As a member of the Online Film Critics Society it is my duty and pleasure to vote in the OFCS Awards to honor the greatest achievements in the movies. This year’s winners probably won’t surprise anyone, and all are deserving of such high recognition. However, I think the only winner I voted for was Hailee Steinfeld for [...]
Try as they might, the directors of the third and fourth “Terminator” films can’t seem to kill the fan-favorite sci-fi/horror franchise. Variety reports that Pacificor LLC, which acquired the franchise rights at auction last week, is receiving a great deal of interest from “numerous” Hollywood producers, financiers, studios and agents. Pacificor, a Santa Barbara-based hedge [...]
Acclaimed director, Terrence Malick, is set to begin production on his still untitled project, a romance starring Christian Bale, Javier Bardem, Rachel McAdams and Olga Kurylenko, this fall. No plot details have been revealed. Screendaily reports that Glen Basner and his FilmNation Entertainment will introduce potential buyers to the project at EFM. Nicolas Gonda, Sarah [...]
It’s no secret that we here at The Moving Arts weren’t big fans of McG’s take on the “Terminator” franchise with this year’s “Terminator Salvation.” In fact, in our review we called it “as desolate, joyless, and lifeless as the robot-ruled world it depicts.” Needless to say, we’re not too keen on seeing what the [...]
Michael Mann’s highly anticipated depression-era gangster flick, “Public Enemies” gets the TMA FilmCast treatment this week. Does Mann’s foray into the controversies of digital video pay off, or should he have stuck to film? Also, we take a look at Duncan Jones’ debut feature starring Sam Rockwell, “Moon.” Is Jones, aka Zowie Bowie, a promising [...]
This weekend’s box office was full of surprises yet again as Todd Phillips’ sleeper hit of the summer, “The Hangover,” starring Ed Helms, Bradley Cooper, and Zach Galifianakis retained its number one slot grossing an estimated $33.4M, narrowly beating Disney/Pixar’s “Up” which made $30.5M. Overseas, however, it was quite a different story. In an unprecedented, [...]
According to a report in Bleeding Cool, industry sources say Terminator 5, the sequel to “Terminator Salvation,” will be set in London in the year 2011, with a time-traveling John Connor to be played by Christian Bale. I don’t know about you, but for me, this is awful news. As long as McG and Christian [...]
What do you get when you mix the anti-vowel (McG) director of “Charlie’s Angels,” with the anti-character, anti-plot writers of “Catwoman?” “Terminator Salvation,” of course. How bad is it? You’ll have to listen to the dizzying, time-travel-laden podcast to find out! Also, “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian” is yet another example of [...]
The idea that the machines that enrich our lives today will eventually achieve sentience and take over the world is one of Hollywood’s most compelling tropes. “The Matrix,” “I, Robot,” and to a lesser extent, the Emilio Estevez flick, “Maximum Overdrive” all indulge in some variation of this robotic demise of mankind. But for all [...]
With “Terminator Salvation” hitting theaters soon, the future of the franchise has become something of a controversy. Variety reports that “With the Memorial Day weekend opening of “Terminator Salvation” looming, the future of the franchise has become intriguing. “Terminator” is the only franchise in which the distributors aren’t locked in for future films. MGM has [...]
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