While critics and audiences praised The Iron Giant when it arrived in theaters back in 1999, it wasn’t considered a box office success, with a budget of $70-$80 million and a box office take of $31.3 million. Through home video…
While Now You See Me wasn’t exactly a blockbuster, the film grossed $351.7 million, four times as much as its $75 million budget. It’s likely the film would have grossed more if they hadn’t filled the cast with such high priced talent. A sequel came as no surprise. With Jon M. Chu (Step Up 2: The Streets, Justin Bieber: Never Say Never) taking over directing duties from Louis Leterrier, this is a flashier affair, reminiscent of the “Ocean’s” films.
Originally broadcast on French television and later released in theaters, The Immortal Story was Orson Welles’ first color film and his last completed fictional feature. An adaptation of a story by Out of Africa author Isak Dinesen, Welles cast himself…
Hard Target 2 finds a disgraced mixed martial artist is forced into a deadly game of cat and mouse in the jungles of Thailand. A direct-to-video ‘sequel’ to the 1993 film that saw Jean-Claude Van Damme in the lead role,…
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, British cinema gave rise to a movement dubbed “kitchen sink realism.” Fueled by anger and disillusionment with modern society, these films generally depicted working class Britons living in harsh conditions, dealing with difficult…
An adaptation of Stephen King’s novel, 11.22.63 benefits from a strong cast and a mini-series structure that allows for ample story and character development, while ensuring that we never forget about the event central to the story, the countdown at…
Part prequel, part sequel, The Huntsman: Winter’s War suffers from a serious identity crisis. Opening as a prequel to the 2012 film Snow White and the Huntsman it quickly turns into a sequel instead. It soon becomes clear that the…
Nominated for seven Oscars, winner of three, forever having reached iconic status for her role opposite Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca, Ingrid Bergman kept everything. From childhood diaries, letters wrote and received, as well as her own home movies, Bergman kept…
Based on the DC Comics character of the same name, and developed by Ali Adler, Greg Berlanti and Andrew Kreisberg, Supergirl stars Melissa Benoist (Glee) in the lead role. While the series had some growing pains at the start, Benoist…
James Spader (Boston Legal, The Practice) first gained notice during the 1980’s, arrogant and eccentric characters in films such as Pretty in Pink, Less Than Zero, Wall Street and Sex, Lies, and Videotape, for which he received the Best Actor…