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Reviews: Conan the Barbarian Review

admin — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 07:24:40 +0000

The quest that begins like a personal vendetta for that fierce Cimmerian warrior soon becomes an epic fight against hulking competition, horrific monsters, as well as impossible odds, as Conan the Barbarian realizes he’s the only wish of saving the truly amazing nations of Hyboria through an encroaching rule of supernatural bad.

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admin — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 08:28:32 +0000

Man, Comic-Con is over – that was a helluva thing. Hopefully you enjoyed the coverage this year… we tried to actually go outrageous – and there’s still more in the future. We have plenty of video content as well as interviews that we are bringing to you within the next few times.

As usual – discuss whatever you like so long as it’s related in order to movies, TV or Screen Rant itself – keep in mind to play good.

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Evil Dead Remake Confirmed in Production!

admin — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:18:59 +0000

It’s been a large week for fans of Evil Dead and Army of Darkness. After many years and many years of discuss the franchise returning having a sequel or perhaps a remake, it’s finally happening. Set up nuances of this news are great within the minds of loyal fans, is yet another question entirely.

It all began having a rumor that Sam Raimi’s editor Bob Murawski was packing up his stuff and going to Detroit to being focus on a brand new Evil Dead project. Hours later, franchise star Bruce Campbell confirmed via Twitter how the project would be a go which it might be a remake. The very next day we found that Sam Raimi – the person who directed the 3 original films – kept to his words from the few …
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Bubble Boy movie

admin — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:28:43 +0000

Bubble Boy movie

Jimmy Livingston was created with no defense mechanisms and it is looked after in the California house by his bigoted, religious overprotective mommy and silent bullied dad (John Carroll Lynch, “The Next Greatest Thing”). Lovely young neighbor Chloe becomes friendly together with the guitar-playing

oddball, but Jimmy’s mom-instilled worries keep him from allowing her into his germ free bubble environment. When Chloe informs him she’s getting married to ridiculous musician Mark in Niagara Falls, Jimmy styles a transportable bubble and leads to on the x-country journey to declare the love in “Bubble Boy.”
Allow me to state something in advance – I’ve found political correctness to be an overvalued virtue and I found “Bubble Boy” to be both jaw-droppingly outrageous and funny with some sharply observed societal and religious subtext. I’m amazed this button-pushing movie, sure to be reviled by many, came from a Disney studio (Touchstone).
Mrs. Livingston is among the those religious nuts who shows her baby that other religions can be harmful, Television only gets one mom-approved station, and everything favorite anecdotes end using the hero getting away from his bubble and dying. Jimmy matures to become a wild eyed innocent who dines on cross formed soy fiber cookies and enjoys viewing “Land of the Lost” with ‘the whore next door.’
Adorned with all the spiky hair and distancing fake arms of “Edward Scissorhands,”
Gyllenhaal (a a lot more judicious casting choice than the more conspicuous Brendan Fraser) makes us feel his clean-handed joy at seeing grass and walking away in his clear spherical suit. He 1st meets a churlish, controlled bus stop guy (Zach Galifianakis) who’s no help in getting him to his location, but a busload of ‘Bright and Shinies,’ an ‘Up With People’-like worship all named Todd or Lorraine, pick him up instead. Once Jimmy innocently announces them a cult, he’s cast aside of the bus and picked up by a affable biker (Danny Trejo, “Spy Kids”) who brings him to Las Vegas wherever he becomes a human beach ball at a rock concert. Meantime, back at home agitated Mrs. Livingston is reading the false ransom note she’s had her miserable husband compose. ‘From the Jews? They’re gonna want to a higher degree $100,000!’ she screams, in perhaps the flick’s most noisome, but in character, line. Screenwriters Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio are attempting to complete a lot more than shock and offend, though. They’re showing how a bad environment affects our new generations.
When the Livingstons hit the road in chase of Jimmy, they fetch up hitting the lad off his Vegas-won scooter and that he bouncinesses right into a train car filled with Dr. Phreaks’ (“Austin Powers’” mini-me, Verne Troyer) jaunting sideshow of Flipper Boy (Geoffrey Arend), Li’l Zip (Beetlejuice), Chicken Man and the Human Sasquatch. Meanwhile, the manager of the Bright and Shinies (Fabio!) tells it their messiah will look just like the bubble boy they discarded. The Bright and Shinies abscond in pursuit of the messiah the freaks wish to arrogate as their savior.
After being saved by Indian ice cream and curry van man who’s a tragic run in with a sacred moo-cow and earning $500 in a Chinese nightspot mud-wrestling competition with two bikini-clad babes to pay a 97 year old cabby, Jimmy eventually lands (literally) in Niagara Falls. The romance is barely a plot contrivance for the hero’s amazing journeying and “The Graduate” parody coming is obvious, but the wrap-up does caters a few character Apocalypse chuckles.
Commercial manager Blair Hayes does a jolly good job keeping all the components interwoven, though things get confusing once or double along the way. “Bubble Boy” is bright, frantic, clean-handed, occasionally gross, evilly observant and just plain nuts

