Breaking Dawn, Breaking in Two?

$481 million in the hole for New Moon and Summit wants more.  Now it seems they are thinking about breaking the final film into two parts to let the story breathe and include everything possible in the final chapter of The Twilight Saga.  Though, first they are going to wait and see what the third […]

Iron Man 2 Teaser Poster

Nothing much else to say, see you in line May 7th:

Shrek 4 Details and First Images

USAToday has an exclusive first look at a couple of screen shots and a trio of new casting details for the fourth, and final?, Shrek film, Shrek Forever After.  Here are the new details: “Comedians Kathy Griffin and Kristin Schaal (Flight of the Conchords) are witches who hunt ogres. On the side of good is an […]

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Wes Anderson returns to the screen with a film that fits into his little world only this time with a bunch of talking animals from the wonderful fable by Roald Dahl. Mr. Fox was always a daring individual, and stole live stock for a living before he met Mrs. Fox and was planning on having […]

The Road

John Hillcoat’s adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s post apocalyptic The Road is executed extremely well, but the lack of great ability in one of the films leads holds it back from being truly magnificent. Viggo Mortensen is not the lead in question and turns in another marvelous performance to add to his resume of superb work […]

Peter Jackson Updates Hobbit and Tintin

Jackson dropped some tidbits at the premiere of The Lovely Bones for a couple of his next big movies, here is a glimpse: “He stressed that there would be continuity between his films and Del Toro’s, despite the latter being better known for macabre material like Pan’s Labyrinth. “We’re writing the screenplays with him, so […]

Precious

Precious has been lauded with praise since its debut at Sundance this year and considered a front runner for Best Picture for a while now, and while I don’t quite agree with that assessment the film is still a well made drama about overcoming your obstacles in life no matter how hard they come. Precious […]

Bright Star

The new Jane Campion film is a period love story where the two lovers are destined to never be together and while it can be a bit slow and overly dramatic at times the three main actors are in top form and are worth the price of admission. Following the love affair of Fanny Brawne […]

Assassination of a High School President

Assassination of a High School President has gone through a long process to get to the masses, a Sundance 08 film that received a decent amount of praise and deemed marketable has finally hit DVD almost two years later and I don’t know why it took so long. The film follows a sophomore student, Bobby […]

Spielberg to Adapt Stephen King’s Under the Dome

Spielberg has optioned the recently released novel for a hopeful tv series event sometime on cable down the line.  The plot goes like this: The plot, “revolves around the drama that unfolds after an invisible force field suddenly descends on a small vacation town in Maine. As the locals fight for their survival, the town […]