by Jeff Michael Vice | Apr 25, 2014 | Reviews, What's Hot
Paul Walker died Nov.30, as a result of a tragic auto accident in which he was the passenger, not the driver. At the time of his death, shooting had just begun on Fast & Furious 7, and obviously, he was unable to finish his work on the movie. (It’s still unclear...
by Jeff Michael Vice | Apr 16, 2014 | Editor's Picks, Reviews, What's Hot
Transcendence marks the feature filmmaking debut of Wally Pfister, the “visionary” cinematographer who was responsible at least in part for the mind-blowing look of Inception, Chris Nolan’s 2010, love-it-or-hate-it, dream-world hit. Pfister’s science-fiction thriller...
by Jeff Michael Vice | Apr 15, 2014 | Editor's Picks, Reviews, What's Hot
Silence is never more golden anywhere than it is documentary features. Most, if not all of them, have to employ some sort of voice-over narration to impart certain information. Unfortunately, that narration can be as much a hindrance as a help with the genre. When it...
by Jeff Michael Vice | Apr 9, 2014 | Reviews, What's Hot
The beloved BBC series Spaced and follow-up projects from Spaced co-creator Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) established that Nick Frost was someone whose career was well-worth watching. Of course, there was some question as to whether the portly but...
by Jeff Michael Vice | Apr 9, 2014 | Reviews, What's Hot
There’s nothing wrong with a film that uses a slow build to really ratchet up the tension. However, slllooowww buuuiiillldddsss are a different matter completely. Oculus would be a prime example of the latter. This allegedly supernatural horror movie takes so much...