Shane Black still writing IRON MAN 3?

admin — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 10:33:18 +0000

After actuating his career forward with ironman and helping launch Marvel Studios on the aright foot, Jon Favreau came back to helm its sequel. Iron Man 2 again succeeded at the ticket office but due to a variety of factors, didn’t fare also among fans and critics. It was not anything like the harsh answer X-Men 3 got, but we can safely say that it didn’t meet anticipations.
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Favreau later built the shocking declaration in Dec that he would not return to direct Iron Man 3 and later it was created official that Shane Black would step in as the renewal, but that he would not be writing the script. Instead, Marvel Studios signed Drew Pearce to handle the screenplay of Iron Man 3 which left some disappointed. The last news however, reveals that Black will likely be more involved and mayhap taking on co-writing responsibilities as well. This is great news, and surely news that will put some anxiousness to rest about Pearce’s hiring. Pearce has importantly less writing background than Black and many were searching forward to seeing what the mind behind Lethal Weapon and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang could do with Iron Man. So whilst Pearce was shuffled over to the externalise after Marvel seemingly cancelled output on Runaways, there was a tad bit of letdown.

This Is not really surprising news withal, as Black’s story ideas were going to be applied either way, but him sharing writing duties with Pearce creates sense.

Cinema Blend has the describe and heard some interesting chatter about why Pearce may have been brought. They say it might be due to Disney’s pertain over the Iron Man becoming too adult with Shane Black’s backdrop and that Pearce can keep it category friendly. I do not believe that has a reason at all because Black’s background is just what the dealership needs. It’s more likely that they dug Pearce’s process Runaways and needed to apply him on Iron Man 3 as well. The real concern will be how much time they give Black to create the movie (Favreau was overly rushed both times) you bet much pressure they put on him to include certain cases or plot points that relate to The retaliators.

Bringing Black into the fold was a wise conclusion for Marvel Studios, since he’s a man who fans can drop behind with his background and his previous undergo with Downey Jr., helping relaunch his vocation with Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. His ideas to make the next movie in the style of a Tom Clancy thriller sound promising also, so we can only hope Marvel lets him do what he demands to. The film is a assured sell either way, so why not?

Iron Man 3 will star Robert Downey Jr. and will belike see the deliver of Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson and Clark Gregg.
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A new featurette for – I Am Number Four

admin — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:30:28 +0000

A new featurette for ‘I Am Number Four’ further suggests that director D.J. Caruso’s new flick is essentially ‘The Twilight Saga’ with aliens instead of supernatural creatures. The cosmopolitan movie going deals aren’t all that aware of director D.J. Caruso’s (Eagle Eye) future sci-fi/action film, I Am Number Four, but I have a abstracting suspicion that the buzz for this film will acquire as the release date approaches.

No doubt desiring to expose I Am Number Four to the mainstream, Dreamworks has brought out a new featurette, in which D.J. Caruso and up-and-coming aces Alex Pettyfer (Beastly) and Dianna Agron (Glee) discuss the mix of
accomplish and romance that will (allegedly) make I Am Number Four a worthy movie experience. In case you missed the intriguing I Am Number Four annoyer trailer, here’s a synopsis for the film, which is based on the novel by Pittacus Lore:

