The biggest problem with a sequel to a successful comedy is that it's hard not to either disappoint, or basically remake the first film. Such is why The Hangover sequels have been so disappointing. Often, the best solution is to get the gang back together, but do something completely different. Here's out top ten list of films that brought back a lot of the same...
Ken Jeong may have gotten his big break by appearing in Judd Apatow's Knocked Up, but it was the moment he popped out of a trunk naked in The Hangover that turned him in star. And now with the third film in the series, The Hangover Part III, he's become the star of the new film, as the whole film revolves around...
In Elementary's two-part finale, nothing was as it seemed. Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) was reunited with the love of his life, while under the watchful eye of Moriarty. When Irene Adler (guest star Natalie Dormer) rises from the grave, it knocks Sherlock off his feet. But her return was nothing compared to Moriarty's next reveal. What did you...
Comic book movies. They're everywhere now, and they're the biggest movies of the year. Post-Avengers, which made one and a half billion dollars worldwide, we're going to be getting more and more of them, as both Marvel and DC have got plans for their futures. So, it's time to take stock, and check back on the best of this genre. (Note: this only pertains to...
The third season of The Walking Dead is now behind us, and we can all agree that said season was the most intense of them all. Every episode was chock-full of awesome zombie killing, and a number of interesting new characters were introduced. But now that it's over, let's take a step back. And though the death toll was sky high (in a zombie world casualties are unavoidable),...
Park Chan-wook's Stoker is the sort of film that is nearly impossible to surmise. It's about serial killers and human nature, doused in Southern Gothic. It's a DNA experiment meant to combine Alfred Hitchcock and Tennessee Williams. And though maybe the story is a little less interesting when it's all summed up, Park directs the living hell out of it, making for one...
If we get ten movies better than Stoker this year, we’re in for a great year of movies. Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook came to America to film a Southern gothic fairy tale, and he made an indelible film that’s well worth seeking out. He also assembled a great team of actors to make it. We got a chance to sit down with Chan-wook, and stars Nicole Kidman, Matthew...
It took awhile but we all officially made it through the 85th Annual Academy Awards. There were a fair share of surprises sprinkled throughout the slightly entertaining broadcast, but now is not the time to gush about how happy we are that some people won. It's time to examine this year's list of winners and reflect on whether or not their wins were, well, deserved to be blunt.
It's finally Oscar Sunday, and many of us couldn't be happier. The town of Los Angeles has just been buzzing with anticipation all week as we all quietly make bets over who will win at this year's 85th Annual Academy Awards. Now the winners will finally be announced and we hope there's a couple of upsets in the mix. If the likes of Ben...
This weekend we're finally going to find out who will be awarded a shiny new Oscar for their outstanding work in Hollywood. You can cross your fingers, hoping your favorites will go home with the trophy under their arms but it's going to be a close race. The threat of an upset always looms overhead. Since we're all speculating over who could win on Sunday, I'll be running down my own list of...
Out of all of the rom-com queens we've crowned and dethroned, Kate Hudson is the one I keep coming back to. Call me corny, but her performance as Penny Lane in Cameron Crowe's inspiring film Almost Famous permanently earned her spot in my heart. So, for Valentine's Day, let's look back on her career...
Time certainly does fly. We're less than two weeks away from the Academy Awards and the last string of awards were just given out this past weekend. The Oscar race hasn't changed all that much, but further solidifies what you should expect when we watch the awards on February 24th.
There are a great deal of romantic movies in the world. Even if the film doesn't fall under that genre, the element of love finds its way in the mix. But despite the abundance of love stories in cinema, it's still very hard to find a truly romantic character. The idea of romance has been thrashed and labeled as corny thanks to teen franchises and bad rom-coms. Yup, romance gets a bad rap. But...
Valentine's Day is this week, which means that people are going to watch movies in order to get into that romantic mood. To swoon over the sights of Jack Dawson as his boyish allure literally sweeps Rose off of her feet and into bed in Titanic, for instance. Some may go for a more rugged man the likes of the sarcastic but sexy Jack T. Colton in the hilarious romantic...
I remember it like it was yesterday. After suffering through what seemed like an hour of bad romance, and a side plot that didn't advance much character (and maybe a little plot), we saw Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi go toe to toe with Count Dooku. Yeah, maybe the fights were a little CGI enhanced, but it was still a lightsaber battle. Then Yoda showed up and turned into a whirling...
It's safe to say that ScreenCrave didn't quite agree this years Sundance Film Festival Awards Winners, though we applaud those filmmakers and admit to not seeing some of the winning films, we liked a whole different group of film! Between three of us covering, Brendan Walsh, Christie Ko and myself, we saw over 40 films at the festival, and out of those 40, these are our top 10 films that we...
Every year at the Golden Globes the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) honors actors, directors and films in ways that may not line up with the Oscars. After the Globes were announced, many are speculating that this could be the year of the great Oscar upset. Then there's Kathryn Bigelow, who is fighting on for her movie Zero Dark Thirty as the political critics continue to...
The thermometer may read 0 degrees Fahrenheit in Park City, Utah, but things are about to start heating up. The countdown to the 2013 Sundance Film Festival has begun and my dance card is filling up fast. I'm packing my warmest clothes and ploughing through synopses, cast-lists, and an onslaught of press invitations currently clogging my email inbox. As with every year, there are far more...
Zero Dark Thirty is finally going to be playing nationwide this weekend, which means audiences can finally decide for themselves if the film is pro or anti-torture. It’s worth checking out as it’s one of the best films of 2012, and we got a chance to talk with stars Jessica Chastain and Jason Clarke, director Kathryn Bigelow, and screenwriter Mark...
Zero Dark Thirty was made with a cinema vertie approach, which means it tries to get the viewer to feel like a fly on the wall. What that meant for editors William Goldenberg and Dylan Tichenor was sorting through over thirteen days of footage, somewhere over 320 hours of film, and with a ticking clock that had them delivering the final cut mere days before the film...
