Warrior – An Alliance Films’ Release http://www.warriorfilm.com/index2.html Release Date: September 9th, 2011 Rated 14A for distrubing content and graphic violence Running time: 139 minutes Gavin O’Connor (dir.) Gavin O’Connor (screenplay & story) Anthony Tambakis (screenplay) Cliff Dorfman (screenplay & story) Mark Isham (music) Joel Edgerton as Brendan Conlon Tom Hardy as Tommy Conlon Nick Nolte… Read More Movie Review: Warrior
X-Men: First Class – A 20th Century Fox Release http://www.x-menfirstclassmovie.com/ DVD Release Date: September 9th, 2011 Rated PG for violence, language may offend, not recommended for young children Running time: 131 minutes Matthew Vaughn (dir.) Ashley Edward Miller (screenplay) Zack Stentz (screenplay) Jane Goldman (screenplay) Matthew Vaughn (screenplay) Henry Jackman (music) James McAvoy as Charles… Read More DVD Review: X-Men: First Class
By John C. The 36th annual Toronto International Film Festival starts tonight, with the world premiere of Davis Guggenheim’s documentary on U2, From the Sky Down. Showing us why the great Irish rock band has continued giving us music worth listening to over the past thirty years, this is the first time that a documentary… Read More TIFF 2011: Five Capsule Reviews, including “Take This Waltz”
By Erin V. Right from the first track – that plays practically before anything really even happens on-screen – Ramin Djawadi sets the tone perfectly for the film before we blast into the second track. Presenting the theme of Fright Night, his use of dissonance, strings, harpsichord, and organ throughout plays off of the traditional… Read More Soundtrack Review: Fright Night
Hanna – An Alliance Films’ Release http://www.hannathemovie.com/ DVD Release Date: September 6th, 2011 Rated PG for violence Running time: 111 minutes Joe Wright (dir.) Seth Lochhead (screenplay and story) David Farr (screenplay) The Chemical Brothers (music) Saoirse Ronan as Hanna Eric Bana as Erik Cate Blanchett as Marissa Olivia Williams as Rachel Our reviews below:… Read More DVD Review: Hanna
By John C. From last year’s Oscar-winning The Fighter to next month’s Real Steel where Hugh Jackman plays a washed up boxer who turns to the underground world of teaching robots how to fight, movies about boxing or mixed martial arts have been making a bit of a resurgence as of late. So in honour… Read More Fighting at the Movies
For the first time in quite some time, a Friday has come and gone without a new review. But seeing as it’s the first weekend of September, it seems the studios are merely using it as an opportunity to clear out the handful of films that couldn’t compete with the all of the summer blockbusters.… Read More No New Reviews Today…
By Erin V. Last month, I reviewed Rupert Wyatt’s new film Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which I really liked. Watching the original 1968 film again before this ‘prequel’ of sorts, was interesting. Although the original film is very dated and cheesy at times, the one thing that still stands out today, is… Read More Soundtrack Review: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
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