Tag: emilyblunt
IF Review: John Krasinski's Muddled, Moving Fantasy-Drama
Ryan Reynolds stars in writer/director John Krasinski's latest film.
THE FALL GUY Review: A Rousing Crowd Pleaser
David Leitch has had ups and downs since co-directing John Wick a decade ago. While he's always been an incredibly talented action filmmaker, courtesy of his background as a stunt performer and coordinator, his apparent passion for mixing action and...
SXSW 2024: 3 BODY PROBLEM, THE FALL GUY, and Midnighters
The 31st edition of the 2024 SXSW Film & TV Festival has announced that 3 Body Problem, the new series from David Benioff and D. B. Weiss Game of Thrones and Emmy Award nominee Alexander Woo, will be the Opening...
OPPENHEIMER Review: Layered, Nuanced Character Study Led by a Brilliant Cillian Murphy
To say, “It’s J. Robert Oppenheimer's world and we just live in it,” might sound facile, glib, or even the punchline to an unfunny, bewildering joke, but it’s as true today as it was on July 16, 1945, the day...
Review: JUNGLE CRUISE, Derivative Story Elevated By Charismatic Leads
Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt star in an action adventure, based on a Disney theme-park attraction, and directed by Jaume Collet-Serra.
Review: A QUIET PLACE PART II, More of the Same and Different Too
Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds and Cillian Murphy star in a horror-thriller, written and directed by John Krasinski.
A QUIET PLACE PART II Trailer: I Said, Shut Up!
Hollywood horror sometimes strikes gold, as with John Krasinski's A Quiet Place (2018), which maximized its concept and featured a sterling star performance by Emily Blunt. Blunt is back in the sequel, A Quiet Place Part II and the first...
Review: A QUIET PLACE, ... ! ... ? ... ?! ... ! .... !! ..... !!! ... !!!!!
Imagine a world that has been silenced by mysterious creatures. The deadly threat inherent in the premise is riveted home in an opening sequence that immediately sets the neat and efficient A Quiet Place apart from other neat and efficient...
All The Big Game Spots in One Place! SOLO, A QUIET PLACE, JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM And More
[Updated 2/5/18: The full teaser trailer for Solo: A Star Wars Story has been added below.] The game of games. The opportunity for history to be made tonight. Or will it go to the underdogs? We will know in a...
The Many Faces Of Emily Blunt
This week sees the premiere of Tate Taylor's The Girl on the Train, which our Jim Tudor kindly called "a manipulative wreck". However, it stars Emily Blunt, and that immediately decided who to choose for this week's quiz. For Emily...
Review: THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN, A Manipulative Wreck
Evoking its title, the new film adaptation of the popular Paula Hawkins novel The Girl on the Train wants to be perceived as running smoothly on its tracks through a variety of settings and scenarios. Sometimes, it travels a familiar...
Destroy All Monsters: SICARIO And The Heart Of Darkness
Spoiler warning for Sicario. I admire a genre movie that extracts its generic components so completely that one nearly forgets what one is watching until it sneaks back around and kicks us in the ass. One such film is Sicario,...
Review: SICARIO, A Marvelous, Stunning Hybrid
In white writing on a black screen, we're taught that Sicario was the name given to Hebrew Zealots (the name means "dagger men") who fought to expel the Romans in Judea. Now the name is used in Mexico to refer...
Hey, NYC! Wanna See SICARIO Early And For Free?
With Denis Villeneuve at the helm I betchya that answer is YES. The Quebecois director has been raking up a complex and eclectic filmography over the years, from Prisoners to Enemy, and his Cannes premiering Emily Blunt starring cartel thriller...
In New SICARIO Clip, Tension Rises At The Border
Tensions are rising all over the world. Europe is facing major challenges in dealing with migrants fleeing horrible situations. Here in the U.S., politicians are stirring the pot on the immigration issue. And in a new clip from Sicario, an...
SICARIO: Watch The Thrilling Trailer For Denis Villeneuve's Crime Epic
Coming off of great buzz at Cannes, Denis Villeneuve's Sicario arrives on U.S. shores September 18. Today the trailer dropped and it's a doozy.Starring Emily Blunt as an FBI agent who gets thrust into the Mexican Cartel drug war, the...
Joshua Chaplinsky's Favorite Films of 2014
It's that time of year again. When everyone and their mother's nephew's cousin foists their unenlightened opinions on the equally unenlightened masses. Consume, regurgitate, repeat. Why do we do it? You'd be better off asking Why is the sky purple?--because...
Review: INTO THE WOODS Ventures Into A Musically Dark Thicket
"Beware the tale you tell Children will listen" Just what is Disney up to with Into the Woods? Widely cited as "nobody's favorite Sondheim", this Tim Burton-esque adaptation of the 1987 Broadway stage musical is sing-songy, yes, but it's also intensely...
The Many Faces Of Tom Cruise
The subject of this week's quiz is Tom Cruise. Born on the third of July, Oscar-nominated for Born on the Fourth of July, he turned 52 this week. That doesn't stop him from appearing in action movies, though: he is...
AnarchyVision: Jason Gorber Talks EDGE OF TOMORROW And CHEF
While it's under-performing at the box office, the latest whiz-bang sci-fi action romp starring Tom Cruise, Edge of Tomorrow, is a hell of a lot of fun.Also checked out the very tasty Chef by writer/producer/director/star Jon Favreau, the pinnacle of...
