A 'call' you might want to take. The H-Bomb: It's a typical night for Los Angeles 911 operator Jordan Turner (Halle Berry), taking an array of calls ranging from domestic disputes, to medical emergencies, to the occasional crank, and handling them all with the kind of professional detachment that would be required of those who would have a job like this. Then she … [Read more...] about The Call
Archives for March 2013
Dead Man Down
Directed by: Niels Arden Oplev Script By: J.H.Wyman Cast: Colin Farrell, Noomi Rapace, Dominic Cooper, Terrence Howard I have to admit I had trouble understanding the title. After the film ended I still didn’t get it. But then again, after the film ended, I didn’t really get the film either. What we seem to have here is a revenge thriller that aspires to be more than your … [Read more...] about Dead Man Down
South Beach sit-down with Chris Sanders and Kirk De Micco – Directors of The Croods
We shared our interview on NerdSpan.com as well, check it out! It was a chilly day in South Beach, unseasonably so, when Madison Monroe and a few other local journalists and I sat down with Chris Sanders and Kirk De Micco, co-directors of The Croods, starring the voice talents of Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Clark Duke, Catherine Keener, Ryan Reynolds and Cloris Leachman (the … [Read more...] about South Beach sit-down with Chris Sanders and Kirk De Micco – Directors of The Croods
Oz The Great and Powerful
This is not your Grandmother’s "The Wizard of Oz" At last, we finally get to see how the great and powerful Wizard of Oz came to be. I know there have been books written about the Land of Oz, but I can’t recall there being a movie about the origin of the characters. With “Oz The Great and Powerful," we learn how both the Wizard and the Wicked Witch of the West … [Read more...] about Oz The Great and Powerful
Jack the Giant Slayer
Fee Fi Fo Fum, I hear the snores of boredom! The H-Bomb: Over the last couple of years, we've been seeing a new trend coming out of Hollywood, the revisionist fairy tale, where they take classic stories and give them a “modern” twist. Like, for example, taking the main characters from said stories, giving them weapons, reinventing them as ass-kickers, and casting … [Read more...] about Jack the Giant Slayer