With last night’s launch of Season 2 of Game of Thrones, HBO is now starting to advertising what’s coming from them this summer. One of their most exciting new shows is Aaron Sorkin‘s The Newsroom, which has Jeff Daniels leading an ensemble that includes Emily Mortimer, Dev Patel, Sam Waterston, Olivia Munn, and Alison Pill. The show doesn’t premiere until June 24, but until then here’s a trailer.
One of the side effects of Martin Scorsese being one of America’s greatest living directors is that every new picture is viewed under the magnifying glass of greatness. Is Hugo another in a line of great movies, or is it a muddled attempt at trying to do something out of his reach? Is it an old man picture, with modest pleasures but a looser grasp? Those seem to be the categories the film’s critics slotted the film into, with many adults deciding that Scorsese failed at directing a film for children, to which the only evidence is anecdotal. But the film is good, possibly great (time will tell), and the most engaging and engaged picture Scorsese has made in a while.
I’m often inclined to give family movies a pass (as evidenced by my favorable review of Mr. Popper’s Penguins), if only because sometimes you’ve got to drag the family to a movie theater just to get them all to shut up for 2 hours. Don’t worry, I sympathize here for you. If you needed this critic’s permission to pack up the family and go to the multiplex, here it is: Cars 2 is the ticket to buy this weekend. It’s a big, colorful, noisy spectacle that will please broad audiences looking for a good time, especially small children.
But this is a Pixar film! They’ve made some of the most emotionally resonant films of the last decade! It’s impossible not to compare Cars 2 to the rest of their catalogue, and as soon as you begin to, it breaks down. Read the rest of the review (and more car puns!), after the jump…
Disney and Pixar have really revved up the publicity for this week’s release of Cars 2! Did you see what I did back there, by the way? That was a hilarious car pun. Listen, I’m just trying to appeal to the Cars crowd here. It seemed to work for those studios, at least. Do you have any idea how popular this franchise is?! $2 Billion dollars a year in merchandise and licensing! I’m just trying to follow the formula here. Anyway, director John Lasseter (pictured above) gathered with the film’s stars, Michael Caine, Owen Wilson, Larry the Cable Guy, Emily Mortimer, and Eddie Izzard, to discuss the new film with members of the press. Check out some highlights of what was said, after the jump…
There’s not other way of saying it, with My Idiot Brother mainstream Hollywood has officially hit the streets of Sundance. Despite the fact that I will see Paul Rudd (even when I’m supposed to be looking for the best unknown ____ who is soon to be amazing) in anything and enjoy the entire supporting cast, one can’t help but wonder what this film is doing at an Independent film festival — everything about it seems as mainstream as possible…
Earlier this week we saw the first teaser trailer for Disney-Pixar’s upcoming sequel, Cars 2. The film featured the usual suspects, Owen Wilson and Larry the Cable Guy. But there was one new voice that stuck out in particular and it was none other than Michael Caine. And according to a report from Empire, he’s not the only U.K. actor involved with the film.
How many talented actors do you need in one film? Perhaps we’ll find the answer to that question when Martin Scorsese wraps production on his upcoming feature, The Invention of Hugo Cabret. The movie already includes an acclaimed and award winning cast and now two more actors have joined the party. According to THR, Emily Mortimer and Michael Stulhbarg are the latest additions.
Just try to walk out of this film without feeling the weight of the world on your shoulders! As always, Michael Caine gives a stunning, tear-jerking performance, this time as a sweet old man who loses everything due to some messed up bullies. From the moment this film hits the big screen you know you’re in for something out of the ordinary. This is probably one of the darkest movie’s that I’ve seen in a long time because the violence is set it a real life setting and unlike many action/thriller movies these days, the deaths are heavy and have a huge impact on the characters and therefore the audience…
Samuel Goldwyn has a new thriller coming out, Harry Brown, starring Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, Jack O’Connell and Liam Cunningham, and it is going to be intense. It centers around a character named Harry Brown, who is played by Caine. Brown is a law-abiding citizen who lives alone. His only companion is his best friend Leonard who is killed by some pain in the ass kids. Brown reaches his breaking point and decides that he’s going to take matters into his own hands… after all, what damage can he possibly do?