Exceeding teen John Smith (Pettyfer) is a fugitive on the run from merciless enemies sent to destroy him. Changing his identity, moving by town to town with his guardian Henri (Timothy Olyphant), John is always the fresh kid with no ties to his past. In the small Ohio town he now calls home, John brushes unexpected, life-changing events-his first love (Agron), powerful new powers and a connection to the others who share his incredible circumstances.
Watch the featurette at a lower place to get an idea about how the director and stars are defining the film (and take a look at some new footage by the movie while you’re at it): I’ll admit that I was connived by the teaser trailer for this movie. It looked like it was a healthy mix of sci-fi tropes and comic book-style action. After watching this featurette, I now know that there will be a schmaltzy teen romance glazed all over the action and thrills I was hoping for.
If somebody had ab initio asked me “Do you want to see Twilight with aliens alternatively of supernatural creatures?” My answer would have obviously been “NOPE.” All the same, by now the trailer and the footage I’ve seen has me funny, so I guess I’ll be affording I Am Number Four a chance (for now). Do you still believe this movie has potential or did that featurette arrive at you think it’s too “Twilight with aliens” for your liking?
I Am Number Four will encroach upon theaters on February 18, 2011. Sidebar: February is commonly a dumping ground for sub-par movies – not a adept sign for this film.
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Green Lantern First Look at Trailer Footage

admin — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 03:42:20 +0000

The first official footage of ‘Green Lantern’ has arrived. Does Ryan Reynolds and his costume meeting your expectation of the Emerald Knight in live-action? A few calendar week* ago we had our first official look at construct art for Warner Bros. and DC amusements upcoming Green Lantern and today we have our first look at some current video footage of the superhero epic. The highly awaited Green Lantern trailer is set to discharge attached to Harry

Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 1 next weekend but amusement Tonight aired a trailer which features our very first look at Ryan Reynolds fashionable action as Green Lantern. While brief, the video does show window several scenes and angles of Ryan Reynolds in the CGI Green Lantern outfit. It also admits shots of him flying, some of the Green Lantern ring’s powers and one of Kilowog, an alienate Green Lantern sure to be a fan favorite.

This might be the best we get until next week so enjoy: The early Green Lantern footage at Comic-Con didn’t show much of what is presented here so if you missed that, you didn’t miss much. This footage definitely emphasizes the more comedic tone of the movie and thence, the comparisons to Marvel’s Iron Man series, particularly considering that Reynolds is the star. The big point of arguing will be on how people feel about the middling awkward appearing CGI-rendered Green Lantern costume that Ryan Reynolds is betting here. I found the glow and burdens to be rather underwhelming, even when believing the film is not adding up out until next summer. Green Lantern and its colorful scientific discipline fiction nature will be testing the other end of the superhero spectrum when equated to the grounded and gritty Batman films by Chris Nolan. It will be interesting to observe the reaction of mainstream interviews to this as we access the path to possible cameos or crossovers in the future betwixt characters of the DC film universe. This is but a brief taste of what’s to come, so let’s hold assessment until see the HD trailer for Green Lantern, which we can have a bun in the oven within a week.
Green Lantern arrives in 2D and 3D theaters on June 17, 2011.
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Kung Fu Panda 2 Movie Trailer : Teaser Trailer

admin — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:28:50 +0000

The cuddly but deadly black and white star of Dreamworks’ Kung Fu Panda, Po (voice of Jack Black), will be back and ready for more (cartoonish) martial arts action next summer in Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom. An official abstract for Kung Fu Panda 2 was unveiled this past weekend, along with a teaser

preview, which moviegoers who checked out Dreamworks’ latest alive pic, Megamind, may have acquired to watch in all its big screen, 3D glory. Kaboom of Doom finds The Dragon Warrior himself, Po, acting aboard the Furious Five — Tigress (Angelina Jolie), Monkey (Jackie Chan), Mantis (Seth Rogen), Viper (Lucy Liu), and Crane (David Cross) — and his maestro, Shifu (Dustin Hoffman), to defend the Valley of

Peace against a nefarious figure (Gary Oldman) who intends to wreck havoc via the titular arm. Lots of slo-mo fight sequences and fat panda jokes will likely ensue thenceforth. 2008′s Kung Fu Panda was a fun, fast-paced chance for the whole family, which paid homage to classic Kung Fu cinema and attested Black’s talent for voice work (something he might want to stick with doing more often — see the Gulliver’s Travels Trailer #2 for proof). We accept high hopes that the sequel will be of a alike vein. While the Kaboom of Doom teaser doesn’t contain any de facto footage from the followup, the quality of animation looks to be an advance from the 2008 film. Computer animated fare generally looks decent in the third attribute and the Kung Fu Panda sequel should be no exception — particularly since it’ll feature a number of scenes in which cases leap and fly through the air (and off the screen, in 3D). Next summertime will mark the arrival of two 3D followups to successful alive pics from years past (Kaboom of Doom and Cars 2). We’ll have to wait and see which one turns out to be the more fashionable title at the box office. Anyone care to wager a guess?

