First Hercules trailer lets us know exactly who it’s about
I’ve already dubbed the first Hercules that came this year as the worst movie of the year (a crown it still holds), but the ...
Tag: Historical
Reviews
Review: Pompeii
I’m all for a mixing of genres. Comedy/horror? Golden. Dramatic comedy? Awesome. Sci-fi/action? Great. It usually works for the best. You get a ...
Trailers
First trailer for Cesar Chavez, starring Michael Pena
Latinos don’t have a lot of widely accepted historical icons. While we have our own, few have their names reach outside the Latino ...
First image from WWII tank film Fury rolls in
David Ayer’s Fury is a WWII movie about a group of soldiers who take their tank Fury behind enemy lines in a deadly ...
Trailers
Second trailer for Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
I’m not a guy who’s instantly drawn to biopics or films with Idris Elba in them, so I’m a little weary of the ...
NYFF Review: The Missing Picture
At last year’s New York Asian Film Festival I saw a documentary called Golden Slumbers, which focused on the lost cinema of Cambodia. ...
Trailers
First trailer for JFK assassination film, Parkland
Following up on the poster and images released a few days ago, the first trailer for Parkland takes us inside Parkland Hospital during JFK’s ...
First look and poster for JFK film Parkland
We haven’t done much reporting on Parkland because there hasn’t been much to report on. The film has been pretty quiet, but with the ...
Reviews
Review: Lee Daniels’ The Butler
Lee Daniels is known to be an envelope pusher, for better (Precious) or for worse (The Paperboy). When it was announced that he’d ...
A clip from The Act of Killing on history’s winners
The Act of Killing is one of my picks for best films of 2013. It’s a disturbing and yet fascinating documentary in which ...
Idris Elba’s Mandela biopic gets a fancy trailer
I’m surprised there’s not been a full-blown ‘biopic’ until now. We’ve had our TV movies and Invictus, but Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom seems ...
Reviews
Japan Cuts Review: The Floating Castle
There’s inherent drama in stories about impossible odds, and some of the better one involve samurais in Feudal Japan. In Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, ...