He’s made five movies this year alone and they’re all bad, but this Christmas might bring his Alien Vs Predator moment So let’s ask ourselves, since his supposed “return to form” a year ago in David O Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook : how’s Robert De Niro been doing? Was that movie the harbinger of some late-flowering, crepuscular blaze of glory, mirroring in old age the sunburst that was his …
Deal with British Sky Broadcasting will mean customers can watch more than 700 films by paying a monthly subscription BT TV customers will be able to watch recent box office hits including Django Unchained and Argo after the company struck a deal to show Sky Movies channels from 26 October.
(Left to right) David Koechner is Champ Kind, Paul Rudd is Brian Fantana, Will Ferrell is Ron Burgundy and Steve Carell is Brick Tamland in Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, to be released by Paramount Pictures.
Aneurin Barnard in the fantasy adventure film “The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box.” ( Courtesy of RLJ Entertainment / February 14 , 2014 )
My new definition of insanity is expecting that the extended cut of Ridley Scott’s The Counselor might transform this brutal craziness into a great film.
Teen movies can seem far-fetched. For instance, in real life most teens are not played by 29-year-olds.
‘Man and machine do battle in Andrew Bujalski’s Computer Chess, but only in the least dramatic context imaginable: a 1980s tech convention’ Reading this on mobile? Click here to view Spare a thought for the physical media purists as pop culture intensifies its blossoming courtship with online streaming.
Spanish dictator Francisco Franco died in 1975, thus opening up Spanish cinema to a new generation of filmmakers. Particularly notable is Pedro Almodovar , whose outrageous style and subject matter could never have flourished under Fascist censorship. Internationally, Almodovar became that country’s most famous director, starting with his 1988 comedy Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.
A scene from Berberian Sound Studio, a film that follows a team of people creating a horror soundtrack in a post-production studio. ( Courtesy of IFC Films / January 3 , 2014 )