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It was just a little over a year ago that many of us were catching our breath after the close of HBO's first season of True Detective.And it wasn't too long after that when series creator Nic Pizzolatto dropped the...

Based on its bold title, you would be forgiven for thinking The Grand Seduction, a new comedy starring stalwart actor Brendan Gleeson, is an epic and complex drama comedy. It is in fact quite the opposite; a simmering small-town affair,...

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...

Samuel Fuller, who directed some of the best war movies ever made, and who was a combat veteran himself, famously stated, "To make a real war movie would be to fire at the audience from behind a screen." Peter Berg's...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...