Tag: geoffreyrush

The 1999 remake of William Castle’s (1959) House on Haunted Hill by William Malone was a very strange film, and not one I’d seen in a long time, possibly since its video store days. Going back, its quite “Nineties,” down...

Simon Stone's The Daughter is an interesting debut drama about a small community united by a somewhat brooding lumber mill owner played by Geoffrey Rush. The real focus of the film falls on two families both united by this slowly liquidating timber...

More video game than movie, the primary positive takeaway from the new digitally-driven mythology-based Gods of Egypt would have to be, as the uneducated gamers often refer to cinematic visual effects, “good graphics.” This is irritating sand in the eye...

With its rich photography, lush score, and feel-good script with a bite, it's easy to dismiss The Book Thief as an old-fashioned throwback film. So easy, in fact, that that's what I'm about to do.Based on a much-loved, much book-clubbed...

It happens to every film franchise eventually -- even our new favorites -- and we, the hardcore movie-addicts must simply chalk it up to a hazard of this particular hobby, shrug our shoulders, and move on. Here's how it works:...

"People want to see Johnny Depp - not a bunch of crap!" That's a quote from a friend during a recent visit, in which we somehow ended up discussing the often-quirky filmography of Johnny Depp. When the mythology-heavy and...

They extended a perfectly decent trilogy for this?Yeah, I know I'm among the few who enjoyed the third Pirates movie.  It was too long, had too many characters to keep track of, and lost a bit of the fun of...

Other than Ian McShane as Blackbeard - an inspired bit of casting - I fail to see anything in the Super Bowl trailer for Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides that would entice me to go out and see...

Unless I heard wrong, I do believe that in this new promo video for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Johnny Depp wraps things up by offering viewers a Bloody Mary 'on the Mouse', in which case I'd like...

I have complete faith in Rob Marshall's ability to destroy the Disney cash cow that is the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise but I've gotta say: This is truly inspired casting. Ian McShane as Blackbeard. The only question is why...