Although it sports a solid cast and features a screenplay by Sylvester Stallone, Homefront comes across as a generic action film with a plot so familiar it is impossible to care about the characters. Homefront has some decent action sequences, but it is nothing audiences haven’t seen from any other Jason Statham flick. Based on
Actress Marion Ross talked to Monsters and Critics’ Ian Cullen about her role in the new indie movie A Reason. Ross is perhaps best know for her work on ABC’s Happy Days TV show but has also had numerous eclectic roles in movies and and TV over the years from voiceovers for SpongeBob SquarePants to
Shailene Woodley is woman of the hour about now. She stars in Divergent one of the most anticipated youth market film franchises since The Hunger Games which is resembles and she’s in all three films of the trilogy. Woodley is the charismatic lead in this book based tween sci-fi extravaganza, so she’s sitting in cream.
The Muppets are irresistible, no matter if you’re a film snob, part of the young male demographic, a grandparent or a genre fan. The films are that good. The talented people behind the films, the guest stars and scripts and Muppet touches are magical, consistently and fulsomely. But there is another thing that keeps them
Inflammatory subject matter, big Hollywood stars and a controversial director collide to create Nymphomaniac, a detailed character study of a sex addict from birth to age 50 that will challenge movie goers as few films have in recent years. It screened at Cannes and word on unsimulated sex and violence precedes it. Do not take
Mr. Peabody & Sherman topped the box office this weekend with an estimated $21.2 million. The DreamWorks animated funny saw off 300: Rise of An Empire, which came in at 19.1 in its second weekend, bringing the later’s to a total of $78.3 million. Meantime Aaron Paul of Breaking Bad fame saw his video game
Monsters and Critics chats to actress Natasha Henstridge about her role in the movie Against the Wild. The weather’s wild so if the family’s staying indoors this March Break week, there’s a movie out Tuesday that will inspire and entertain. Against the Wild finds a brother and sister (CJ Adams and Erin Pitt) enroute to their
I love Wes Anderson’s light touch and unique sense of style. Extreme sophistication and childlike wonder co-exist in beautiful, intriguing, delicious harmony, joys to watch and hear. Anderson’s writing is informed by things of great arcane weight, classical education, art and design through the ages, arts and letters of the past, reverence for his characters
This is an odd one to quantify. It takes place at the same time as the King Leonidas and a force of 300 men tale on the Persians at Thermopylae, around 480 B.C. So it’s not a pre/sequel to the Gerard Butler hit that took comic book nerds by storm in 2006. Leonidas is killed
The Coen Brothers’ classic film Fargo is set to arrive on Blu-ray with a new remastered edition on April 1st from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. Fargo, which was nominated for seven Oscars, sees things go terribly awry when small-time Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) hires two thugs (Steve Buscemi and Peter