New Sucker Punch Trailer

admin — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 04:16:08 +0000

Warner Bros. has released a brand new trailer for Zack Snyder’s ‘Sucker Punch’ which reveals more of the story. Zack Snyder’s latest stylistic and extreme point action film Sucker Punch garnered a lot of positive buzz by the geek crowd at San Diego Comic-Con over the summertime after coming out of nowhere with adrenaline-pumping

footage that not even out that cast had seen ahead. A lot of that footage is now available cyberspace with the brand new Sucker Punch preview.Sucker Punch tells the tale of a girl held in enslavement who escapes her blurred reality by entering a phantasy dream world. Convincing her prison buddies to join her, the five girls join collectively to fight for survival against and with about anything their minds can think of. Sucker Punch is Snyder’s first original

boast film, having worked on adaptations with Dawn of the Dead, 300, Watchmen and Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole prior to this and it could be his most extreme yet. The official Sucker Punch plot abstract was released by Warner Bros. yesterday if you want even more contingent on what to expect. The footage from Comic-Con, combined with my fond beliefs towards all of Snyder’s work to date, had me sold on Sucker Punch easy but this latest trailer in reality pulls me back and slightly lowers my anticipations.
Maybe it’s the heavier focus on story and dialogue alternatively of pure action and visuals that’s doing it. In this type of film, that’s not what I’m going for. Leaving the exhibition out of the marketing and keeping it to the cool accomplish and mystery behind the fantastical components would benefit the film, especially with its unique appealingness, being about five young butt-kicking femme fatales. I am starting to see now why at that place are mixed reviews for Sucker Punch halting from an earlier private screening. I still look advancing to watching it and have faith in Snyder’s distinct vision.
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Men In Black 3 Script Review

admin — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 04:33:51 +0000

We’ve gotten a look at Etan Cohen’s (Tropic Thunder) script for ‘Men In Black 3′ – find out details about Jay (Will Smith) and Kay’s (Tommy Lee Jones) next adventure. Men In Black 3, established on the successful comic book series by Lowell Cunningham, is actuating forward full-steam ahead. There’s even a teaser preview for the film out.

The film’s playscript was written by scribe Etan Cohen (Tropic Thunder) and stars bringing back heroes, “Jay” (Will Smith) and “Kay” (Tommy Lee Jones), who are ready to save the beetleweed once more.
Opening with an action-packed, jailbreak episode, two evil alien humanoids known as “Boris the Biker” (Jemaine Clement) and his important intergalactic squeeze, “Devil Girl,” head for Earth in order to destroy it and kill our hero, Kay, who is making a defense shield in order to cast our planet from being blotted out.

The trouble, is that the original Kay was killed in 1969 and afresh “Kay” (a very amusing cameo and I hope this actor accepts this part!) has taken his base.
As a amazed Jay tries to make sense out of what is advancing in this strange time twist, all hell breaks loose. The Kay we have acquired to know doesn’t exist and neither does Earth’s defense shield. Our satellite is attacked and obliterated in a blink of an eye.
But, let it be acknowledged, in the world of MIB the good guys all of the time save the day.
A microsecond before the end of the global, Jay is able to escape and is teleported back to 1969 New York wherever he meets a young, energetic version of Kay (Josh Brolin; good choice there). Jay has to convert young Kay that he (Jay) is not an alien by a different planet, and that he’s Kay’s partner from the future Earth who got back to get him to build the defense shield, save the planet, several other galaxes and not to get killed by the time traveling Boris and Devil Girl in 1969 – aliens Kay puts in jail 40 yrs in the futurity.
Sounds like Jay has his act cut out for him. The story is fast-paced and filled with lots of cameos the consultation will have a lot of laughs with. It’s a wild, “E Ticket” ride that has the air of Mad Men meeting Disney’s Tomorrowland. The emplacement of the secret central office run by the stuffy chief (Alec Baldwin is arrant in this role!) is creative and funny.
Jay and young Kay form an uneasy alliance in the commencement and its interesting to see the student teaching the future instructor. As Kay starts to see that Jay is telling the truth, we see the devisings of a lifelong friendship begin as the two brush friend and foe with the agitating finale taking place at Cape Kennedy, which admits a heartfelt moment for Jay.
With cameos galore, do not be stormed if the worms and “Frank the Pug” show up someplace.
Special burdens will take at least a year to finish, so anticipate a release date of summertime 2012.
Men In Black 3 is a sure-fire winner all around.