“Titanic” was the biggest movie of all-time (with $600M) from 1998-2010 before James Cameron’s next movie – the overrated “Avatar” – took over. “Titanic” is the top movie to stay consecutively at the #1 spot at the box office (15 weeks from Dec. 19, 1997 to Mar. 29, 1998). It won 11 Oscars (tying the […]
2010’s “Clash of the Titans” (the remake of the 1981 cult favorite) was one of the worst films of that, or any year: lame story, awful dialogue and cheap special effects, including an incredibly bad 3D post-conversion. Not much differs between that film and this totally unnecessary sequel, except for Sam Worthington’s hairdo. “Wrath of […]
The “Harry Potter” movie series has come to a close and the “Twilight” film finale is this November. So inevitably Hollywood needed a new blockbuster franchise based on a popular book series to latch on to. Enter “The Hunger Games” – part one of a three-book series aimed at a similar audience. This first film […]
One of the TV commercials that was used when “John Carter” was released in theaters back in February claimed that before there was “Star Wars” and “Avatar” there was John Carter. And that’s very true. The character was the creation of famed writer Edgar Rice Burroughs back in 1912. But the ad campaign doesn’t go […]
“Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” deals with a very difficult subject: the attacks of 9/11. But this film is much more than that. It’s also a story about journeys and taking risks, dealing with grief and moving forward. 14 year-old Thomas Horn was chosen to play young Oskar Schell, the main character of the story, […]
From the title you might think “The Iron Lady” is the story of the wife of “Iron Man”. And while Meryl Streep could probably pull-off that role too, here she stars as Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first female Prime Minister. Right from the first time Streep is on screen it’s hard to recognize her because SHE […]
Normally, if a studio is unhappy or not confident in a movie, they’ll bury it by releasing it in either January or August. Warner Bros. released “Joyful Noise” this past January as one of the first new films of 2012, and now it’s already out on Blu-ray/DVD. And while it does have some problems, “Joyful […]
The build-up to director Steven Spielberg’s “War Horse” was huge when the film was released late last year, because of the popular novel it’s based on and the Tony Award-winning play. And while this version does provide a nice story and engaging characters, “War Horse” goes down a familiar path and therefore fails to be […]
Brad Bird is best known for directing critically acclaimed animated movies, such as “The Iron Giant” and Disney/Pixar’s “The Incredibles” and “Ratatouille” (both which won him Oscars). He ventures into live-action for the first time with “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol”, the fourth installment of the series that began 15 years ago. And much like […]
“The Artist”, as you likely know by now, is a black and white, mostly silent film that originally got a lot of attention, some of it because it’s a black and white, mostly silent film. Then it went on to win numerous awards, including the Oscar for Best Picture -deservingly so. “The Artist” proves a […]