Oh my oh my oh my. Based on the trailer for “Shutter Island,” it would seem Martin Scorsese has put together another fantastic film starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The trailer makes me think the movie is a mixed bag of drama, with a slight lean towards suspense and terror. It’s based on a 2003 Dennis Lehane novel (“Gone Baby Gone”) about two U.S. marshals investigating the disappearance of a patient at a mental institution on a remote island. The film opens …
Month: June 2009
Empire Magazine is celebrating it’s 20th Anniversary and the folks at Empire have put together a visual movie quiz called “The Cryptic Canvas.” Essentially the painting contains 50 clues representing 50 films. Can you get them all in one sitting? I did it tonight in 45 minutes. If you need help or get stumped, leave a comment and we’ll help. Its fun and your boss won’t care if you do this at work. But if you get fired, this post …
According to “The Lord of the Rings” nerds at TheOneRing.net, some dude (probably a D&D champ) named Theodred was tuning into BBC radio and heard “The Hobbit” director Guillermo del Toro serve up some casting nuggets regarding Hugo Weaving (Elrond), Ian McKellen (Gandalf) and Andy Serkis (Gollumn). It seems the three thesps will reprise their LOTR roles in the “The Hobbit,” due in theaters sometime after Jesus returns to smite the Earth. You can listen to the BBC interview by …
Saw “The Proposal” yesterday, the new movie starring Ryan Reynolds Betty White and Sandra Bullock (review coming next week), but I also saw this on Funny or Die this evening. I chuckled heartily and think you will, too. Enjoy!
I’ve heard rumblings and rumors of the Sam Mendes-directed (“American Beauty,” “Road to Perdition” and “Revolutionary Road”) “Away We Go” making some critics go bonkers with joy and others thumb their noses at how hard the movie tries to be quirky and comically edgy. I have no opinion, whereas I haven’t seen the movie yet (I hope to catch a screening next week), but judging from the trailer, I’d say it looks right up my alley. Plus, the movie heralds …
I don’t give a rat’s patootie if “Surrogates” is based on a graphic novel (all the rage nowadays), because any movie that has Bruce Willis with “hair” should be flushed down the marketing toilet pronto. This movie is and will be pure crap. Mark my words. I’m sorry, but I just can’t get over that cringe-inducing hairpiece on John McClaine. And who thought golden blonde would be a great choice? Man oh man oh man. Terrible.
Wah-waaaaaaaah. Yeah, so Sunday numbers were finally sorted out and as fate would have it, The Hangover bested Pixar’s UP with $45 million. And while that makes The Hangover the number one moneymaker over the weekend, it still doesn’t change the fact that here at AATM, we still know everything and were right up to about4 hours ago.
There are certain movies that should never get a sequel, regardless of how beloved the film is or how well it did at the box office. This declaration can be a tough proposal, because selfishly I want some stories to continue, however convoluted and stretched they might become. On the flip side, I also know that my selfishness can lead to crappy sequels and the pollution and tainting of the original. That’s why my feelings about “The Descent 2” are …
My unabashed love for “The Hangover” is akin to Dan’s love of “District 9,” so taking a page from his book, I will acknowledge my adoration, but I will not apologize. No, sir! And with that, here’s Mike Tyson singing along to Phil Collins “In the Air Tonight” in an extended “The Hangover” preview. Enjoy!
If you simply cannot wait until November and must have your fix of Christmas festivity in June, then keep reading, because next week, on June 16th, Disney is rolling, literally, into Ogden with its “A Christmas Carol” train tour. Yessirree, the Robert Zemeckis-directed “multi-sensory event” hits theaters on November 6, 2009, but someone at Disney and Hewlett Packard thought it would be the shiz niz to chug on down the tracks, stopping in sixteen cities to promote the Jim Carrey-as-Ebenezer-Scrooge …