Aging can be a difficult thing, particularly for a movie star. And for an action movie star, it generally means career death. But Bruce Willis, the now 54-year old star of the “Die Hard” films has strangely neither made the jump into politics nor ended up on “Where Are They Now?” The newly remarried megastar [...]
“Flanimals,” a series of children’s book by British actor and comedian Ricky Gervais will get the silver screen treatment. Varitey reports that Illumination Entertainment, the animation and family entertainment sector of Universal, will undertake the project which will apparently be a 3-D animation, feature length film. The children’s books are about several different species of [...]
“Fighting,” the hilariously obvious title of the recently released Channing Tatum film got us thinking about other films with a remarkable lack of creativity when it comes to the most important aspect of public recognition. #5. Fighting Ok, so I understand that fighting is pretty much the only thing that happens in this movie, along [...]
Written and directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, “Crank: High Voltage” is an unabashed success. In the realm of absolutely pointless, mind-numbing, action-packed exploitation it gets a perfect score. But I liken this success to say, being a world yo-yo champion–nobody really cares. Jason Statham (“The Transporter”) is back as Chev Chelios, a nearly [...]
Jazz. This uniquely American music, conceived in the travails of West African immigrants living in a world completely at odds with their roots, and evolved gradually through the influences of ragtime, folk, dixieland, and big-band has left no facet of modern, western culture untouched. Jazz is a study in fluidity, change, expression, spontaneity, and unabashed [...]
The “Nanking Massacre,” the 1937 Japanese ravaging of the eastern Chinese city known as Nanjing has been a point of dispute between the Japanese and Chinese governments for decades. It is generally believed that the Japanese army brutally killed around 150,000 civilians and raped thousands of women there. The Chinese are still looking for an [...]
This week Eric and Scott review Justin Lin’s “Fast & Furious,” along with a couple of indie films you may have missed. This week’s filmcast also features our top five list of ideas for the inevitable forthcoming sequels in the Fast & Furious franchise. Enjoy!
Observe and Report is an often hilarious satire of the traditional underdog story that simultaneously works and fails on a variety of levels. Jody Hill, writer and director of the low-budget Sundance hit, “The Foot Fist Way,” and co-creator of the HBO series, “Eastbound & Down,” crafts a dark, biting comedy that poses an interesting [...]
WICHITA, Kan.—Wichita Association for the Motion Picture Arts (WAMPA) and Tallgrass Film Festival will present a screening of the Finnish film “Mother of Mine” as part of Tallgrass Third Thursdays. This historical narrative, selected as Finland’s nominee for the 2005 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, screens at 7:30 p.m., May 21 at the [...]
Since the “Fast & Furious” folks have tortured us with four impossibly bad incarnations of their despicable macho adrenaline fest, and more sequels are undoubtedly on the horizon, we decided to throw our hat in the ring with ideas for five more movies in the franchise bringing the total to nine and making it a [...]
