Movie Raves

The highly anticipated Warner Bros. movie J Edgar, directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, premiered online Monday.  The autobiographical movie follows the intriguing life of J Edgar Hoover, the man who started and ran the Federal Bureau of Investigations.  Watch the trailer below to a movie that is already drawing considerable Oscar buzz.

Production on Disney’s The Lone Ranger has been stalled due to the fact that Johnny Depp will not star in the film without his Pirates of the Caribbean director/friend Gore Verbinski in the director’s chair.  Why?  Supposedly the first pass at the budget, the way Verbinski envisioned, was close to the 300 million mark.  Disney

What do we really think of 3D?  Is it a gimmick or does 3D technology have a legitimate place in the movie going experience?

Hollywood use to love biblical epic movies, for example, King David, Samson and Delilah, and The Ten Commandments.  But not so much anymore.  Gone are the days when old testament stories made for good films.  Well rumor has it that a David and Goliath film, directed by Scott Derrickson, is now in pre-production.  The film is

Is it a remake if you never saw the original film?

Check out the trailer for the inspiring true story of one man’s mission, played by Gerard Butler, to save abandon children in the war torn country of Sudan, hitting theaters September 23rd.

What Jurassic Park did for the likeness and realness of CG on the big screen, Rise of the Planet of the Apes will do the same for Motion Capture technology.  The life-like detail that was seen in the MOCAP apes was too real most of the time.   We have come a long way since the

It’s a bit of a slow weekend for movies opening this weekend. Most all of the summer blockbusters have come and gone by now as we head into the first week of school for many kids. Starting out our list is Conan the Barbarian a retake of the 1982 epic classic that originally starred the

In case you are wondering, GI Joe 2: Retaliation has started filming in Louisiana this month.  There is a lot of buzz behind this movie, not necessarily cause we are all dying to see the sequel but because of the cast and new director that have signed on to bring this film to life  in

The results are in, and it looks like Rise of the Planet of the Apes remained in the top spot at the box office over the weekend with $27 Million in sales. A surprising second place (to me at least) was The Help with $26 Million in sales. A much smaller budget, the feel good