“The Imitation Game” is one of those Awards Season films every studio dreams of having on their “For Your Consideration” list. The true-life drama captured the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival and it’s destined to be a favorite among voters over the next few months, as is star Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays […]
British actor Eddie Redmayne’s breakout performance was opposite Michelle Williams in 2011’s underappreciated biopic “My Week with Marilyn”. One year later, he joined the stellar ensemble of Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway, Russell Crowe and Amanda Seyfried for the big screen adaptation of the Broadway musical sensation “Les Miserables”. Now, Redmayne finally takes center stage, giving […]
“The Hunger Games” movie franchise, based on Suzanne Collins’ wildly successful book series, reached greater heights with last year’s second installment, “Catching Fire”. The sequel proved to be stronger, both in quality and at the box office, than the original film. Unfortunately, “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1”, the first half of the epic […]
1994’s “Dumb and Dumber” is considered by some to be a cult comedy classic, highlighted by one of the funniest performances of Jim Carrey’s career. 20 years later, Carrey (who’s hasn’t had much success with anything in a while) and Jeff Daniels (who’s earned an Emmy for his current work on HBO’s “The Newsroom”) reunite […]
Space is no longer simply the Final Frontier. Director Christopher Nolan follows-up his “Dark Knight” trilogy and the critically acclaimed but highly overrated “Inception” with a sci-fi adventure that goes well beyond the phrase “To Infinity and Beyond”. In “Interstellar”, Michael Caine (a Nolan staple) plays the head honcho at NASA. He repeatedly quotes lines […]
Comedy is Bill Murray’s forte. From “Caddyshack” to “Ghostbusters”, “Groundhog Day” to “Garfield”, Murray has made us laugh for decades. In 2003, he took a dramatic turn in “Lost in Translation”, which earned him an Oscar nomination. Now, as a cranky old man in “St. Vincent” – his most buzzed-about role in over a decade […]
Chances are you’ve heard the title “One Chance” in movie news stories often over the past year or so. The musical comedy based on the true story of wannabe opera singer Paul Potts, who eventually won Simon Cowell’s “Britain’s Got Talent” TV competition show, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2013 and was […]
At every county fair there’s a challenging, exciting and exhausting corn maze. It’s filled with twists and turns, giving those who dare to enter the feeling that there’s no way out. “The Maze Runner” presents a lot of questions early on. And after going in circles for nearly two hours, the only way I hoped […]
“If I Stay” is the “End of Summer of 2014 Tween/Teen Romantic Tearjerker”. Based on the popular 2009 novel by Gayle Forman, Chloe Grace Moretz (“Kick-Ass”) stars as 17-year-old Mia. She lives with her parents and younger brother Teddy in Portland, Oregon. Mia’s love of music was inherited from her mom and dad, but they […]
At one point in “The Giver”, Meryl Streep tells fellow Oscar winner Jeff Bridges: “When people have the freedom to choose – they choose wrong.” This seems to apply perfectly to the decision that Bob & Harvey Weinstein made to finance this big-screen adaptation of one of the most popular tween books of the last […]