Review: The Great Gatsby
First off, if you don’t understand that sub-header than you need to crack F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby open and give it ...
Tag: Historical
Cleopatra getting 50th anniversary re-releases
Cleopatra, the epic film known as much for its off screen issues as it was for its grandeur, is turning 50 this year and ...
Trailers
Trailer: The Grandmaster
Wong Kar-Wai’s The Grandmaster has been stuck in production and post-production h-e-double-hockey-sticks for about three years now. While we can hardly say at ...
Trailers
Trailer: Byzantium
Continuing popular culture’s seemingly never satisfied fascination with vampires – Neil Jordan, the creator of Interview with a Vampire, brings us the heady, ...
Reviews
Review: 42
Just to make it clear, it’s nearly impossible not to enjoy 42 in some way. It’s a sports movie about civil rights involving the ...
Spielberg developing Kubrick’s Napoleon as miniseries
Napoleon was supposed to be Stanley Kubrick’s follow-up to 2001: A Space Odyssey. The movie almost happened. Extensive research was done, costumes were ...
Coen Brothers to rewrite Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken
Angelina Jolie has enlisted Joel and Ethan Coen to rewrite her WWII drama Unbroken. The film is adapted from Laura Hillenbrand’s 2010 book ...
Flixist Awards 2012: Best Actor
This year’s Best Actor category had some fairly strong competition, between Daniel Day-Lewis’ beloved portrayal of Abraham Lincoln, Denzel Washington’s troubled airline pilot ...
Lincoln passes the 13th amendment. Again. Sort of.
This is history. It’s not reporting on set about Megan Fox’s tits or new photos from Channing Tatum’s butthole salon, but this is ...
Featurette: Gangster Squad
I feel like I’ve been waiting for this movie since I saw Drive last year and now it’s almost finally here! This brief ...
Trailer: 42
42 tells the story of the first black American man to play in major league baseball; Jackie Robinson. Judging by the trailer, 42 ...
Trailers
Trailer: The Assassins
There’s a certain kind of sumptuousness to Chinese period epics, like John Woo’s Red Cliff or the films of Chen Kaige. Zhao Yiyang’s ...