Anatomy of a Press Photo: You guys, Terminator 5 is going to be SO awesome...
I'm guessing that instead of asking, "Sarah Connor?" she'll just go with "Mommy?" which totally ups the fear factor.
Casting Will Ferrell's Prom Photo
So this bit of olde-timey goodness started floating around the Internet while I was sick a-bed... That such a photo should come out during a summer that sees both Ryan Reynolds and Emma Stone in starring roles is hardly accidental, …
Anatomy of a Press Photo: Contagion Poster
I haven't heard much about this new movie Contagion, but apparently, the disease has the power to transform Gwyneth Paltrow into Tilda Swinton. Weird.
Review: 30 Minutes or Less
Photo at left: McBride Fine. I will sit up in my sickbed just long enough to let y'all know about this here new movie that's coming out today. Just don't expect much more than a numbered list. I'm still puzzling …
A Closer Look at the Trailer for A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas
I've got a raging sinus infection, so I've got even less to offer than usual, but there is this.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngIMH6J43UI Anybody up for making "Punching the Pope" the new "Jumping the Shark"? No? How 'bout just making it the new …
Empire of Silver: Vistas Aplenty
My Empire of Silver capsule review should be up in a bit, but in the meantime, I'd like to take a moment to wonder why American filmmakers seem to have lost the art of the dramatic long shot. I think …
A Closer Look at the Trailer for One Day: The Many Faces of Anne Hathaway
It's quite a challenge for any makeup artist - depicting an actress over a twenty-year period, the way they do in One Day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLUWHW5NxwI What struck me was how many other actresses they managed to make Anne Hathaway remind me …
"How do you get to make a movie?"
That was the question my son asked me last night before I headed out to Empire of Silver. While I waited for the movie to start, a movie fun fact informed me that, at least in Michael Bay's case, you …
While We're At It...
Regal Entertainment Group is making a plea for relevance in the age of Netflix. "There are millions of stories to be told," reads the text on the big screen. "Stories of heroes and legends," etc., etc. But as the action …
A Complete List of the Movie Categories on AMC's "Where Movies Live" Ad Page
Action Adventure, Blockbuster, Bollywood, Chick Flick, Comedy, Cop Buddy Picture, Documentary, Dramedy, Fantasy, Horror, Remake, Rom Com, Superhero, Teen Angst, Thriller. Fascinating. Teen Angst gets its own category, as does Superhero, Remake, Chick Flick, and Cop Buddy Picture. The difference …
REJECTED — My Failed Entry for the 2011 San Diego 48-Hour Film Project Competition*
Apologies for the late blog-start today - I was recovering from my mad weekend of making my entry for the San Diego 48 Hour Film Project. The rule, as you may have surmised, is that the entire film has to …
Never Mind The Muppets, Here's Starship!
Seriously, fellas? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4YhbpuGdwQ Is this to be my generation's fate? To have the really crappy songs of its youth stuffed back down its throat without the merest dollop of irony to ease the passage? I mean, "We Built This City" …
Review: The Devil's Double
In 1987, an Iraqi army lieutenant named Latif Yahia was summoned to Saddam Hussein’s palace and ordered to serve as a body double for Saddam’s monstrous son Uday. What a great premise for a movie: an existential crisis – as …
Review: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Let me begin by saying that I cannot tell you my least favorite and favorite lines in Rise of the Planet of the Apes, because I don't want to spoil things for you. But I can tell you that the …
Kids Today
Now get off my lawn! Okay, so I guess it's understandable that the 10:35 a.m. show of Empire of Silver at Mission Valley AMC should have an unresolvable technical glitch - namely, that the subtitles at the bottom of the …
Ack! Catwoman!
So the filmblogging universe is dutifully trotting out this still of Anne Hathaway (?) as Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises. And while we here at Big Screen hate to seem catty (seewhatididthere), we are inclined to note that that …
Never mind the Killer Elite, here's the Scorpions!
Okay, just one more and I'll lay off the snark. But the full trailer for Killer Elite just came over the wire, and I'll be dipped if they don't use the Scorpions' "Rock You Like A Hurricane" as the musical …
Anatomy of a Press Photo: Evolution of Superman
Remember Christopher Reeve? Bright colors, spandex, Truth, Justice, and the American Way? Dude owned it. So then they tried the reboot, and apparently, they decided the bright red "S" was a little too...what's the word...comic-booky. "Too much like a superhero …
Anatomy of a Press Photo: Immortals Armor
Oh, yeah - badASS. Though I'm not quite sure why we're going the whole "nipples on the batsuit" route... And I know that this Henry Cavill dude is going to be playing Superman soon... ...but the cape thing is a …