10 articles

We reported in September that Universal Pictures was developing a live-action movie based on Hasbro’s naval combat board game “Battleship,” to be directed by Peter Berg. Berg explained that the film...
Nov 8, 2009 / Eric M. Armstrong
The first official photo from Joe Carnahan’s “A-Team starring Bradley Cooper as Lt. Templeton “Faceman” Peck, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson as Sgt. “B.A.” Baracus, Sharlto Copley as Capt. “Howling Mad”...
Oct 25, 2009 / Eric M. Armstrong
The battle between artiste and critic had long been raging by the time English playwright, Robert Green, criticized the work of a promising newcomer named William Shakespeare in the late 16th...
Sep 15, 2009 / Eric M. Armstrong
This week Kathryn Bigelow’s Iraq War film, “The Hurt Locker,” goes under the TMA microscope. Does it live up to all the hype? Also, Scott talks about the Jude Law, Ed Harris sniper flick, “Enemy at...
Jul 15, 2009 / Eric M. Armstrong
Monumental hack, Michael Bay, has managed to explode and destroy his way into the top spot at the box office with his mind-numbing, racist, narcissistic, misogynistic, anti-intellectual,...
Jul 6, 2009 / Eric M. Armstrong
Explosions! 2007′s “Transformers” was a mindless, tasteless, overly CGI-ed and under-plotted piece of explosion-driven schlock. Not a terribly good movie, but a reasonably good time nonetheless. It’s...
Jul 6, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongMichael Bay’s ridiculous new blockbuster, “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” is one of the most bloated, inane, banal, deplorable pieces of garbage that I’ve ever seen. Apparently I’m not the...
Jul 1, 2009 / Eric M. Armstrong
Adam Goodman, Paramount’s newly minted President, has made the action-comedy pitch “License to Steal” his first major acquisition, paying seven figures upfront for it, according to Variety . Shane...
Jun 29, 2009 / Eric M. Armstrong
Sudden deaths, fabricated environments, false protagonists, and red herrings are all part of the same cinematic device–the plot twist. Used to shock audiences, maintain interest, or at it’s best to...
Feb 14, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongBilled as a “unique feature documentary event,” The People VS. George Lucas is a new film slated to be released in 2010. George Lucas is indisputably one of cinema’s most polarizing figures and this...
Feb 14, 2009 / Eric M. Armstrong


