You can’t keep a good prehistoric piranha down for long. After clearing Lake Victoria of them in “Piranha 3D,” the pesky flesh eaters have migrated to fun-in-the-sun summer destination: The Big Wet Water Park, in Piranha 3DD. The latest red-band trailer released today by Dimension Films makes it abundantly clear why the extra “D” is…
Headhunters (directed by Morten Tyldum) is a crime thriller based on Jo Nesbo’s 2008 best seller of the same name and produced by the people that brought us the movie adaption’s of the Stieg Larsson trilogy. Don’t let that fact fool you into expecting more of “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” however, as Headhunters…
Don’t ask me why the upcoming alien invasion movie is titled Battleship after the mega-popular Hasbro board game; as best as I can tell, other than the fact the US Navy and its arsenal (carriers, destroyers and, yes, battleships) are in play, the movie has nothing to do with the game (I’d choke if the…
Releasing a mindless war movie under the precedent that it’s “like no other in Hollywood’s history” was not the right way to convey reverence for our troops. While Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh’s Act of Valor shows respect for the men and women in uniform overseas, it ignores the complexities of their situation. Once intended…
I’m not entirely sure why the ‘Redemption’ was added to the title of The Raid to make The Raid: Redemption but it doesn’t shy me away from wanting to see it. Picked up by Sony Pictures Classics, this domestic trailer actually scales back some of the sick action seen in the international red-band trailer, Americanizing…
In Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Johnny Blaze (Nicolas Cage) often speeds down roadways like a bat out of hell. However, in this case, the idiom should be taken literally. Following a pact with Satan, this once renowned stunt motorcyclist becomes tormented by a demonic entity which, on a mission to punish and consume the…
A second trailer for Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s Intruders has been released by Millennium Entertainment and it’s more jarring than the first that was released in May of 2011. This one somehow links a young girl and a young boy from two separate families with a ghoulish figure. What it wants and why it has locked…
