So does Alejandro Jodorowsky’s unreleased film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune deserve its reputation as the best unreleased film of all time? Documentarian Frank Pavich attempts to set the record straight in Jodorowsky’s Dune, a riveting look at the man’s life from childhood to his cinematic grand folly. “Jodo” had arranged for some of the
Three Days in Havana is a terrific crime thriller set in exotic Havana, where a Canadian businessman finds himself in life threatening danger. Gil Bellows (Parkland, Vegas, Ally McBeal, and The Shawshank Redemption) befriends a drugged out British expat (Greg Wise) who has a knack for drawing trouble. Together they attempt to navigate the dangerous
With The Wolf of Wall Street, director Martin Scorsese has created a movie the audience either loves or completely hates. The film pushes the limits of just about everything you can and can’t do in a big-budget Hollywood film and seems to celebrate debauchery, or at least how it was defined by the 1980’s stock
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