Heroic Hugh Jackman breathes the fire into X-Men Origins – Wolverine with a vengeance! This pulse-pounding action thriller sinks razor-sharp adamantium claws into the mysterious origins of Logan/Wolverine: his epically violent and romantic past, his complex relationship with Victor Creed/Sabretooth (Liev Schreiber), and the ominous Weapon X program that unleashes his primal fury. Along the way, [...]
A vampire named Saya, who is part of covert government agency that hunts and destroys demons in a post-WWII Japan, is inserted in a military school to discover which one of her classmates is a demon in disguise. Blood The Last Vampire – Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon meets Blade meets Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
“Inglourious Basterds,” Quentin Tarantino’s Nazi-era ode to the power of cinematic historical revision, won the Screen Actors Guild’s biggest award on Saturday night for movie ensemble acting — something of a surprise win for the film that featured an international cast of stars, first-timers and unknowns. In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group [...]
Brittany Murphy 1977 – 2009 Brittany Murphy died on the morning of December 20, after she went into full cardiac arrest and could not be revived. She was 32. A 911 call was made at 8:00 AM from a home in Los Angeles that is listed as belonging to her husband, Simon Monjack, the Los Angeles City [...]
“Knowing” is among the best science-fiction films I’ve seen — frightening, suspenseful, intelligent and, when it needs to be, rather awesome. The plot involves the most fundamental of all philosophical debates: Is the universe deterministic or random? Is everything in some way preordained or does it happen by chance? If that questions sounds too abstract, [...]
“A bear ate all of my clothes except for these condoms” Flamboyant Austrian fashionista Brüno takes his show to America. Sacha Baron Cohen made the world laugh until they were literally sick with Borat, as the crude, racist, mockumentary that made fun of real-life racists became a world wide phenomenon. Bruno injects the same formula into the [...]
Roland Emmerich has done it again. After destroying half the world in ‘Independence Day‘ and ‘Godzilla’, the destruction-meister has set his sights on all of Mother Earth in what is probably one of the most anticipated films of the year. ’2012′ cashes in on the Internet-stirred fears of an end-of-the-world prediction for Dec. 21, 2012, a [...]
Those prepared to hate the reboot of STAR TREK–whether they’re diehard fans or those in the anti-sci-fi camp–may be convinced to lower their shields after seeing this fun, action-filled film. Best known for creating mythology-driven series like LOST, J.J. Abrams has imbued his version with the elements that have made his shows such mind-bending entertainment [...]
GI Joe An elite military unit comprised of special operatives known as G.I. Joe, operating out of The Pit, takes on an evil organization led by a notorious arms dealer GI Joe is a noisy, frenetic, CGI-laden blockbuster that exists to advertise a range of paramilitary toys, but compared to its peers (ie, the dreaded Transformers [...]
An adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s story, where Max creates his own world–a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown Max as their ruler. Spike Jonze has fearlessly plunged ahead to weave whimsical movie magic to bring Maurice Sendak’s 1963 “Where the Wild Things Are” to the screen.The story, as millions of children [...]
