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London 2024 Review: CONCLAVE, Papal Election Drama Is Consummate Adult Entertainment
Edward Berger's Oscar-bound follow-up to 'All Quiet On The Western Front' stars Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow and Isabella Rosellini.
CITADEL Review: Sleek, Slick, Slack
Richard Madden, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Lesley Manville and Stanley Tucci star in the action series from Joe and Anthony Russo, debuting on Prime Video.
Review: THE WITCHES Brews Up a Deep, Surprising Potion
Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci and Anne Hathaway star in a new version of Roald Dahl's fantasy for children, directed by Robert Zemeckis and now streaming on HBO Max.
Review: THE DAYTRIPPERS Steers Into the Criterion Collection
Ultra-low budget indie comedy/drama stars Hope Davis, Liev Schreiber and Parker Posey.
Review: FEUD: BETTE AND JOAN, A Tale of Melancholy
A cloud of melancholy hangs over the eight episodes that comprise Feud: Bette and Joan, a limited series that has completed its run on U.S. cable network FX. Nostalgia creeps in at the edges and occasionally threatens to overwhelm the...
Critical Distance: Michael Bay's Military Might Is Not So Strong After All
Sooner or later, Michael Bay will die. How will he be remembered? The filmmaker, soon to turn 51 years of age, will undoubtedly be honored as one of the greatest moneymakers in modern Hollywood history. The 12 movies he has...
Review: TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION Is The Film Michael Bay Was Born To Make
Like the film I'm talking about, this is going to take a bit to get through. My advice for both film and review: Sit back, and enjoy the ride.Transformers: Age of Extinction is, if one wants to rank such things, the...
Optimus Ride Grimlock! TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION Big Game Spot
Oh. Dear. Me.Have you ever had one of those days when you wake up and say to yourself, "Man. What I need today is to see a Transformer, riding on top of a Dinobot, wielding a sword". Well, consider your...
SOME VELVET MORNING: Watch An Exclusive Clip From Neil LaBute's Latest
Death At A Funeral director Neil LaBute won much love at Tribeca for his latest offering - the Stanley Tucci and Alice Eve starring Some Velvet Morning - and with the film hitting iTunes and VOD today prior to a...
Review: THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE Kicks It Up A Notch, Sets the Stage For A Grand Finale
Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy is a great read if you're into that sort of thing (reading), and it's shrewdly constructed. The first book, memorably adapted last year into a star-making vehicle for Jennifer Lawrence, focuses on the Hunger Games...
The Gender War Wages On in the Trailer for SOME VELVET MORNING
It has been a while Neil Labute stormed onto the arthouse film scene with the one-two punch of In The Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors in the mid 1990s. After those two exceptional films, it felt that...
Review: PERCY JACKSON: SEA OF MONSTERS Lacks Personality
Having missed 2010's Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief because of reasons, and then never catching up with it due to factors, I was at a disadvantage when it came time for Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters. But I was...
Review: JACK THE GIANT SLAYER Boldly Slashes Forth, Free Of Irony
Color me surprised, because if Jack the Giant Slayer isn't quite the best movie of the year so far, it's at least a damn good one.It's fair to say the movie had a stink about it. It was meant...
Holding Out for a Hero: Katniss and the New (Female) Role Model
It's not easy to be a hero. Just ask Katniss, the main character in the new film The Hunger Games, based on the book of the same name (the first in a trilogy by Suzanne Collins.) Living a life of...
Lionsgate Backpedals After HUNGER GAMES Charity Threat
Lionsgate is already backpedaling after a cease-and-desist letter they sent to a charitable organization became public on Thursday morning and immediately caused a stir. ThinkProgress broke the story and provided context on Imagine Better, the charity-minded group, and their partnership...
THE HUNGER GAMES Review
Hitting the scene as perhaps the world's current and foremost-presold film franchise, "The Hunger Games" has zero aspirations about succeeding as a stand-alone work. We're clearly looking at Film One of a Multi-Part Saga, and it has the non-resolution...
Review: THE HUNGER GAMES Fails to Satiate
I admit up front that I'm not the demographic that The Hunger Games aims to enthrall. While I grew up reading plenty of Tolkien, and plodded my way through the Harry Potter tomes, the Hunger Games series is too contemporary,...
Call Them Off: Never Mind THE HUNGER GAMES, Try These Instead
Let's be honest, okay? Ultimately, no-one who controls the money at Lionsgate approved The Hunger Games being made into a film (or films) because the original novels are great works of literature. They're doing it because they're a safe bet....
Lionsgate UK Cuts THE HUNGER GAMES For Lower Rating
UK audiences will be getting a slightly abbreviated version of Gary Ross' The Hunger Games when it arrives on local screens. Rated PG-13 in the USA the original cut was given a 15 rating by the BBFC, a rating that...
Watch A Sharp Shooting Clip From THE HUNGER GAMES
With some advance tracking numbers suggesting that The Hunger Games could be looking at a $100 million plus opening weekend a new clip has just arrived online showcasing one of the key moments that fans of the book series will...
