hell happened to Sacha Baron Cohen? The guy who eviscerated middle America with Borat was finally going to do a comedy with some edge!" No more poop in a …
A Closer Look at the Trailer for G.I. Joe: Retaliation
I knew it was a mistake to mention G.I. Joe yesterday...speak of the sequel, and it is there. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSX2oxLdcWA Only a few things to note here... Dollars to doughnuts, this is the image that got this project the greenlight. CO-BRAAAAAAA! …
New Poster for The Dark Knight Falls, er, Rises
The new poster for The Dark Knight Rises rather reminds me of another dark knight... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKhEw7nD9C4
A Closer Look at the Trailer for Battleship
Really, everything you need to know is right here: But just in case, here are a couple of bonus screen caps from the trailer: Oh my God - is that my career? I count two, maybe three sequels. Actually, it's …
A Closer Look at the Trailer for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Actually, you know what? No. I'm gonna let this guy do this one.
Oh, Please
Every year or so, the New York Times pretends not to be trading on purest celebrity appeal by doing one of these "actors are artists, and we understand that better than you do" pieces in their Sunday magazine. This year, …
A Closer Look at the Trailer for The Three Stooges
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4IoUo_ZJkY&feature=relmfu I dunno, guys. Only five eye-pokes in a nearly two-minute trailer? I have to question the Farrellys' commitment to the form.
A Closer Look at the Trailer for The Five-Year Engagement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoRF_Bzuwtk Don't look now, but this trailer actually contains a secret, subliminal message especially for readers of the Big Screen!
Reviews!
So I went and saw Shame: "Shame succeeds less as a work of dramatic fiction than of cinematic pathology. Sort of an illustrated medical casebook — a clinically minded viewer might be tempted to check off the symptoms as they …
Christmas Is Coming...
...and that means (as previously noted) another Christmas cover! Marks set the bar perilously high with his first post, so I won't even try to top it. Instead, I'll get all ruminatey about The Theology of Rankin-Bass as Illuminated by …
Reviews!
Good tidings, people. David Elliott is fond of Hugo -- not as fond as Mr. Marks perhaps, but then, it's entirely possible that director Martin Scorsese himself is not as fond of Hugo as Mr. Marks. I kid, I kid. …
Speaking of Awesome Film Posters...
Big Screen contributor Jay Allen Sanford has been doing yeoman work with his series on unreleased movie posters. Movie poster designers: they're just like us! Don't believe me? Check out these wonderful Fake Criterion Collection efforts. Enough to bring on …
A Closer Look at the Trailer for John Carter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tystuRBlmac Mercy, but that looks bad/boring/derivative. And the writing! "You are ugly...but you are beautiful." "That don't look like a fair fight." "Get on." "We did not cause this...but this very night...we will finish it!" Still, my favorite part has …
More Fun with The Great Gatsby
Progress continues apace on Baz Luhrmann's adaptation, and new set photos continue to trickle onto the web, including these of Leo as Gatsby and Carey Mulligan as Daisy, and Tobey Maguire as Nick. First, the meme: Then, a quick visit …