AMC’s The Walking Dead premiere ratings were gigantic: The 90-minute Halloween night debut delivered 5.3 million viewers and a 3.3 adults 18-49 rating. These numbers are well above the bar set by Mad Men and Breaking Bad. That’s the largest demo audience for any series premiere on any cable network this year. It’s also the …
According to /film, Production Weekly has said via tweet that the outlet hears Sony “is planning to put Ivan Reitman‘s Ghostbusters 3 into production in May 2011.” Rumours have been circulating around the film for two years now, so take the news with a grain of salt. According to all the internet rumours, the script …
Some more Captain America photos have arrived on the internet and in high definition. We already posted a story with the first set which you can find here. Here are three new pictures. Enjoy! Synopsis: The year is 1942, and Steve Rogers is a scrawny lad who desperately wants to fight Nazis for his country …
Cult Cinema:- Article #11 Cult of the Week: Volume 11 Art imitates life. Until art gets so thoroughly processed by focus groups and marketing departments that it wins an MTV Movie Award. Then, art turns into product, which is imitated by the single-brain-celled form of life that spends a small fortune of its parents’ money …
Abel Director: Diego Luna Written by Diego Luna & Augusto Mendoza Mexico, 2010 Director Diego Luna’s beguiling comedy drama about a strange Mexican boy throws up many more questions than answers. For a while it appears that young Abel might be both catatonic and possessed of telekinetic powers – such is the effect of his …
In a modern age of sequels green-lit before the first movie is even out of post-production, the ending would be an obvious, slightly charming, slightly groan-worthy sequel hook, but when they first wrote the screenplay, neither Zemeckis nor Gale had any such notion in mind. That is the most important fact to keep in mind …
“Ernest Scared Stupid is a great mix of wholesome family fun and Halloween scares.” Ernest Scared Stupid Director: John Cherry Writer: Charles Gale, Coke Sams Starring: Jim Varney, Earth Kitt, Austin Nagler 1991 United States | PG | 91 mins Halloween is as much a spooky holiday for kids as it is for adults. The …
“Trick ‘r Treat is a fantastically frightful and fun horror anthology that is as humorous as it is dark.” Trick ‘r Treat Director: Michael Dougherty Writer: Michael Dougherty Starring: Dylan Baker, Anna Paquin, Brian Cox 2007 United States | R | 82 mins It’s the end of the lighter part of the year and the …
Watching Secretariat fighting for box office air against much more muscular earners like comic actioner Red ($43.5 million after two weeks), the David Fincher/Aaron Sorkin rendering of the birth of Facebook in The Social Network ($72 million in four weeks), Ben Affleck’s gutsy crime thriller The Town ($84.7million in six weeks), and box office steamrollers …
“An honest and intriguing look into the evolution of Canada’s greatest rock band.” Directed by Sam Dunn, Scot McFadyen 2010, Canada Generally, people either love Rush or just don’t get them, but no one can dispute the band’s integrity, commitment to craft and artistic evolution. Such is the picture painted by directors Scot McFadyen and …
127 Hours Directed by Danny Boyle Starring James Franco, Treat Williams Tense? Anxious? Claustrophobic? Whatever you do, don’t think a trip to the cinema will alleviate these ailments as the last few weeks has seen a morbid fixation on a lingering demise, whether it be death by suffocation (Buried), death by refrigeration (Frozen), or in …
“SAW 3D could have been a great ending to a decent franchise, but instead traps the series with sloppy writing, acting, and lack of focus.” SAW 3D (aka SAW VII) Director: Kevin Greutert Writers: Patrick Melton, Marcus Dunstan Starring: Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Cary Elwes 2010 United States | R | 90 mins Freddy. Jason. Michael. …
#8 Piranha 3d Directed by Alexander Aja There is nothing particularly funny or poetic about the carnage in Piranha 3D. Even “disturbing” seems a bit too strong a word to describe the excessive, but still somehow palatably cartoonish bloodshed on display – can a film about pre-historic. bloodthirsty piranha really be disturbing? Tonally, this film …
#1 – Let Me In Directed by Matt Reeves In many ways very similar to the original Swedish film, Matt Reeves’ Let Me In differentiates itself through its invigorating visual style, and by contextualizing the narrative through the troubled moral atmosphere of Reaganite America. The comments that this film is “too much” like Alfredson’s film …
#3 -We Are What We Are Directed by Jorge Michel Grau The completed version of Jorge Michel Grau’s We Are What We Are had its North American premiere at the Fantasia Film Festival and left audiences very content on their way out. In the same way Let The Right One In reinvented the vampire brand …
I was lucky enough to catch the World Premiere of both [Rec]2 and The Loved Ones in 2009 at the Toronto International Film Festival. And yes they did indeed make my last year. But unless you were at the TIFF screening, you wouldn’t have ever had a chance to catch either one of these gems. …
#6- The Revenant Directed by D. Kerry Prior The night after his funeral, Bart, a soldier killed in Iraq, gets up out of his grave and seeks help from his best friend Joey. No explanation or higher education will make sense of his return, and Bart wouldn’t care in any case. Now it’s all about …
Filmmakers have continued to push boundaries and find new innovative ways to elicit the emotions of fear, disgust and horror from viewers. Since Alfred Hitchcock directors strived to provoke viewer’s nightmares, hidden fears, revulsions and terror of the unknown. Although a good deal of it is about the supernatural, others have focussed more on a …
“Paranormal Activity 2 is nothing but dull jump scares targeted at teeny-boppers who don’t have the attention span to understand plot or characters.” Paranormal Activity 2 Director: Tod Williams Writers: Michael R. Perry, Christopher Landon, Tom Pabst Starring: Brian Boland, Sprague Grayden, Katie Featherston 2010 United States | R | 91 mins Horror used to …
————– Another Year Directed by Mike Leigh Tom (Jim Broadbent) and Gerri (Ruth Sheen) are happy together. Yes, their views may occasionally diverge somewhat, but at well past middle age they stay active, are engaged by their respective professions, and are genuinely comforted by each other’s continued company, as well as that of their son …
Some new photos for the upcoming Captain America: The First Avenger movie have appeared online and they have me pretty excited. The first couple of photos that we published a month ago didn’t look too good, but the new set looks great showcasing Captain America in various costumes and Hugo Weaving as the early incarnation …
———– Submarino Directed by Thomas Vinterberg Proving that there’s a very fine line between genuine probing into human failings and all-out misery porn, Thomas Vinterberg’s (Dear Wendy, The Celebration) latest balances itself precariously between the two throughout its runtime, oscillating between plot elements that seem grounded in its characters’ emotional realities and those that are …
——— Cell 211 Directed by Daniel Monzón Call it reverse Hollywood-itis. Earlier this year, Fatih Akin’s Soul Kitchen exhibited the comic sensibility of any number of widely-lambasted American studio comedies and gave it a mild injection of regional (in its case, Turkish and German) flavor, to puzzlingly glowing notices. This time around, Spaniard Daniel Monzón’s …