The upcoming film adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks’ novel Safe Haven is the eighth time the author’s novels has been brought to the big screen. And while, yes, there is a typical Sparks’ love story at the heart of the book and film, Safe Haven has things that make it different from any of the previous movies.
Read moreLasse Hallstrom brings Nicholas Sparks’ ‘Safe Haven’ to the big screen
I’m pretty sure we’ve seen as much of Maggie Smith as we have of Matthew McConaughey and Channing Tatum within the last year.
Galaxies collide as the man who reinvented Star Trek will helm at least the first in a new Star Wars trilogy.
Read moreIT’S OFFICIAL: J.J. Abrams to direct ‘Star Wars VII’
There is something very familiar about the title character of Parker as portrayed by Jason Statham. That is because we’ve seen this character before. In the past however, he didn’t have the name “Parker”.
[rating=3]Starring: Jessica Chastain, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Megan Charpentier, Isabelle Nélisse, Daniel Kash, Jane Moffat
Directors: Andrés Muschietti
Writers: Neil Cross, Andrés Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti
What makes a thriller good? Is it ingenuity or number of scares? Mama, directed by Andrés Muschietti, dips into the supernatural while still gripping onto such familiar umbrella areas as scary houses and unpredictable children. It’s no fright fest, but it is, for a long time, an intriguing domestic parable. As an exercise in the genre, Mama doesn’t completely redefine its core, but it stretches it to a more limber stage.
Some movies should have a sign hung over the doorway that read, in big bold letters, “suspend disbelief before entry”. The Last Stand is one such movie. While the action is a bit over the top, the comedy is able to generate laughs where desired and the audience gets the fun romp that is expected; the basic story and plot elements are just ridiculous.
The old TV shows Dragnet always ended with the narrator saying “the story you’ve just seen is true. The names were changed to protect the innocent.” When it comes to Gangster Squad, parts of the story are true. There really was a Gangster Squad in Los Angeles in the late 1940s, there really was a mobster named Mickey Cohen, and there were LAPD sergeants named Jack O’Mara and Jerry Wooters.
[rating=2]Starring: Russell Crowe, Mark Wahlberg, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jeffrey Wright, Barry Pepper, Alona Tal, Natalie Martinez, Kyle Chandler and Michael Beach
Director(s): Allen Hughes
Writer(s): Brian Tucker
For nearly ten years now there is a “black list” published annually in Hollywood. It supposedly contains the best “unproduced” scripts out there. Broken City was on this list for several years until it finally escaped from “development hell” … but perhaps it should have been left there.
Read moreIt isn’t NYC that needs repair in ‘Broken City’ – it’s the script
LUV stars rapper Common as “Vincent”, an ex-convict who is now living with his mother and nephew in Mom’s house. Word on the street is that he gained early parole for “ratting out” some of his former criminal associates. And he has no plans to return to his former life, instead planning to borrow a large sum of money from a bank to open a crab shack. The idea of opening yet another large crab shack in Baltimore speaks for itself when it comes to bad business models.
It’s Toy Story like you’ve never seen it before… in live action with real toys!