Every now and then a trailer comes along and offers a glimpse of a movie you had no idea you wanted to see, if only because you wouldn’t have thought it could exist in a million years. Case in point: the trailer for this Australian thriller In Her Skin . Until now, I had no idea that there was any hope of getting a Lifetime movie starring Guy Pearce and Sam Neill. But here we are!
In case you missed it the first time , Michael Bay has recently reiterated that, like most of us, he realizes that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was pretty awful and again vowed that Transformers: Dark of the Moon will be the opposite of that. But does this candor about the last film mean we can take Bay at his word? To investigate, let’s take a look back at what Bay was saying about the last film before the reviews came in.
Sheen had already mentioned the poetry in his fingertips , but now we’ve got some evidence to back that up. GQ has unearthed a self-published book of poetry that Sheen put out in the early 90’s. Some of it serves as a somber (and probably overdue) counterpoint to his recent interviews. And then there’s that one where the character peels off his latex Charlie Sheen mask to reveal “the rotted skull of President Lincoln.”
The great tragedy in Drive Angry 3D ‘s lackluster opening last weekend isn’t that the B-movie homage didn’t make more money, but that more people didn’t get to see William Fichtner steal the show as The Accountant, the no-nonsense supernatural CPA from hell doggedly tracking Nic Cage’s every move on earth. Fichtner, one of Hollywood’s most beloved character actors, gives a master class in added-value acting in the film, which he discussed with Movieline last week before musing further on muscle cars, The Godfather Part II , and his soap opera beginnings.
Matt Damon is back in theaters this weekend as a rising political star who accidentally discovers the secrets of the way the world works in the latest Philip K. Dick adaptation, The Adjustment Bureau . But how did Damon get to the point of go-to action star/comedy television star after an early career of sensitive dramatic roles?
Matt Damon is back in theaters this weekend as a rising political star who accidentally discovers the secrets of the way the world works in the latest Philip K. Dick adaptation, The Adjustment Bureau . But how did Damon get to the point of go-to action star/comedy television star after an early career of sensitive dramatic roles?
When the first trailer for Captain America: The First Avenger debuted during the Super Bowl last month, Movieline HQ was buzzing with the blink-and-you-missed-him glimpse at Hugo Weaving-as-Red Skull . That skull! It was so… red . Now, courtesy of EW , comes the first official look at the villainous Nazi supersoldier — no screencapping necessary! So, how does he look?
I usually avoid trailers for martial arts film altogether because, let’s face it, it’s not too hard to make even the worse film in this genre look mind-blowing and cool in an two-minute trailer. And while the fight choreography in Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zen indeed looks awesome, I was struck more by the chaotic opening war scene and the gorgeous period detail here, both of which set this one way ahead of the pack. At least as far as trailers go. Also, the director of Infernal Affairs , the original Hong Kong version of The Departed , is in charge here, so maybe we can expect a fun, convoluted narrative to compliment the action?
Last week, news broke that Michael Bay would take high-concept excess to a new level by producing Zombies vs. Robots . Then, just one week later, Jonah Hill decided he wanted to take it to an even newer level by directing The Kitchen Sink , which involves zombies and vampires teaming up to fight aliens . All right, Hollywood: Intervention time.
Slooooooooow clap for Jon Cryer, everyone! The now-kinda-unemployed Two and a Half Men star has kept quiet about Charlie Sheen’s hourly media vomit sessions , but he’s broken that silence for an obvious-but-hilarious bit of parody with Ellen DeGeneres. Click ahead to see Cryer working hard at his new day job with Ellen , then imagine how he had to listen to Sheen’s ramblings for eight seasons. Guy deserves a medal. Or some tiger blood.