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Los Cabos 2022 Review: THE WHALE, One of Darren Aronofsky's Most Empathetic Films
Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale was the opening film of the eleventh edition of the Los Cabos International Film Festival, which took place from November 9 to 13. Since its world premiere at the latest edition of the Venice Film Festival,...
10+ Years Later: CODE 46 Showed Us That We Are All Replicants
With a new Blade Runner film on the way later this year, it seems an appropriate time to revisit a certain overlooked 2003 film that is as close to a prequel to Ridley Scott's seminal clone-noir as there ever was....
FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM Trailer Debut: Creatures Run Amok In New York
In other franchise news, the first trailer for Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them debuted today. David Yeats, who directed the last four of the Harry Potter films, is back in the main chair, and he is joined in...
Fantasia 2014 Review: THE HARVEST, A Coming Of Age Fable Of Wicked Proportions
After a very lengthy hiatus into directing for TV, ranging from single episodes of John From Cincinnati to Masters of Horror, John McNaughton (Henry: Portrait of A Serial Killer) is back with his first feature film since the turn of the...
New To Netflix: Ken Burns, Nuclear Power, Gina Carano and ROLLING THUNDER
This week's entry of New To Netflix has documentaries and a healthy does of violence, both of which come together for the Oscar nominated feature, The Act of Killing. In many markets there is a compelling re-evaluation of nuclear power...
TTTT: An American Film Geek's Bottom 10 for 2012
Many a film critic, including at times even the most positive and altruistic of us, take a certain mean delight in unleashing our master lists of the year's biggest stinkers. The temptation to avenge what may be an assault on...
Contest: Win a JOHN CARTER Blu-ray Prize Pack
Director Andrew Stanton's John Carter is a fun action adventure movie that really should have gotten more love than it did during it's theatrical release. Well, if you're one of those people who really dug the movie or even if...
Blu-ray Review: JOHN CARTER Is a Superman of Mars
Amidst all of the hand-wringing about the lackluster to poor theatrical performance of Andrew Stanton's John Carter as well as the doom and gloom about the future prospects of its lead Taylor Kitsch, it seems like some people miss the...
JOHN CARTER: A Tharking Bore
Imagine 1980's "Flash Gordon" movie without the Queen soundtrack but the same storyline. Replace all the intentional cornball camp and eye-popping artifice with a serious tone and today's more-real-than-real visual effects. Swap out Max von Sydow's bald, scenery-chewing Ming...
Review: JOHN CARTER
John Carter is an intriguing throwback, a fun little ride and a fantastic (if early) kick-off to the 2012 big-budget blockbuster season. Drawing on an initial source that's more than a century old, its narrative tropes have been mined for...
Watch Ten Earthbound Minutes Of JOHN CARTER
Before ending up on Mars, John Carter spent a good amount of time on Earth. His whole life, in fact, and that is exactly where Andrew Stanton's film begins. And so, after conducting an ad campaign focused purely on the...
Final Trailer For Disney's JOHN CARTER Plays Up The Action
With the theatrical release of Andrew Stanton's John Carter just around the corner Disney have dropped the final trailer for the film, one that plays up the action elements.From Academy Award®--winning filmmaker Andrew Stanton comes "John Carter"--a sweeping action-adventure set...
Two New Clips From Disney's JOHN CARTER!
Two new clips to share with you from Disney's John Carter; their slick adaptation of the material found in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom series of novels. The first clip is actually a clip from the film featuring a jump that would...
Second Trailer For Andrew Stanton's JOHN CARTER
There's no doubt about it. Disney is botching the poster campaign for Andrew Stanton's upcoming scifi adventure John Carter something fierce. It's shocking, in fact, just how incredibly off the mark the normally marketing savvy giant is with this one.There's...
Impressive First Trailer For Andrew Stanton's JOHN CARTER
Movies like Andrew Stanton's upcoming John Carter make me glad that I'm a parent. The Boy, you see, is ten right now and will be eleven when this releases and I reckon that's about the perfect age. This may very...
