Who’s that covered in all that blood? Oh, it’s just Carrie. Again. If you’re like us, you’ve been anxiously awaiting the trailer for the talent-packed (Julianne Moore! Chloe Grace Moretz!) remake of “Carrie.” Brian De Palma’s 1976, Sissy Spacek-starring horror flick (based on the Stephen King novel) may not have been perfect, but it certainly had enough going on (Piper Laurie’s appropriately over-the-top performance, for one) to warrant the question Read More ...
As the new Fast 6 poster drives inCan you smell burning rubber, as though something has just slammed on the brakes and come to a screeching halt? That would be because veteran Fast & Furious director Justin Lin has decided to leap from the franchise and won’t be crafting the seventh film.According to the Hollywood Reporter, this isn’t because of some huge spat between Lin and executives or Fast main Read More ...
If you've heard anything about the Evil Dead remake, you've probably heard that it's violent. Uncomfortably, brutally violent. "Causing people to flee the theater and pass out in their seats" violent. You've also heard from a fair share of critics and audiences that it's a legitimately good movie that amounts to more than the sum of its (severed) parts. Violence in horror cinema has often been accused of being a symptom Read More ...
Reacting to news of the film critic’s death, the president said: “For a generation of Americans — and especially Chicagoans — Roger was the movies.”read more Read More…
Babs is getting back behind the camera. Barbra Streisand, the legendary singer and actress, is set to direct her fourth feature film, her first since 1996. The as-yet-untitled story centers around the romance between groundbreaking photographer Margaret Bourke-White and author Erskine Caldwell, who collaborated on several projects together in the 1930s and ’40s. Streisand’s previous forays into film-making have all been hugely successful. She made her directorial debut in 1983 Read More ...
Many audience members recoil from remakes out of frustration that Hollywood can't seem to come up with anything new, but Evil Dead hopes to have audiences recoiling for entirely different reasons. Reports from advance screenings have noted people passing out in the aisles and even the most hard-core horror fanatics have said Evil Dead is easily one of the goriest mainstream offerings in recent memory. Director Fede Alvarez was met with Read More ...
No space for AerosmithOne of the great mysteries of Baz Luhrmann’s take on The Great Gatsby has been the choice of musical cues. Would he follow Jack Clayton in using 1920s music, Charleston, Lindy Hop and all, or… who are we kidding? He was never doing that. Instead, he recruited Jay-Z to supervise a soundtrack that, unsurprisingly, has a heavy R ‘n’ B and hip-hop flavour.Pitchfork, who broke the playlist in Read More ...
A week’s worth of new posters have paved the way for The Great Gatsby‘s latest trailer, which shows off quite a bit of new footage. In contrast to the earlier trailers, which played up the heady party atmosphere of the 1920s, this one emphasizes the fiery passions that drive the Baz Luhrmann-directed tale. Specifically, it delves [...]Read More…
Heading to the movies this weekend? Expect overwhelming feelings of nostalgia and dread, mixed with a lot of terror. This weekend marks the release of two highly anticipated films: the remake/reboot/re-imagining of the 1981 cult horror classic “Evil Dead” and the remastered, 3D-ified Steven Spielberg classic “Jurassic Park.” If you’ve been living under a rock for the past 20 years, “Jurassic Park” is a Spielberg-helmed action-adventure about an amusement park, Read More ...
Whoops! It’s an apocalypseEveryone’s had one of those days when everything seems to go up in smoke. Only for Brad Pitt’s UN wonk Gerry Lane it’s a bit more literal than that in this new World War Z poster. Everything has gone up in smoke. Like, the entire city. He can probably spot his house from up there – and guess what? It’s on fire.{New World War Z One-Sheet}The poster, Read More ...