The legend continues indeed.  Ron Burgundy is back and better than ever in the new trailer for ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES.  We’ve had to sit through a few trailers of Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell), Brick Tamland (Steve Carell), Brian Fantana (Paul Rudd) and Champ Kind (David Koechner) talk about the film while standing on [...]

Dustin Hoffman has always been a perfectionist in his acting career. He’s had some famous battles over the years with directors regarding how to play a role. It therefore is surprising that his directorial debut is the laid back QUARTET. It is a breezy pleasant film about retired musicians that doesn’t tax the mind, but [...]

The year of 1968 was a tumultuous one: Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered in Memphis; Robert Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles; police incited riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. And the whole world was watching. MEDIUM COOL is about many things: racial and social tensions, the zeitgeist of ‘60s America, the [...]

The long awaited sequel to ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND OF RON BURGANDY is finally hitting theaters this Christmas and to remind you of that, Paramount has released a new teaser poster featuring Will Ferrell‘s glorious mustache up close and personal.  This definitely is not something I’d want hanging up in my bedroom or office, but it’s [...]

I did not see JACK THE GIANT SLAYER during its initial theatrical release and it’s mediocre performance at the box office was in the back of my mind when I sat down to view the film in its Blu-ray debut.  And I’m glad I did.  Where some films “based” on popular tales are horrible – [...]

There are probably enough “prison movies” that have been made throughout the history of cinema to warrant (that’s right, pun intended) its own specific genre.  However, once you eliminate all the B-grade plots that serve no other purpose than to perpetuate gratuitous violence or simply place attractive women in close quarters, you’re probably only left [...]

Because of the insane success and lackluster production quality of the Twilight films, I feel like every Young Adult film adaptation since then is at a disadvantage.  For every success like THE HUNGER GAMES, it feels we get a couple of failures like BEAUTIFUL CREATURES.  And all of these films start out with a groan [...]

After all of the delays and all the drama on the set of WORLD WAR Z, this weekend audiences will finally get to see what all the fuss was about.  The film has actually been getting some decent reviews, but most critics agree that this isn’t your typical summer blockbuster.  Instead, it actually has a [...]

I’m always going to get at least a little excited for another Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese teaming, but THE WOLF OF WALL STREET sounded like another bland drama.  Although the story of Jordan Belfort hasn’t technically been told before, we have seen stories of greedy Wall Street executives living large and then falling hard.  [...]

A few years ago, Hollywood clearly decided it was far better to recycle or re-mix old stories than to write new ones. It’s actually been occurring for many, many years but less notably than the recent stream of comic book and other features based on stories already told, already written. Let me be clear, I [...]