Drama

Changing Lanes Blu-ray review

Samuel L. Jackson lights up the screen as a rehabilitated alcoholic named Doyle Gipson, who’s trying to put the pieces of his life back together. The largest part of his struggle involves his two children, and on this particular day, he’s trying to get to family court in an attempt to win their custody. He’s ….

Martin Luther King Jr. biopic headed to big screen

DreamWorks is developing a biopic on civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. for the big screen, according to Variety. Steven Spielberg, Suzanne de Passe and Madison Jones will produce. The DreamWorks project marks the first film to be authorized by the King estate and gives producers the right to utilize King’s intellectual property – ….

Here’s the first image of Jim Carrey as a miserly animated Ebenezer Scrooge

Disney has released the first image of Jim Carrey in the upcoming Disney’s A Christmas Carol. Carrey stars as the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge in the upcoming film, a multi-sensory film re-envisioned by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis. Capturing the essence of the classic Dickens tale in a groundbreaking 3D motion picture event, Disney’s A Christmas ….

Saturday Night Fever 30th Anniversary Special Collector’s Edition Blu-ray review

The classic disco street epic Saturday Night Fever captured the essence of 1970’s Brooklyn, New York, like no other film before or since, thanks in no small part to the grounded and uncompromising direction of John Badham, who has a knack for bringing a gritty realism to solid action and comedy films like Stakeout, WarGames, ….

Grease Rockin’ Rydell Edition Blu-ray review

The hit Broadway musical Grease, became a hit film in 1978, featuring rising star John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Frankie Avalon and Stockard Channing. The movie firmly established Travolta as a versatile superstar actor and performer, and professional singer Newton-John grounded the project as a stylized musical powerhouse. While Grease may not compare with some of ….

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Criterion Collection Blu-ray review

Born at the conclusion of WWI, the prune-faced and frail Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt) is rejected by his father (Jason Flemyng) and left at the doorstep of Queenie (Taraji P. Henson), who runs a retirement home in New Orleans. The resident doctor suggests that Benjamin’s chances of survival are low. However, the resilient child perseveres, ….

First images of Superman Brandon Routh in Cracktown and Dylan Dog

Brandon Routh has been fairly quiet the past few years, with little to nothing announced in the way of movie projects, aside from a potential Superman sequel, and a few cameos and walk-ons. Well now it seems Routh’s career is heating up again, with a number of projects in the can, in pre-production or short-order ….

Michael Douglas returns to the thriller with a remake of Fritz Lang’s noir Beyond A Reasonable Doubt

The last thriller I saw Michael Douglas in was the 2006 film The Sentinel, which I thought was ok. It didn’t measure up to the classic Douglas action/comedy/thrillers of the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s like Coma, The China Syndrome, The Star Chamber, Romancing the Stone, Black Rain, and the all-time modern classic erotic thriller Basic ….

Dominic West to star in true account of miracle drug developer

Dominic West (The Wire, The Devil’s Whore, The Forgotten) will star as straight-talking Australian scientist Professor Howard Florey in Breaking The Mould for BBC Four, it was announced yesterday. It is widely recognized that Alexander Fleming was the man who discovered penicillin but the truth is a bit more complicated than that – and the ….

Hilary Duff plays a narcissistic seductress in What Goes Up: film snapshot

What Goes Up (formerly titled Safety Glass) is a film about a morally challenged New York reporter, Campbell Babbitt (Steve Coogan), who learns life lessons from a group of dysfunctional students (played by Hilary Duff, Josh Peck, Olivia Thirlby) while covering the hometown hoopla surrounding the first teacher in space. Set in the 1980s, this ….