8 years ago
All posts by Colin Biggs
‘Locke’ Trailer Keeps It All in the Car
2013 saw a great deal of self-contained films released, including awards contenders Gravity and All Is Lost, but writer/director Steven Knight (Eastern Promises, Dirty Pretty Things) has a nice gift waiting for audiences come April. Locke, starring Tom Hardy, ...
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Lionsgate Will Distribute “The Voices”
Lionsgate went out on a limb today by purchasing distribution rights to Marjane Satrapi's upcoming The Voices. The dark film centers around a disturbed factory worker, who hears advice from his pet dog and cat, is implicated in the accidental death of his co-w...
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Monster Satisfaction Giveaway
Love Snickers? Love movies? Well if you watch the new “You’re Not You When You’re Hungry” commercial with Godzilla and post your favorite part in the comments section, you could win $15 worth of Fandango cash and five Snickers bars to munch on at the movies.
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The Male Gaze and Criticism
It's easy to forget sometimes that film/television critics are a homogeneous group (white men predominantly). A group of males that spend a majority of their time discussing their favorite shows and movies, and sometimes debating when consensus isn't had. Thes...
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New ‘Godzilla’ Trailer Will Send Us Back to the Stone Age
"You are not fooling anybody when you say that what happened was a natural disaster. It was not an earthquake, it was not a typhoon, because what's really happening is your hiding something out there!"
I'm sold. Bryan Cranston's voice-over and the beast's s...
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Matthew McConaughey Puts ‘Interstellar’ Expectations Sky-high
When Variety sat down with Matthew McConaughey to chat briefly about the state of his career renaissance ranging from Mud to a brief-but-spectacular turn in The Wolf of Wall Street and his heart-felt performance as Ron Woodroof in Dallas Buyers Club. Not to be...
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Peter Bart Wonders if Critics Can Be Happy
Eager to piece together any reason for the lack of a clear frontrunner for this year's Oscar race, Variety's Peter Bart has put out a thesis: it's because movie critics like bummer movies that Academy voters don't.
"I would argue that filmgoers by and large...
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Nicolas Cage Returns to Form in ‘Joe’ Trailer
It looks like David Gordon Green and Nicolas Cage are going for some serious, critical acclaim with the film Joe. Word out of Venice and Toronto is that Cage's performance is a return to his career best, as well as a return to better work for Green after Y...
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Johnny Depp is Wired In for Second ‘Transcendence’ Trailer
Johnny Depp has been hamming it up as of late in one eccentric role or another for Tim Burton or Gore Verbinski, but Mr. Depp has dropped the funny hats and white-face for something a little more serious this time out. Starring in longtime Christopher Nola...
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When to Say When on Walking Out of a Movie
This week's critic survey written by Samuel Adams struck a chord when he asked "Is it okay for movie critics to walk out of a film (or turn off a screener), and if so, can they write about it?"
Now the answer to the first portion of Adam's query is obvious ...
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