So, The Hollywood Reporter reports that Captain America 3 will be the previously untitled Marvel film challenging Batman vs. Superman on May 6, 2016. I…
Director and producer Steve McQueen celebrates after accepting the Oscar for best picture at the 86th Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood…
Edit: Updated with winners below. Read my review of the ceremony here. Before the Oscars air in a few hours, let me take a shot…
August: Osage County quietly holds your attention until you realise that you are not just perfunctorily sitting through it, as you would sit through a family gathering that you have to be at -- you really are invested in what happens to this family.
‘Superman-Batman’ Release Moved to May 6, 2016 It will be pitted against a yet-to-be-named Marvel movie. Seriously, what is wrong with these movie studios? I…
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosting the 71st Golden Globe Awards I love watching award shows. Not so much for the awards, but for the jokes,…
When a movie spends its first three minutes on Christian Bale carefully arranging his sparse hair into a comb over, with his shirt unbuttoned to show off a paunchy stomach, you know somehow that plot isn't its biggest concern.
Just as Schindler's List is the first to come into mind when people think of films about the Holocaust, 12 Years a Slave will go down in cinematic history as that film for slavery.
Very few movies nowadays truly deserve the title "cinematic masterpiece"; but Gravity is one of them. You have to go to the cinema to view it to appreciate just how much of a masterpiece it is, and you have to watch it in 3D -- preferably in IMAX, but definitely in 3D. (And I'm speaking as someone who hates watching things in 3D.) Watching it in any other form -- on TV, on your computer; or even worse, your smartphones and tablets -- would be to rob yourself of an experience that movies have been trying to build themselves up to since the very beginnings of cinema: To immerse its viewers in an experience so akin to reality you feel you are amongst the characters on screen in that very moment.
I did an exclusive interview with Hollywood film composer Danny Elfman when he went to Hong Kong Disneyland in May 2013 for the opening of Mystic Point and its key ride, Mystic Manor. Here's what he had to say about composing music for the Mystic Manor ride as well as scoring his other iconic films.
