Posts Tagged ‘Anthony Hopkins’
Film Review – Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
Kidnapping Mr. Heineken puts us into the paranoid mind set of the kidnappers in this tense true crime drama. Knowing nothing about the case of the beer moguls abduction before seeing the film I did have a lot of assumptions about what would happen that did…
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Film Review – A Walk Among The Tombstones
The era of “Badass Liam Neeson” continues with A Walk Among The Tombstones (2014). Unlike his previous outings, this is not a high-octane action film. It’s quieter, a bit more methodical, and although Neeson does traverse familiar territory in terms of performance, there is something…
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Film Review – Thor: The Dark World
Thor: The Dark World marks Marvel Studios‘ biggest cinematic disappointment since Iron Man 2 (2010). It is a goofy, clunky film more interested in fitting with the rest of the Marvel Universe than in telling its own fully developed story. While I was not a…
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RED 2 – Video Podcast #267
In honor of its release, Spencer and Greg take a look at RED 2, its director Dean Parisot and stars Bruce Willis & John Malkovich.
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Film Review – RED 2
In 2010, Summit Entertainment scored a surprise hit with their comic adaptation RED, a story about a group of older former spies (RED = Retired Extremely Dangerous) getting thrown back into the action. The film looked hokey from the trailers, but ended up being quite…
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CinemaCon Days 3&4 Recap
If screenings of clips from Star Trek Into Darkness and Fast & Furious 6 weren’t cool enough, we still had two days worth of studio presentations (Disney, Sony, 20th Century Fox, and Lionsgate) at CinemaCon 2013. Generally the presentations went two ways: either the presenters would briefly mention a…
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Episode 228 – Catherine Zeta-Jones
In honor of the release of Side Effects, Spencer and Greg discuss Catherine Zeta-Jones.
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Film Review – Hitchcock
If I had to name the three directors most responsible for my love of movies, I would list Alfred Hitchcock, John Carpenter, and Woody Allen. (You can throw in Ernst Lubitsch and Michael Curtiz to round out the top five, if you’d like.) Hitchcock is…
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