Shooting past all competition, MGM and Sony's "The Magnificent Seven" took over the weekend box office, surpassing the new animated "Storks," from Warner Bros.
Bill Nunn, a veteran character actor whose credits ranged from the "Spider-Man" movie franchise to such Spike Lee films as "Do the Right Thing" and "He Got Game," has died.
Director Antoine Fuqua draws from previous “Magnificents” as well as from Clint Eastwood’s classic westerns. The one element the film lacks is a worthy villain.
Andy Samberg and Katie Crown provide the voices for the main characters — an on-the-rise stork executive and a 18-year-old human. Oh, and moms and dads, be ready for some questions from your young ones after seeing this movie.
Frat life on film has tended to revolve around the comedic, portraying a roughhouse, boys-will-be-boys culture where the cruelest acts have no real consequences. "Goat" takes a different, more serious approach and it's a searing indictment of the curdled masculinity that fuels some of the more extreme frat house behaviors that have made the news. In short, it's no laughing matter.
Pierce Brosnan has become the poor man's Liam Neeson, cranking out B-movie thriller after B-movie thriller for the VOD market like he's GM in '50s Detroit. The enjoyably preposterous and disposable "I.T." is the latest model.
Lives there a film fan anywhere who doesn't wish his or her country made better films, who couldn't sympathize with Kim Jung Il when he's heard to say, "There's nothing new to our films. We don't have any films that get into film festivals. People here are so close-minded"?
In the first of many commanding set pieces in "The Age of Shadows," a superb cloak-and-dagger entertainment that's set during the Japanese occupation of Korea, one man follows another through a courtyard while a wave of officers swarm across the rooftops in hot pursuit. Leaping in loose, nimble formations from one building to the next, these officers resemble nothing so much as rifle-wielding extras in a 1920s spy-thriller replay of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."
For time out of mind, or at least as far back as Robert Flaherty's 1926 "Moana" and F.W. Murnau's 1931 "Tabu," filmmakers have been going to the South Seas in search of exotic cultures and compelling stories. "Tanna" is the latest case in point and one of the best.
Director Nicholas Stoller's film sets are known for their heavy use of improvisation, with his actors and writers often ad-libbing the best lines in R-rated comedies like "Neighbors" and "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" as the cameras were rolling.
There are certain actors who automatically lift the level of whatever production they are in merely by being part of the cast. Margo Martindale is certainly one such actor. So is Richard Jenkins.
Allegations Brad Pitt was abusive on a private plane last week relate to the actor's treatment of his 15-year-old son, sources said Friday, as the FBI continued to gather information before determining whether to open an investigation.
