by Sean Axmaker | Dec 12, 2013 | Reviews, Staff Picks
What does it take to get an Abel Ferrara film released today? Of the six features he made since ‘R Xmas in 2001, only 4:44 Last Day on Earth landed a distributor and a limited American release in theaters and on home video. Ferrara fans – and yes, we’re...
by Myriam Gabriel-Pollock | Nov 26, 2013 | News
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy occurred over 50 years ago on November 22, 1963, and the world may finally have an answer to who really did it. The decades-long mystery seems to have been solved by the people at X-Men: Days of Future Past, whose...
by Myriam Gabriel-Pollock | Nov 25, 2013 | News
The second installment of The Hunger Games franchise torched the weekend box office like nobody’s business, with Catching Fire generating $161.1 million in North American ticket sales between Thursday and Sunday. But it also marked a significant broadening in...
by Myriam Gabriel-Pollock | Nov 25, 2013 | News
Took them long enough, but Marvel has finally confirmed that Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen are joining the cast of Joss Whedon’s The Avengers: Age of Ultron, which opens May 1, 2015. Taylor-Johnson, formerly seen in the Kick-Ass films (2010, 2013) and...
by Sean Axmaker | Nov 19, 2013 | Home Viewing
I never saw 2 Guns (Universal, Blu-ray, DVD, On Demand) in theaters. I kind of wish I did, now, having caught up with it on disc with a friend of mine. The screenplay (based on graphic novel) is silly, mind you, but no more so than most action films today and less so...