Up-and-coming auteur Rian Johnson recently tweeted, “The filmmaking in Hanna was pretty humbling.” That’s high praise coming from the man behind the indie caper sensation “Brick” and the quirky con flick “The Brothers Bloom.” But high praise is old hat for “Hanna” director Joe Wright who’s used to being gushed over by cinephiles. The minutes-long [...]
It was announced today at the New York Comic-Con, (via Firstshowing.net) that The Chemical Brothers, the pioneering British big beat electronica duo, will score the entirety of Joe Wright’s “Hanna.” Starring Saoirse Ronan (“Atonement,” “The Lovely Bones”) and Eric Bana (“Star Trek,” “Munich”), “Hanna” centers on a 14-year-old Eastern European girl (Ronan) raised by her [...]
Edward Norton replaced Eric Bana and now indie favorite Mark Ruffalo will replace Norton as the iconic green monster, The Hulk, in the upcoming “The Avengers” film. Deadline reports that Ruffalo’s agency, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, has just finalized a deal with Marvel for the prolific star to take on the high profile greenie in Marvel’s [...]
Spanning 20 years and 2 continents, Mary and Max tells of a pen-pal relationship between two very different people: Mary Dinkle (Collette), a chubby, lonely 8-year-old living in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia; and Max Horovitz (Hoffman), a severely obese, 44-year-old Jewish man with Asperger’s Syndrome living in the chaos of New York City. Director: [...]
A sprawling, childish, overlong, unfocused, self-indulgent mess, “Funny People, ” is director Judd Apatow’s third effort at the helm. Funny thing is, in this particular case I’m not so sure all of those are bad things. Having ascended the ranks like a rocket without plans for reentry, comedian George Simmons (Adam Sandler), once a respected [...]
“Star Trek: It’s Worth Watching Again,” would have been an apt title for the J.J. Abrams-guided reboot of the nearly 50-year-old science-fiction staple of American pop-culture. Luckily, we’ve been spared the extra punctuation, qualifiers, and subtitles plaguing modern Hollywood’s increasingly originality-challenged productions. But “Star Trek” has even more going for it than a refreshingly simple [...]
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