For eight years, fans of “300” have been wondering how the film would be followed up — could the heroic sacrifice of King Leonidas and his brave 300 Spartans be outdone? With his sophomore effort, Noam Murro (“Smart People”) says, “yeah, kinda,” with his fairly praisable sequel 300: Rise of an Empire. Keeping with the…
Continuing the trend of adapting graphic novels to the screen Dimension Films brings thier first look of Sin City: A Dame To Kill For to viewers. The main players like innocent stripper Nancy Callahan (Jessica Alba), moral hulk Marv (Mickey Rourke), powerful prostitute Gail (Rosario Dawson) and upstanding cop John Hartigan (Bruce Willis) have returned…
We knew Dinobots were going to make an appearance in Paramount Pictures’ upcoming Transformers: Age of Extinction, so seeing one of them involved in a bot battle in the first trailer is no surprise. What is a bit of a surprise is the now adversarial relationship between the Autobots and humans. It’s gotten so bad…
Although nearly every critic panned “Planes” and chastised Walt Disney Studios for cloning “Cars” without the nod from Pixar, the movie did rather well at the box-office. The result of that success is Planes: Fire & Rescue for which a trailer has just come online. Setting aside his racing decals in this sequel, Dusty (voiced…
When you do a seemingly impossible task, you can expect more near impossible jobs to come your way (hence the reason I don’t exert myself). Having cleared a block of one ruthless drug kingpin in “The Raid Redemption,” officer Rama (Iko Uwais) is now asked to take them all down. He’ll go deep undercover to…
In December of 2009, I was fortunate to have a friend who liked me enough to invite me to the Paramount premiere Blu-ray party at her house for a small horror film I’d turned her onto (she had entered a contest and lo and behold, she won). That movie was “Paranormal Activity,” and it had…
Ron Burgundy is an idiot. You would know that even if you didn’t see 2004’s “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy” because in the push to get people to watch the sequel, Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, he demonstrated his idiocy in Durango commercials and every late night talk show that would have him. Reporter,…
