Posted on June 28, 2014 at 8:00 am
Cinema Blend reports that a remake of the Matthew Broderick film “Wargames” is in the works, possibly with Ansel Elgort or Tye Sheridan in the lead role. This is an awful idea. What made WarGames so popular in 1983 was how prescient it was. The set, at the time the most expensive ever built, was …
Posted on June 28, 2014 at 8:00 am
Some people want to know if a movie has a good story, compelling characters, or stunning images. You can come here to read my reviews and find answers to those questions. Some people just want to know if the dog dies. So, now there’s a website that will tell you if the dog dies. Thanks, …
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Posted on June 27, 2014 at 4:28 pm
Clint Eastwood is not a favorite of mine as an actor or a director, though I appreciate some of his work. I think his best performance may have been in Gran Torino, which he also directed. But as a director, he was able to create the movie around his strengths as an actor and around …
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Posted on June 26, 2014 at 5:59 pm
The script for the new Transformers movie is basically: Noise. Explosions. Chases. Guy-on-guy fighting. Transformer-on-Transformer fighting. Brief pauses for father-teenage daughter conflict, father-boyfriend of the teenage daughter conflict, paranoia-inducing rogue government operatives, paranoia-inducing megalomaniacal one-percenter, and a flicker of a robot existential crisis. Then back to the noise, explosions, and massive PG-13 destruction, meaning more …
Posted on June 26, 2014 at 3:32 pm
Go behind the scenes with film critic Kevin Lee to see a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the making of “Transformers: Age of Extinction.” I love the way he incorporated the amateur videos made by fans as the big-budget studio film was being made in Chicago. You can read more about his experience of making this documentary …
