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Pretty Packaging: The DRIVE Limited Edition Is Not Middle Of The Road
The United Kingdom-based distributor Second Sight is building quite a catalogue of excellent special editions. Their limited edition of Adam Wingard's The Guest turned heads with its extravagance and high pricing. Was that a film which warranted it? Even fans...
Review: OUR KIND OF TRAITOR, Slick Yet Simple Spycraft
Veteran screen adapter Hossein Amini (The Two Faces of January, Drive) teams up with famed author John le Carré for yet another big screen espionage thriller joint with Our Kind of Traitor. Le Carré, who serves as executive producer, brings...
Berlinale 2014 Review: THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY Proves Middlebrow Is Timeless
They've been making movies like The Two Faces of January since before they made movies. A graying man, his blonde haired bride, and the younger cad who comes between them. Crime and chase amidst sun dappled vistas. Cops and con...
Blu-ray Review: The Occasionally Beautiful, Utterly Empty SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN
The instinct behind Snow White and the Huntsman is admirable, even if the execution ultimately falls flat: push the fairy tale into the realm of dark fantasy with a hint of political intrigue, with evil represented through the physical and...
Contest: Win a SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN Blu-ray Prize Pack
This week, the Rupert Sanders-directed Snow White and the Huntsman makes its way to DVD and Blu-ray from Universal Pictures Home Video. And we've got two copies of the high def version of the reimagined fairy tale to to give...
Hollywood Grind: SNOW WHITE and the Five Writers
How many writers does it take to write a movie, anyway? The script for Snow White and the Huntsman originated with Evan Daugherty, who receives the sole "Story By" credit. Daughterty began working on the script as a film school...
Review: SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN is Dwarfed By Its Messy Ending
It's a long standing tradition that Hollywood brings us certain films in pairs. Antz came out around the time of Bug's Life, Volcano and Dante's Peak within weeks of one another, Armageddon and Deep Impact - the list goes on.2012...
Chris Hemsworth Glowers Through New SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN Clip
Coming to theaters June 1st is the second of the year's Snow White themed films, this one being Rupert Sanders' dark reimagining of the fairy tale, Snow White And The Huntsman.Snow White is the only person in the land fairer...
The SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN Trailer Stumbles Out Of The Gate
Director Rupert Sanders' Snow White And The Huntsman has just released its first trailer, one that immediately struggles to achieve the necessary suspension of disbelief because the entire story is based on the idea that Kristen Stewart is more attractive...
Nick Frost Joins The SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN Dwarves
Nick Frost has been rising steadily in stature since first appearing as Simon Pegg's sideman in Spaced, winning critical praise over a range of genres in recent years. And now he's joining a big cast on the big screen.Frost has...
McShane, Izzard, Hoskins, Jones, Marsan And Graham Are Dwarves In SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN
I cannot even begin to understand how there can be two competing, big budget, studio level, live action and not really for children Snow White projects in the works. Bluntly, I don't even understand why they're making one of these...