Flick Nation: Home Media Guide – 11/03/15
Arnold’s back, and so are the bad reviews! Is Terminator Genisys really that bad? Or does that distinction belong to the reboot of The Man from...
Room (Review)
With awards season coming up, you’ve inevitably heard about Lenny Abrahamson’s film Room, and for good reason. It’s a solid film that features a simply fantastic performance from up and coming actress Brie Larson that will more than likely get her a Best Actress nomination which is richly deserved. However as an overall film Room is on the plus side of good but Larson’s performance makes it a must-see. (This is also a difficult film...
Flick Nation: Home Media Guide – 10/20/15
Mark your calendars because October 21, 2015 is the day Marty McFly and Doc Brown are set to arrive from the past. It’s also marks the arrival of a brand-new Back to the Future 30th anniversary set. Hosted by Dennis...
Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Final Trailer
What can you say about a trailer that’s had more written about it than most feature length films? Nothing! Except this. Netizens are already finding things to complain about, but that’s the nature of the beast when something is so hyped, so desired, so … owned … by the entire world. So we debate, we speculate, we argue, we pre-emptively start complaining about Star Trek Into Darkness again. Some of us have read...
Huge Info Dump in Regards to Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Look people, here’s some hard and fast information about what could potentially be the biggest cinematic event ever. It’s in regards to Star Wars: The Force Awakens and most official info dropped this weekend. Pay attention, Fuzzballs. Yesterday (Sunday) the official poster for Episode V11 (that’s SEVEN for the Roman Numerically Impaired) was released and it’s wonderful. That’s it down below there. We get a good look at many...
Heart Like A Hand Grenade (Review)
Filmmaker John Roecker was lucky enough to be on-hand to document the recording and subsequent early performances of Green Day’s monumental album “American Idiot” and the results are the 11-years-in-the-making documentary Heart Like a Hand Grenade. While the documentary is fun and makes some nice attempts to add an artsy flavor to the typical “making of an album documentary” it does tend to drag on a bit. However fans of the band...
It’s Time for the Mill Valley Film Festival
The 38th Annual Mill Valley Film Festival kicked off last night featuring Tom McCarthy’s film Spotlight as it’s main premiere. While I won’t be in attendance until next week friend and colleague David Templeton said the film was “brilliant [expletive removed]-ing brilliant.” Strong words for what will probably be an Oscar contender come spring. Which brings me to my pre-festival review of the Mill Valley Film Festival. As a filmmaker...
Hail Caeser! (Trailer)
February 5 cannot get here fast enough. Why? Because that’s when The Coen Brothers latest film Hail Caesar! opens. This is the brothers’ latest film after their best film, Inside LLewyn Davis which I still refuse to believe didn’t win Best Picture in 2013. In fact, I refuse to believe it wasn’t nominated either. Now I’m getting angry. Back to Hail Caesar! Which looks funny and thinking about it is already cheering me up. The film...
Finders Keepers (Review)
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, o.k.? A guy goes to a storage yard sale and buys a BBQ smoker. When he gets it home to clean it out, he finds a real human foot inside. Ever the entrepreneur, the man decides to charge people money to see it but when the person who the foot belonged to gets wind of this, he wants it back. It’s his foot! However much like buying a mattress and finding cash tucked inside of it, the courts...
Flick Nation: Home Media Guide – 10/06/15
The biggest movie of the year (to date) come to home media. That’s right, Jurassic World is now the 3rd biggest film EVER. No pressure, Star...
All I Wants a Pepsi! Just One Pepsi!
According to this report from 2011, it costs give or take 50 cents to make and manufacture one can of Coke. So they about double their profits on single cans and I’m too lazy to do the math for 6-packs and so forth. However now fans of fizzy sugar water are going to get a chance to pay just over $20.00 for a 16oz bottle all in the name of fandom. Yes, Back to the Future II fans, on October 21 you can all help me celebrate myself and...
The Martian (Review)
On the website They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They, Ridley Scott is rated among the 50 best directors of all time, one of only 11 living souls on the list. This rating is largely based on two films, both sci-fi efforts, Alien (1979) and Blade Runner (1982), as well as Thelma and Louise (1991) running a distant third. It certainly is not based on movies like Legend (1985), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), Kingdom of Heaven (2005),...
The Revenant (Trailer)
Well, that looks pretty fantastic, wouldn’t you say? I’m speaking of course of the new trailer for The Revenant which now looks poised to win all the awards and make all the money this winter. And if the movie is as good as that trailer, I’m pretty much cool with that. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as fur trapper Hugh Glass who, as is seen in the trailer, is attacked by a bear and left to die. He doesn’t. He gets mad. He’s seeking...
The Green Inferno (Review)
Director Eli Roth returns to the director’s chair with this vile, abhorrent, incompetent, dumb, hateful cannibal torture film. College freshman Justine (Lorenza Izzo), whose father is a UN lawyer, decides to become an activist to help stop female genital mutilation in other countries. She joins the charismatic Alejandro (Ariel Levy) on a trip to the Amazon to demonstrate against big companies bulldozing the rainforest. On the...
Flick Nation: Home Media Guide – 9/29/15
Redux Alert: Magic Mike grinds out a second movie, Insidious scares up a third. And San Andreas destroys San Francisco, because, you know, that’s never been done before. Hosted by Dennis...
Listen to Sam Smith’s SPECTRE theme
For the die hard James Bond fans, there is a similar march that happens every time a new film is upon us. The title is revealed globally through some clever means, and we are treated to bits and pieces of information from the shoot through vlogs, posters, trailers – by now, you know his name. Invariably, we always arrive here. The world premiere of the brand new James Bond theme. How special is this day? Well, there really have...
Everest (Review)
History shows again and again how nature points of the folly of man… “Godzilla”- Blue Öyster Cult Cinema has long been a wonderful place to bring to life true stories of brave men and women from all corners of the globe who overcome incredible odds in order to survive life-threatening situations. Films of this nature are so multiple and varied it can be hard to narrow it down to a few but Apollo 13, 127 Hours, Rescue Dawn...
Sicario (Review)
Let’s take just a moment to sing the praises of Roger Deakins, who is surely one of the greatest living cinematographers, and, for that matter, probably one of the greatest of all time. He has shot several movies for the Coen brothers, including Fargo, The Big Lebowski, The Man Who Wasn’t There (in black and white), and No Country for Old Men, as well as Frank Darabont’s The Shawshank Redemption, Tim Robbins’...
A-Team returns to television
According to this article on Deadline, the iconic ‘80s juggernaut known as The A-Team is being developed for a return to TV. Fast & Furious writer-producer Chris Morgan will executive produce alongside original series creator Stephen J. Cannell’s daughter, Tawnia McKiernan with a script written by Sleepy Hollow executive producer Albert Kim. Who saw that coming? Rebooting projects with strong brand recognition isn’t exactly...
Black Mass (Review)
Like the character it portrays, Black Mass avoids flash and grandeur and joins a long tradition of good-if-not-great gangster movies. American moviemakers have been making gangster movies since the beginning of movies — Raoul Walsh’s 1915 Regeneration may have been the first — and there’s never any shortage of gangster stories, true or fictional. But sometimes filmmakers try to say something important about America or...
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