I remember watching the first six episodes of “Parks and Recreation” in 2009 not knowing two things: 1) If the show was going to last beyond these six episodes. And 2) That Chris Pratt would soon become an action movie superstar. Pratt’s breakthrough 2014 began as the voice of Emmett in blockbuster “The LEGO Movie”. […]
Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt star in a high-stakes adventure about two passengers, Aurora and Jim, onboard a spaceship transporting them to a new life on another planet. The trip takes a deadly turn when their hibernation pods mysteriously wake them 90 years before they reach their destination. As they try to unravel the mystery […]
“Passengers” could have been one of the movie events of the year. Director Morten Tyldum follows-up his inspiring, “The Imitation Game” with two of the industry’s biggest stars – Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt – in a sci-fi action/thriller that’s essentially “Titanic in Space”. But, much like that doomed vessel, nearly everything that could go […]
In 1993, four little words, an iconic John Williams score and some mind-blowing visuals changed cinema forever, as the late Richard Attenborough welcomed us to Jurassic Park. Now, 22 years later, original director Steven Spielberg hands the reigns of the “dinos on the loose” franchise over to Colin Trevorrow for “Jurassic World”, which covers similar […]
2014 is the year that Marvel movies have gone where the studio has never gone before. “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”, the highest-grossing film of ’14 to date, perfectly mixed the action and political thriller genres. And now with “Guardians of the Galaxy”, one of Marvel’s best ever, director James Gunn has created an outer […]