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Chris Evans Named Captain America
After much speculation, THR’s Heat Vision Blog finally broke the news that Chris Evans will play Steve Rogers, who you know as the iconic and ultra patriotic comic book hero, Captain America. Sources...
Mar 23, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongRevered and Reviled: D.W. Griffith’s ‘The Birth of a Nation’
“We do not fear censorship, for we have no wish to offend with improprieties or obscenities, but we do demand, as a right, the liberty to show the dark side of wrong, that we may illuminate the...
Feb 26, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongHollywood Films Follow Mathematical Formulas to Match Attention Spans of Viewers
[Click Photo to Enlarge] Do you ever get the feeling that big Hollywood blockbusters are just heartless products following an established formula to maximize profits? Well, that assessment may be...
Feb 24, 2010 / Eric M. Armstrong‘Terminator’ May Rise Again
Try as they might, the directors of the third and fourth “Terminator” films can’t seem to kill the fan-favorite sci-fi/horror franchise. Variety reports that Pacificor LLC, which acquired the...
Feb 18, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongCop Out Trailer
Two longtime NYPD partners on the trail of a stolen, rare, mint-condition baseball card find themselves up against a merciless, memorabilia-obsessed gangster. Jimmy (Bruce Willis) is the veteran...
Jan 6, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongUp in the Air (2009)
“How much does your life weigh?” George Clooney plays Ryan Bingham, a hit man. He doesn’t kill people, well, at least not directly. He’s a corporate hatchet man who fires people for a living — people...
Jan 6, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongJackson: ‘Hobbit’ Casting to Begin This Week
Bilbo Baggins will soon have a face. Peter Jackson, director of “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, revealed in an interview that casting on the highly anticipated “The Hobbit” would begin this week....
Dec 9, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongTMA FilmCast #22 – Inglourious Basterds
Quentin Tarantino’s controversial revisionist’s WWII saga, “Inglourious Basterds” has had fans cheering and moralizers crying foul. Does it really deny the holocaust? Is it as boring as some have...
Nov 5, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongFincher to Adapt ‘House of Cards’
David Fincher, director of “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “Zodiac,” and “Fight Club,” has teamed with Media Rights Capital to adapt the popular British miniseries, “House of Cards,” for...
Oct 22, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongUp In The Air Trailer
George Clooney stars as Ryan Bingham, a corporate hatchet man who loves his life on the road but is forced to fight for his job when his company downsizes its travel budget. He is required to spend...
Oct 5, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongTarantino Plans For ‘Kill Bill: Vol. 3’
Controversial filmmaker, Quentin Tarantino, announced Saturday at the Morelia Intl. Film Festival that he plans on making a “Kill Bill: Vol. 3.” Variety reports that the eccentric director, attending...
Oct 4, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongInglourious Basterds (2009)
To say that Quentin Tarantino is a movie fan is a bit like saying Paris Hilton likes attention — it’s not only obvious but a gross understatement. Whether you like his work or not, this high school...
Sep 6, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongFunny People (2009)
A sprawling, childish, overlong, unfocused, self-indulgent mess, “Funny People, ” is director Judd Apatow’s third effort at the helm. Funny thing is, in this particular case I’m not so sure all of...
Aug 30, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongTMA FilmCast #18 – The Ugly Truth, Cut From Home
This week’s show is a study in contrast as we review and compare Hollywood’s painfully formulaic and offensive offering, “The Ugly Truth,” and the stubbornly independent, shoe-string budgeted, almost...
Aug 18, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongBryan Singer to Helm ‘Battlestar Galactica’ Movie
Bryan Singer will direct and produce a feature-length film based on the ABC and Sci-Fi television series, “Battlestar Galactica,” for Universal Pictures. The series first aired on ABC in 1978 and ran...
Aug 14, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongRecent Articles
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- 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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