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‘Exodus: Gods and Kings’ needs more divine inspiration
Exodus: Gods and Kings Written by Adam Cooper, Bill Collage, Jeffrey Caine & Steven Zaillian Directed by Ridley Scott UK/USA/Spain, 2014 Perhaps the End Times are finally upon us. How else to explain a year that began with Russell Crowe playing Noah and ends with Christian Bale as Moses? Whereas Darren Aronofsky’s Noah reached […] More
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Final trailer for Ridley Scott’s ‘Exodus: Gods and Kings’
Ridley Scott has made another epic. This time it is based on the Old Testament. It is called Exodus: Gods and Kings. The final trailer from Fox promotes it as “From the director of Gladiator“. So it goes. Christian Bale plays Moses, while Joel Edgerton plays Ramses. The film’s supporting cast includes Aaron Paul, Sigourney […] More
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Television that Home Video Forgot: Point Pleasant (2005)
In the spirit of Sound on Sight’s 31 Days of Horror, I decided to select some horror-related forgotten television. This series fits into the genre of supernatural horror series, being described upon its premiere as The Omen meets Carrie meets The OC. More
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Bojack Horseman is an argument for binge watchingi
Despite all the suggestions that we’re in a new golden age of television, there’s still plenty of hand-wringing and pearl clutching over the phenomenon of binge watching. Some argue simply that it undermines the experience. It’s also been suggested that binge watching can kill. That a lot of us are binging, particularly on streaming content, is […] More
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‘Breaking Bad’ Stars Reunite for this Amazing Video, also Starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus
The 2014 Primetime Emmy Awards are now less than a week away, and everyone is excited to see if the final season of Breaking Bad can beat True Detective – and also – if Veep can stack up against Modern Family. In anticipation of the broadcast, the Television Academy has put together a fun 6-minute […] More
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‘Exodus: Gods and Kings’, the newest feature from Ridley Scott, gets its first trailer
Over the course of a career going back nearly 50 years, director Ridley Scott has garnered a large amount of commercial and critical acclaim, helming classics such as Alien, Blade Runner, and Thelma and Louise alongside other well-regarded films such as Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, Kingdom of Heaven, and American Gangster. Many were thus excited […] More
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‘Hellion’, starring Aaron Paul, releases its first trailer
Over the course of its five-season run, numerous performers on the AMC drama Breaking Bad garnered critical acclaim and awards for their work. Key among them was Aaron Paul, whose work as Jesse Pinkman earned him a number of fans who were eager to see what he’d do next. The news that he had signed […] More
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‘Decoding Annie Parker’ a well-intentioned but unfortunately flawed biopic
Decoding Annie Parker Written by Adam Bernstein, Steven Bernstein, and Michael Moss Directed by Steven Bernstein USA, 2013 The new film Decoding Annie Parker was made with the most honorable intentions, and unfortunately, very little else. In many respects, the story could just as well have been a movie-of-the-week from the early 1990s on either one […] More
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Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 136: ‘Need for Speed’
Friends, do you feel the need? The need for…a new video-game adaptation? Well, good! (You did say “Yes,” right?) Because on the new episode of Mousterpiece Cinema, Gabe and Josh are putting the pedal to the metal to discuss the new action film from Touchstone Pictures, Need for Speed. With Aaron Paul of Breaking Bad […] More
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‘Need for Speed’ has fun car chases, but otherwise stalls
Aaron Paul stars as Tobey Marshall, a street racer framed for murder by Dino Brewster, Dominic Cooper’s rich racer villain. Rather than prove his innocence or reveal Brewster’s villainy, Tobey’s plan is to beat Brewster in an underground street race hosted by Michael Keaton’s Monarch, a retired racer who sadly does not live in a giant flying cocoon staffed by comical henchmen. With the police and Brewster’s bounty hunters in pursuit, Tobey must race across the country to the starting line. More
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‘Need for Speed’ fairly lifeless when its characters aren’t racing for their lives
The new film Need for Speed does not deserve its lead actor, as he proves in a number of the dramatic moments. Even those audience members not familiar with Aaron Paul’s outstanding work on the AMC drama Breaking Bad would likely notice the straining-at-the-seams emotional style he brings to his character here, which is somewhat unexpected in a movie that essentially wants to kickstart its own The Fast and the Furious-esque franchise. Those movies, like Need for Speed, boast plenty of pedal-to-the-metal street racing, outrageous stunts, beautiful women, more racing, more stunts, and so on. Need for Speed, however, tries too hard to be a real, grounded story of revenge and hate, too often tippling over into melodrama. More
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Sundance 2014: Photoset
Read Sound on Sight’s review of The Double. Read our Sundance review of Infinitely Polar Bear Ten unacquired Sundance 2014 films we hope to see someday. Read our review of Rudderless Read the Sundance review of Frank Read our Sundance review of Hellion. More