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5 Christmas Movies for the Not-So-Merry
Traditional Christmas films get overplayed this time of year so every once in a while it’s nice to play something that doesn’t feature clay-mation or Jimmy Stewart diving off a bridge. For those cinephiles seeking a little more subversive entertainment for the long holiday break, check out these five films. Die Hard The Scene: After […] More
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‘Sin City: A Dame to Kill For’ delivers the sleaze to please
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For Written by Frank Miller Directed by Robert Rodriguez & Frank Miller USA, 2014 When Sin City exploded into theaters in 2005, we had never seen anything like it. It was a resounding declaration that digital filmmaking had finally arrived. The new Robert Rodriquez-Frank Miller collaboration, Sin City: […] More
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No Country for Old Men Who Kick Ass
What proved the saving grace to the careers of these action stars – and also a way to turn the self-caricature, normally a loss, into a win – ended up getting bigger than just any one of them. It gave them a moment of relevance to get some action films of theirs made, but it won’t last long. More
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‘Sin City: A Dame to Kill For’, the latest Robert Rodriguez film, gets a red-band trailer
Over the course of his career, filmmaker Robert Rodriguez has garnered a number of fans for films such as Desperado, From Dusk Till Dawn, and Machete. Fans of Rodriguez were excited to learn that his next project would be a sequel to his 2005 feature Sin City. Titled Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, […] More
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The ‘Sin City’ sequel ‘A Dame to Kill For’ gets a new trailer
Over the course of their careers, filmmaker Robert Rodriguez and writer Frank Miller have garnered a number of fans and accolades in their individual lines of work. Many were thus excited to learn that the two would be working together on an adaptation of Miller’s graphic novel Sin City, with the film’s release in 2005 soon […] More
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2001: A Directorial Oddity – Soderbergh, Shyamalan, and Richard Kelly 12 Years Later
Hollywood history always makes for fascinating reading. Hindsight and whatnot. During a month in which Sound on Sight takes an opportunity to tip a collective hat in the direction of recently ‘retired’ workhorse auteur Steven Soderbergh, there is a further chance to reel back the years and examine a period of time when one of […] More
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Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 112: ‘The Sixth Sense’
Wouldn’t it be awful if this episode description invoked that most famous line from the 1999 psychological thriller The Sixth Sense? Wouldn’t that be the hackiest thing ever? Of course it would be, which is why we see new podcasts! They’re walking around like regular podcasts, but they don’t know they’re new. All right, it’s out […] More
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‘The Fifth Element’: Masterpiece or Mess?
Quick question; does a flamboyantly camp and knowingly ridiculous science-fiction adventure costumed by Jean-Paul Gaultier and written by a teenager obsessed with 50’s and 60’s Belgian/French futuristic pulp comics sound like a good idea? The idea that any cynically minded executive would immediately stab his thumb in the air at the pitch of The Fifth Element is as fanciful as the bizarrely hypnotic and anachronistically beautiful world (or worlds) in which it is set. More
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‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’ is self-serious, joyless stupidity that embodies bad Hollywood trends
G.I. Joe: Retaliation Written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick Directed by Jon M. Chu USA, 2013 The latest blockbuster sequel to a mildly profitable first film that doesn’t actually have an enthusiastic fan base, G.I. Joe: Retaliation is admittedly not on the same level of terrible as its Stephen Sommers-directed predecessor. It is still […] More
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Uninspired ‘A Good Day to Die Hard’ is merely a generic shoot-’em-up
A Good Day to Die Hard Directed by John Moore Written by Skip Woods USA, 2013 Die Hard, 25 years after its initial release, is one of the best action films of all time not because of its jaw-dropping setpieces or titanic explosions, but because its hero is perfectly, proudly unspectacular. John McClane pulled off […] More
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Infographic: 5 Reasons ‘Die Hard 5’ will be a commercial success
The fifth film in the Die Hard franchise makes it’s way into cinemas, under the moniker A Good Day To Die Hard, and chances are, it will sweep the box office. Financesonline.com designed this info-graphic illustrating five reasons why Die Hard just won’t, well … die. **** More
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