An Americanized adaptation of Charles Dickens’ beloved dark novel, Great Expectations is a romantic drama directed by Alfonso Cuarón and starring Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow. Greatly simplified by focusing only on the essential characters and events, this film is a stylish contemporary version [...]
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Movie Review: Iron Man 2 (2010)
In 2008, Iron Man strayed away from the usual comic superhero formula and became an unexpected worldwide box office smash hit, racking up over $585 million. Aided by a star-reviving performance from the mercurial Robert Downey Jr. as well as some bold risk-taking from the studio, the origin story became an excellent stepping stone for a successful franchise.
1001 Movies: Se7en (1995)
David Fincher’s Se7en is a crime thriller that has become one of my favorite film of all-time. It initially appears as your typical run-of-the-mill serial killer movie but manages to go against all the viewer’s expectations. Fincher crafted an incredibly dark and bleak movie and the absolutely shocking final twist takes you aback like very few movies I have seen have ever managed to do.
Movie News: Weekly Round-Up
Movie News: Bill Wisher treatments on Terminator 5 and 6 (Deadline) Last Twilight novel split into two movies (Deadline) Kevin Costner to direct and star A Little War of our Own (Variety) Darkest of Days video game will be adapted to the big screen (SlashFilm) New Riddick sequel in pipeline (Variety) Very cool unreleased movie [...]
Movie Review: Ironman (2008)
Just came back from Iron Man, by far the best Marvel comics movie up to this point (yea except for Spiderman 2, it’s really not that hard to do). I could give you the whole story again but you can read that in any review right? Robert Downey Jr. has always been an extremely talented [...]
