The Matrix Reloaded
Free your mind. As Neo’s (Keanu Reeves) powers are growing stronger, the humans must find the Keymaker who could lead them to the machines’ mainframe. There are moments in this costly sequel to The...
View ArticleThe Matrix Revolutions
Everything that has a beginning has an end. The concluding chapter of the Matrix trilogy makes you realize that the whole concept of the Matrix has now become so screwed-up that there are basically no...
View ArticleMission Impossible III: Alias Writ Large
Most filmmakers start their careers making small, low-budget features that, if they’re lucky, could be slated for a festival. Others start out by directing a $150,000 000 blockbuster starring Tom...
View ArticleThe Matrix: Rage Against the Machines
The fight for the future begins. When Larry and Andy Wachowski were working as screenwriters on a film called Assassins (1995), they showed producer Joel Silver another script. He loved it, but not...
View ArticleBobby
22 lives linked by a moment the world would never forget. It took Emilio Estevez many years to get this movie done, but eventually it turned into a talked-about event with a truly star-studded cast....
View ArticlePredators
FEAR IS REBORN. A group of killers, including a black ops soldier (Adrien Brody) who assumes leadership, are dropped into a jungle where they seem to be hunted by predatory aliens. Not really a remake...
View ArticleContagion
Nothing spreads like fear. When Beth Emhoff (Gwyneth Paltrow) returns from a trip to Hong Kong, she’s caught a cold that quickly turns out to be something much worse – and the start of a global...
View ArticleMan of Steel
I guess everyone who complained about Superman Returns (2006) can shut up now, because this is what the nerd rage led to – a reboot of the franchise in the shape of a 3D blockbuster that spends one...
View ArticleHollywood Stars in Super Bowl Ads 2014
Last year, I wrote a blog entry highlighting the Super Bowl ads that featured Hollywood stars. After all, I have no interest in neither the game itself nor the halftime show if it’s going to feature...
View ArticleMystic River: Gone Girl
WE BURY OUR SINS, WE WASH THEM CLEAN. Even after the phenomenal Unforgiven (1992), the movie that won Clint Eastwood an Oscar as director, the aging filmmaker went on making a slew of films in the...
View ArticleHoodlum
POWER IS MEASURED IN ENEMIES. In 1930s Harlem, gangster Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson (Laurence Fishburne) challenges the mighty Dutch Schultz (Tim Roth) over control of illegal gaming; the legendary Lucky...
View Article4: Rise of the Silver Surfer
DISCOVER THE SECRET OF THE SURFER. As Reed and Susan (Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba) prepare to get married, Earth is visited by a human-like creature with a silver demeanor; wherever he goes,...
View ArticleHannibal
After several popular movie adaptations, author Thomas Harris’s iconic serial killer Hannibal Lecter got his own TV series – and showrunner Bryan Fuller created a distinct style. Initially, the story...
View ArticleCSI: Dead Men Do Tell Tales
In the fall of 2000, a remake of the old thriller series The Fugitive (1963-1967) was expected to be a hit. It was what CBS believed in. Audiences couldn’t care less, but they did like the new show...
View ArticleBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Billionaire Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck), who hunts criminals as the masked vigilante Batman in Gotham City, is furious to see Superman (Henry Cavill) partly responsible for so many deaths in Metropolis....
View ArticlePassengers
EVERY MOMENT COUNTS. In the distant future, Jim Preston (Chris Pratt) wakes up from hypersleep aboard a spaceship that’s headed for a colony planet, only to realize that he wasn’t supposed to wake up...
View ArticleJohn Wick: Chapter 2
NEVER STAB THE DEVIL IN THE BACK. Italian crime lord Santino D’Antonio (Riccardo Scamarcio) comes to John Wick (Keanu Reeves) to collect a favor, but he refuses… until he’s persuaded to honor his...
View Article21
INSPIRED BY THE TRUE STORY OF FIVE STUDENTS WHO CHANGED THE GAME FOREVER. The brilliant Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) is introduced to a small group of fellow students who are trained by a math...
View ArticleMadiba
FREEDOM IS FOR EVERYONE. The world probably needed yet another retelling of Nelson Mandela’s life about as much as we need another Marvel movie, but if there’s a good story expect many different...
View ArticleThe Color Purple: Spielberg’s New Chapter
IT’S ABOUT LIFE. IT’S ABOUT LOVE. IT’S ABOUT US. In 1985, Steven Spielberg was known as the master of big blockbuster thrills after having made films like Jaws (1975) and Raiders of the Lost Ark...
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