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Action/Adventure

Hasbro’s ‘Battleship’ Movie Invaded by Aliens

Hasbro’s ‘Battleship’ Movie Invaded by Aliens

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
Action/Adventure

First Official ‘A-Team’ Photo

First Official ‘A-Team’ Photo

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
Action/Adventure

Spoiler Alert (2009)

Spoiler Alert (2009)

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
FilmCast

TMA FilmCast #16 – The Hurt Locker, Enemy at the Gates

TMA FilmCast #16 – The Hurt Locker, Enemy at the Gates

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
FilmCast

TMA FilmCast #15 – Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

TMA FilmCast #15 – Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

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
Action/Adventure

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

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. Armstrong
News

10 Plot Holes and Contradictions in ‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’

Michael 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
Essays

Paramount Pays Seven Figures for ‘License to Steal’

Paramount Pays Seven Figures for ‘License to Steal’

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
Essays

14 Awesome Plot Twists You Never Saw Coming (And Some You Did)

14 Awesome Plot Twists You Never Saw Coming (And Some You Did)

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. Armstrong
Essays

2010 to see release of ‘The People Vs. George Lucas’

Billed 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
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