That Other Alien Invasion Movie
Over the past couple of decades, this four-day holiday weekend has been one of the busiest moviegoing weekends of the year and after three weeks at #1 and having grossed over $450 million, it seems like a good time for…
Superheroes Too Big For TV
Despite what seemed like overwhelmingly good news for Marvel Enterprises lately — including the record-breaking success of The Avengers as it remained the best-selling movie three weekends in a row and Avengers vs. X-Men topping the comic book charts —…
Samuel L. Jackson Presents
This year the BET AWARDS 12 (#BETAWARDS) will be ‘Too Big To Miss.’ Earlier today at a press conference held in BET’s New York studios, it was announced that actor Samuel L. Jackson, declared the highest grossing movie actor of…
Movies That Suck
I was into vampires before it was cool to say you were into vampires. I’m a vampire hipster’s hipster. I loved the original Dracula classics and always found something both terrifying about that type of character. Maybe it’s the fact…
Nazis return from the moon in bonkers B-movie
Iron Sky’s audacious ‘Nazis on the moon’ concept and fan-funded nature has secured plenty of advanced publicity for the project, but apart from a few barkingly brilliant moments there is little to enjoy in this poorly executed and tonally inconsistent…
Resurrection Rises
Two years on and it looks like Resurrection — a sci-fi/horror film from Jeff Burr that the Backbrain first introduced in May 2010 — is on the verge of release. We still don’t know what exactly is being resurrected, but…
Skyfall Trailer Released
Will M die? Will Adele be doing the title song? And what part exactly is Ralph Fiennes playing in the 23rd James Bond movie? The first teaser trailer for Skyfall, due in theaters Nov. 19, answered none of these hotly-rumored…
‘Battleship’ isn’t quite sunk
I’ve always hated the game Battleship. It requires no skill whatsoever and does little to pass the time. In that sense, I guess you can consider Battleship a marked improvement over the source material. Not that it’s any good—of course…
Metal Tornado
The phrase “metal tornado” does not refer to, quite sadly, the signature kill move of Matalder, the hero of the cult Japanese fight program Choujinki Metalder (1987 – ’88). It is also not a reference to the Serbian metal band…
A Theatre Called Wanda
A Chinese conglomerate announced Monday it will buy a major U.S. cinema chain, AMC Entertainment Holdings, for $2.6 billion in China’s biggest takeover of an American company to date. Dalian Wanda Group Co.’s purchase reflects the global ambitions of a…
Ealing Studios
Ealing Studios is a television and film production company and facilities provider at Ealing Green in West London. Will Barker bought the White Lodge on Ealing Green in 1902 as a base for film making, and films have been made…
Carry On Films
The Carry On films are a series of 31 low-budget British motion pictures produced between 1958 and 1992. The Carry On series is notable for producing the greatest number of films of any British series, and next to the James…
The Retirng Jackie Chan
Jackie Chan is landing his last punch as an action star, but says he is stepping into retirement having made one of the most important films of his career. The Hong Kong actor told the AP on Friday that his…
You’ve Sunk My Battleship
Once again, it was all about The Avengers at the box office, as three new releases failed to even approach the Marvel superhero blockbuster’s third-weekend gross of $55.1 million, according to studio estimates. The movie dropped 47 percent — an…
Praising B’s
Jacques Audiard is on a quest to revive the B movie. The French director has won a prize at the Cannes Film Festival and been nominated for an Academy Award, but he has a passion for the colorful cut-price end…
Indie Game The Movie
With the twenty-first century comes a new breed of struggling independent artist: the indie game designer. Refusing to toil for major developers, these innovators independently conceive, design, and program their distinctly personal games in the hope that they, too, may…
Phillipines B Star Heading To Hollywood
Manny Pacquiao has played superhero in a bright red costume and a stubborn rebel commander in movies he produced in the Philippines. The next time he stands in front of movie camera he will play the role of a gangster,…
Iron Sky
Nothing about this Finnish-derived space oddity, opening (and closing) next Wednesday, quite matches the genius of its tagline: “In 1945, Nazis went to the moon; in 2018, they’re coming back”. Timo Vuorensola’s film uses its B-movie plot – an American…
Battleship
It’s funny — somehow, in all the time we’ve been getting our classic-games fix playing Battleship, we missed the part where you’ll call out, say, B-5, and suddenly find a giant, techno-morphing alien spacecraft on the grid. But hey, if…
Super Heroes To The Rescue
After last year’s worst-since-1995 box office sales for the movie industry, the record-setting opening weekend for “The Avengers” – $207.4 million at domestic theaters – was welcome news. The opening that outpaced the finale of “Harry Potter” followed an earlier…