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“Pompeii” Trailer 26 Aug 2013 | 10:34 pm
I am torn on this one. The trailer looks impressive. The cast in intriguing. The subject is fascinating. But there is a HUGE red flag in the director’s chair!!! Paul W.S. Anderson has an atrociou...
“Divergent” Trailer 26 Aug 2013 | 10:25 pm
Hitting screens in March of 2014 is “Divergent”, an exciting looking futuristic thriller that seems to combine “The Hunger Games” and “Equilibrium”. The film stars Kate Winslet, Shailene Woodley, As...
“Monsters: Dark Continent” Trailer 24 Aug 2013 | 12:49 am
I loved the 2010 original, directed by Gareth Edwards and starring Scoot McNairy and Whitney Able. An entirely new cast and crew take over the sequel… a fact that usually does not bode well. However...
“A Single Shot” Review 23 Aug 2013 | 10:01 pm
In every film, there really ought to be someone to care about… or root for… or sympathize with… or just plain like. Sometimes, an otherwise fine film comes along and leaves you emotionally cold becau...
“We’re The Millers” Review 22 Aug 2013 | 05:42 pm
Two belly laughs, 5 or 6 chuckles and a mountain of half-hearted smirks… It just doesn’t add up to enough to make this a successful comedy. When the biggest risks and the biggest laughs take place in...
“The Purge” Review 22 Aug 2013 | 01:55 am
Review by Mike Horne – contributing film critic. It is the year 2022, the day of “The Purge”, The annual festival of legal carnage introduced by the “New Founding Fathers” of America. This one night ...
“42 ” Review 21 Aug 2013 | 10:31 pm
Review by Mike Horne – contributing film critic. America has had many romances over the years, two of the most significant being Cinema and Baseball. Thanks to Brian Helgeland (“L.A. Confidential”, “...
“Getaway” Trailer 20 Aug 2013 | 11:11 pm
This trailer for “Getaway”, starring Ethan Hawke and Selena Gomez, looks pretty damn good. It seems very much like a cross between “Taken” and “Drive”. If that turns out to be true… then jackpot!!! ...
“The Look of Love” Review 20 Aug 2013 | 04:30 pm
“The Look of Love” recounts the life of Paul Raymond, the British publisher and property developer who became one of the richest men in Europe during the sixties, seventies and eighties, most notably ...
“Encierro 3D” Trailer 15 Aug 2013 | 10:15 pm
This is an absolutely epic trailer for the upcoming documentary, “Encierro 3D: Bull Running in Pamplona”. How they got some of the images in this, I will never know. The close-ups, the tracking shot...
