The summer blockbuster onslaught is already underway with Furious 7 opening this weekend.
This Week in Cinemas & Streams: Friday April 3, 2015
Category: Film
Trailer Factor: Little Reveal and Big Tease in ‘Spectre’ Trailer
This Week in Cinemas & Streams
Hard to believe entertainment industry pundits now refer to the end of March as the last calm weekend before the summer blockbuster onslaught. Yet, Furious 7 lands next Friday with Avengers: Age of Ultron on its coattails.
Film: Review of Horror Classic ’It Follows’
That’s what classic horror movies like It Follows do. Basically, they rip you from safe places and everyday spaces.
‘The Interview’ and the End of Mainstream Hollywood
Personally, I’m looking forward to the fast-approaching time where every studio movie outside the tent-pole category receives an omni-channel release and becomes the new mainstream. Then, I’m ready for the Next Disruption and conversations about The Interview as the way things used to be.
300: Rise of an Empire claims thousands of male fighters but Eva Green is ruthlessly superior to all of them
After watching 300: Rise of an Empire, it’s clear that blockbusters are made better by Green’s powerful presence. In a sea of macho male fighters, each one more muscular than the next, it’s Green who proves to be the bloodiest soldier of them all.
Philip Seymour Hoffman: After a weekend at Sundance spent celebrating two new movies, an untimely and tragic farewell
Philip Seymour Hoffman, 46, who passed Sunday February 2nd from a drug overdose, was a true hybrid artist; seamlessly shifting from stage work at New York’s LAByrinth theater to larger Broadway productions as well as blockbuster spectacles like the recent The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
Trailer Factor: Four Standout Scenes from ‘Divergent’ Trailer
Critics compare Divergent to the Hunger Games books and the similarities are evident throughout the first trailer for the upcoming movie adaptation by director Neil Burger (The Lucky Ones).
One Sheet Wonder: Disney’s ‘Maleficent’
Maleficent is a marquee role for Angelina Jolie whose alabaster skin and high cheekbones looks stunning on the poster.
Want to learn more about the American Dream? Then, follow ‘Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s’ filmmaker Matthew Miele to luxury retailer Bergdorf Goodman
Filmmaker Matthew Miele describes creative sparks behind his documentary Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s, an engaging look at Fifth Avenue retailer.