Articles by Eric M. Armstrong
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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
Is “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time” the best video game adaptation ever? Personally, I prefer Uwe Boll’s “House of the Dead.” At least the latter had the decency not to spend $200 million as if...
May 31, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongShrek Forever After (2010)
The trilogy used to be the golden standard for film franchises prior to the aughts. Every now and then a “James Bond” or a “Godzilla” or a “Star Trek” would come along and break the mold, creating a...
May 30, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongDennis Hopper Dead at 74
Hollywood screen legend, Dennis Hopper, known as one of Tinseltown’s most creative and versatile bad boys died Saturday from complications due to prostate cancer, a friend of the actor told Reuters ....
May 29, 2010 / Eric M. Armstrong50,000 Movies Are Made Every Year — Is That Too Many?
Most advancements in technology, notably the incredible strides digital video has made in recent years, are hailed as grand steps towards some idealized zenith of uninhibited collectivist creativity....
May 27, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongMacGruber (2010)
Saddled with plot holes, tonal and practical inconsistencies, shallow characters and an uneven, intermittently funny script, “MacGruber” is not a good film. But it does feature a surprisingly nuanced...
May 27, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongVideo: Why is ‘Twilight’ So Popular?
Do you have a wife, girlfriend, daughter or mother who is obsessed with Stephanie Meyer’s “Twilight” books and the those awful, awful films? If so, chances are you’ve picked up one of the books at...
May 27, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongTallgrass Presents the Midwest Premiere of Lee Whitman’s ‘WAR STORIES’
Wichita, KAN. – The Tallgrass Film Association and Uncheckable Films will present the Midwest premiere of Wichita-native Lee Whitman’s feature film debut WAR STORIES. The film will screen 7 p.m.,...
May 25, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongTMA’s 25 Greatest Horror Movies of All Time
As usual, distilling the value of a film into a short paragraph and ranking it against every other film ever released in the same genre is imperfect, subjective and quite frankly, irrational — but it...
May 25, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongTerry Gilliam Nabs Ewan McGregor For ‘Don Quixote’
Terry Gilliam’s fittingly Quixotic quest to make a movie set against the backdrop of Miguel de Cervantes’ 17th century magnum opus “Don Quixote” may finally be coming to a head. Empire bumped into...
May 18, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongVideo: Gritty Super Hero Reboot Parody
So, you’ve got a once vibrant franchise that’s made hundreds of millions of dollars. You’d love to keep this golden egg laying goose alive and well, but the most recent iterations have become tired,...
May 18, 2010 / Eric M. Armstrong3D Version of Cult Thriller ‘Battle Royale’ in the Works
For those of you who think 3D is a gimmick and will disappear as quickly as it did in the 1950s, you’re right about the gimmick part. But the technology seems to be here to stay. Hollywood has been...
May 17, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongFox Also Developing a ‘20,000 Leagues’ Movie; Ridley and Tony Scott Attached
Hollywood is notorious for its bandwagon tendencies. Notice how many vampire flicks surfaced immediately following the success of the “Twilight” films? This time around the trend centers on Jules...
May 17, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongDavid Fincher to Direct a ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’ Update in the Vein of ‘Star Wars’
With Hollywood mining comic books, toys, board games and established film and pop-culture properties like there’s no tomorrow, it was only a matter of time before Captain Nemo and his Nautilus would...
May 15, 2010 / Eric M. Armstrong‘Napoleon Dynamite’ Gets Animated for the Small Screen
Can’t get enough of Napoleon’s catch phrases, one-liners, bow staff skills, ligers and wicked awesome dance moves? You’re in luck. MediaBistro is reporting that 20th Century Fox is currently...
May 15, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongWachowskis Developing Iraq War Film With ‘Hard R’ Gay Love Story
Just when you thought the Wachowskis, the team behind “The Matrix” films, couldn’t get any weirder. Deadline is reporting that the brother/sister duo (sister because Larry is a post-op female now...
May 15, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongRecent Articles
- Review: ‘A War’ explores war’s quiet, forgotten horrors
- TMA FilmCast #33 — Vera Chytilova and the Czech New Wave
- The fantasist: The comic art of Woody Allen
- Tribeca picks up North American rights to ‘Misery Loves Comedy’ at Sundance
- TMA FilmCast #32 — Alison Frank interviews Ana Geislerova
- ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ tops Online Film Critics Awards
- TMA FilmCast #31 — Alison Frank reports from 67th Locarno Film Fest
- 5 ½ hour film dominates awards at Locarno
- Shorts at #Locarno67: meditation vs testing the audience’s patience
- ‘The Fool’: A modern propaganda film
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