ENTERTAINMENT NEWS, REVIEWS
SOUTHPAW (2015) Review “A fighter knows only one way to work” Billy Hope, Southpaw A family sport drama that features the talent of Jake Gyllenhaal and his dedication to his work from being skinny (Nightcrawler) to brawny. Southpaw doesn’t bring anything new to the genre but it does give some genuine feel of a boxing match. …
Perhaps nothing plays on an audience’s own phobias better than making them feel trapped in the kind of place they might frequent every day, all the while hunted by some unknown, unseen force. “It could happen to you, too,” or so the filmmakers seem to be saying while, one by one, the characters on screen …
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Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) has never needed the other members of the IMF more than he does in Paramount Pictures’ “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation” – and despite the appearance that the force is done, they all come together, unpredictably as ever, to take on The Syndicate as only the IMF can. The result is …
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The delightful second trailer for Disney-Pixar’s new comedy adventure “The Good Dinosaur” is now online and may be viewed here: Directed by Peter Sohn (the popular animated short “Partly Cloudy”), the buddy comedy takes place in a world in which the asteroid didn’t smash into Earth millions of years ago, leaving the dinosaurs alive and …
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Excitement builds up as the action-packed, first full trailer for SPECTRE, the 24th James Bond adventure, is unveiled by Columbia Pictures and may be viewed here: SPECTRE follows the release of SKYFALL, the biggest Bond film of all time, which took in $1.1 billion worldwide. In SPECTRE, a cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him …
New Line Cinema’s outrageous comedy “Vacation” starring Ed Helms, Christina Applegate and Chris Hemsworth, marks the big screen return of the Griswold clan—and their epically disastrous family outings. The Griswolds first hit the screen in 1983 with the release of John Hughes’s and Harold Ramis’s zeitgeist-shifting “National Lampoon’s Vacation,” based on Hughes’s short stories in …
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What is she thinking? It’s a question that has gone through the minds of parents worldwide who are attempting to raise teenagers—and it’s one that occurred to “Inside Out” director – the Oscar®-winning Pete Docter (“Up”) – as he witnessed his own daughter Elie growing up. “My daughter did the voice of young Ellie in …
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AMERICAN HEIST (2015) Review “The banking institutions are more dangerous than the army.” For a heist film, one would think that you would experience a suspenseful film that would have at least offer something to take home with you after watching it. American Heist is exhausting. It clutches into these dramas that hardly benefits the …
Hollywood icons Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy together with Academy Award winner director Alejandro González Iñárritu bring an immersive and visceral cinematic experience in “The Revenant.” Inspired by true events, “The Revenant” tells of a man’s epic adventure of survival and the extraordinary power of the human spirit. In an expedition of the uncharted American …
The most awaited Manga anime adaptation of the century is about to open in local cinemas on August 12 – “Attack on Titan,” the live action movie based on the phenomenal series by Hajime Isayama “Shingeki no Kyojin” where human survivors enclosed themselves in a city protected by towering walls when giants invaded their town. …
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