No filmmaker’s oeuvre is as conducive to the categorization of ‘major’ and ‘minor’ works as Woody Allen’s. The writer/director/sometimes-actor has churned out a movie a year since 1982, and the question always remains the same: “Will this be Woody’s next masterpiece, or just a pleasant diversion?” Of course, the latter class of Allen film is […]
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One of the worst things a superhero movie can do is gobble up its running time with multiple under-realized plots, included to cram in as many odds and ends of the source material as possible, that scramble to amount to something substantial in the final minutes. “The Amazing Spider-Man 2”—or “We Already Remade One Sam
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There is no doubt that DreamWorks has established itself as a film-brand nearly as recognizable as Pixar, but the value of such is debatable, given that the brand is essentially “The Big Animation Studio That Isn’t As Good as Pixar.” That’s not to say that the animators at DreamWorks don’t execute a good idea well
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This year’s Oscar-nominated short films will be released in select cities next month, but a vastly inferior program of shorts will sell at least 10 times the number of tickets. “Movie 43,” as it’s titled for no apparent reason, follows the Hollywood moneymaking formula recently re-popularized by “Valentine’s Day” and “New Year’s Eve”: maximize star-power
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When doing press for comic book movies, directors and actors almost always claim that they counted themselves as diehard fans of the source material long before they signed on to the lucrative task of adapting it for the screen. While this is likely more often than not a lie, Mark Webb was clearly telling the
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The first trailer for Gangster Squad, Reuben Fleischer’s (Zombieland, 30 Minutes or Less) first film not starring Jesse Eisenberg, has hit the web and is embedded above. The film, a chronicle of the L.A.P.D.’s fight to keep East Coast Mafia types out of Los Angeles in the 1940s and ’50s, stars Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone,
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The official trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man has arrived. The film is directed by (500) Days of Summer helmer Mark Webb, and stars Andrew Garfield as the titular wall crawler. It co-stars Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Dennis Leary, Martin Sheen, and Sally Field. The film marks a reboot for the Marvel franchise, the last incarnation
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