It’s been nine years since Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller released the film adaptation of Miller’s Sin City graphic novels. While this sequel was announced soon after the first film in 2005, it ended up taking longer than expected to go into production. Well, the wait is finally over and the trailer for Sin City: […]
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Yesterday I was saddened to hear the news that actor and director Harold Ramis passed away at the age of 69. As an actor, Ramis was best known for playing the ultra-scientific Egon Spengler in the Ghostbusters films, which he also co-wrote with Dan Aykroyd. He was also one of the original cast members of
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With the Marvel Cinematic Universe firmly established, the company is now free to make some gambits and release some film adaptations of lesser known Marvel properties. The first of these films will be the sci-fi adventure Guardians of the Galaxy, which is being directed by James Gunn (Slither, Super). One thing that is immediately apparent
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Sad news is being reported today as the Wall Street Journal broke the story that Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead today in his New York City apartment. The cause of death is currently unknown, though the New York Post is reporting that it was from an apparent drug overdose. Hoffman was 46
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Every year, I weep a little bit more for the original Paranormal Activity, which I first saw and loved just over four years ago. The film was a very effective independent horror film, of which its legacy is being bogged down by yearly sequels. While Paranormal Activity 5 isn’t scheduled to be released for a
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Alexander Payne (Sideways, The Descendants) returns with the stark black and white drama Nebraska, which won star Bruce Dern the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival. I’m certain this film is going to result in comparisons to Payne’s 2002 film About Schmidt, since they both focus on curmudgeonly old men (and both feature
Tonight as part of their monthly CineMacabre Movie Nights, Rue Morgue and eOne Entertainment will be hosting the official Toronto premiere of the film Haunter, which is the latest from director Vincenzo Natalli (Cube, Splice). The film focuses on a teenage ghost (Abigail Breslin), who tries to save another girl from a murderous madman (Stephen
It’s been nine years since Edgar Wright directed, his first film collaboration with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, Shaun of the Dead in 2004, with Hot Fuzz following in 2007. Now it is time for so-called “Cornetto Trilogy” to conclude with The World’s End, featuring a pub crawl of apocalyptic proportions. While Shaun of the
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It is definitely a sad day for cinephiles as, one of the all-time great film critics, Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times has passed away at the age of 70. There has pretty much never been a period in my lifetime when Robert Ebert (and his late television co-host Gene Siskel of the Chicago
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The trailer has arrived for Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight. The film reunites us with Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) nearly two decades after they first met on that train to Vienna. The film follows them on vacation in Greece and how their relationship is different now that they have hit middle age. When
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