Alien: Covenant review: Michael Fassbender plays android brothers David and Walter in this effective sequel to Ridley Scott’s muddled Prometheus. ‘Alien: Covenant’ review: Recapturing ‘some of the excitement, awe, and horror’ of 1979 original Before we get to Alien: Covenant, a rant about its predecessor,…
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Mad Max: Fury Road: National Board of Review 2015 winner. National Board of Review 2015 Awards: First indication of ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ awards season potential Going over the December 2015 movie awards not previously discussed on this site, we begin with the National Board…
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The Martian movie: Matt Damon stars as an astronaut stranded on Mars. ‘The Martian’ movie review: Ridley Scott still has ‘greatness left in him’ The Martian is the story of a man in trouble and in desperate need of saving. Brilliant and resourceful, he must…
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Maze Runner 2: The Scorch Trials with Dylan O’Brien: Beating latest Johnny Depp flop at the domestic box office. ‘Maze Runner 2’ to beat Johnny Depp ‘Black Mass’ The 20th Century Fox release Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, the sequel to the 2014 hit The…
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Zero Dark Thirty controversy: Jessica Chastain star in Kathryn Bigelow’s political thriller. Zero Dark Thirty: Controversy boosts weekend box office Familiarity may breed contempt (if you’re around the wrong person), but controversy surely breeds box office sales (if said controversy takes place at the time…
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Tony Scott. Tony Scott jumps off bridge in Los Angeles area Earlier today, Aug. 19, director Tony Scott jumped off the Vincent Thomas Bridge in the Los Angeles suburb of San Pedro. The British-born (June 21, 1944, in North Shields, Northumberland) director of Hollywood blockbusters…
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‘That’s My Boy’ with Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg. ‘That’s My Boy’: Worst Adam Sandler box office flop? June 17, ’12, update: The R-rated father-and-son comedy That’s My Boy will quite possibly become the biggest box office bomb in Adam Sandler’s career since the lowbrow…
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Madagascar 3 movie: Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted June 10 update: Weekend box office: The Prometheus movie monsters have been beaten by Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted‘s cuddly talking animals. And if studio estimates are accurate, Prometheus was – surprisingly – more than $10 million…
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The Bourne Legacy trailer with Jeremy Renner. ‘The Bourne Legacy’ Trailer The Bourne Legacy trailer offers lots of action, murders, and senseless brutality to entertainment the whole family. However murky its plot may be, expect the Tony Gilroy movie starring The Hurt Locker / Mission:…
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Scene-stealer Michael Fassbender, Prometheus The consensus seems to be that Ridley Scott’s Prometheus is no Alien. And it’s no Blade Runner, either. But most critics have found Scott’s latest foray into science-fiction to be perfectly enjoyable within its intellectual and cinematic limitations. Most reviews have…
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Samuel L. Jackson, The Avengers The Avengers actor Samuel L. Jackson, whose self-righteous Nick Fury looks like an amateur next to Tom Hiddleston’s brilliantly wicked Loki, has gone the James Cameron way. It’s “either you like my movie, or you have no job writing…
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Ridley Scott’s Prometheus movie. Philosophical question: if God created the universe and all its creatures, did he also create the title character in Ridley Scott’s 1979 horror classic Alien? If so, then for what purpose? To make Sigourney Weaver a star? “How far would you…
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Harrison Ford in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. There is simply no scene in Blade Runner that approaches that moment in Au hasard Balthazar. Indeed, Scott doesn’t even try, for Blade Runner is one of those movies whose reputation rests almost entirely upon the “criticism of…
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Blade Runner with Harrison Ford. Ridley Scott sci-fier and cult classic. Ridley Scott’s dystopian 1982 sci-fi drama Blade Runner is one of those Hollywood productions whose initially mixed reviews were actually closer to the mark than the decades of hagiography that followed. That’s not to…
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Robin Hood: Russell Crowe opens Cannes with a thud. Directed by Ridley Scott and written by Brian Helgeland (of Green Zone), Robin Hood stars Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett (as Lady Marion), Max von Sydow, William Hurt, Oscar Isaac (as Prince John), Mark Strong, Danny Houston…
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Jeanette MacDonald in Naughty Marietta. Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Gail Russell, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Jeanette MacDonald, Emil Jannings, Jacques Tati, Nelson Eddy, Anthony Quinn, John Wayne, and Frank Sinatra are a few of the movie personalities to be found in the May…
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