Archive for December, 2024
Movie
Getaway, the new action movie starring Ethan Hawke and Selena Gomez, doesn’t have to cut to the chase—it starts with one. The mayhem begins when Brent (Hawke) returns home to find his wife has been abducted. He gets a call from...
Flicks
In the new thriller Closed Circuit, Rebecca Hall plays Claudia Simmons-Hall, a “Special Advocate” assigned a particularly sensitive case regarding a terrorist suspect. The actress recently spoke to a roundtable of reporters abo...
Flicks
In the new thriller Closed Circuit, Aussie actor Eric Bana plays a sarcastic British lawyer who ends up taking a controversial case requiring him to defend a suspected terrorist. He later learns he was chosen for the case becau...
Flicks
In Closed Circuit, the new thriller from director John Crowley (Boy A, Is Anybody There?), Eric Bana and Rachel Hall play lawyers assigned to the case of a suspected terrorist. When they realize the case could implicate the Bri...
Flicks
Dan Kinem’s would raid his parents’ huge video collection and when he was a kid growing up in Erie, Pennsylvania. “One year, they got me a tiny terrible TV,” he explains. “But it had a VCR attached to it and every night before ...
Q&A
Ami Saraiya & The Outcome sound like a band from another era on their new album, Soundproof Box. Saraiya’s somber, upper-register vocals make her a dead ringer for Billie Holiday and the gypsy-like music has a real cabaret ...
Movie
We haven’t read the book upon which The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is based, but we sure didn’t find much of a compelling story in the film. Much like the Twilight series, this young adult fantasy series revolves around ...
Flicks
Nerds everywhere are excited that dynamic duo Nick Frost and Simon Pegg are back together again (along with writer/director Edgar Wright) for the final installment of their Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy. The World’s End...
Flicks
Writer-director David Lowery originally set out to write an action movie when he started the script for his new film, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints. But as his characters started dying off, he realized he would prefer to write about...
Flicks
British writer-director Edgar Wright teamed up with actors Simon Pegg and David Frost prior to their latest endeavor, The World’s End. Not only were all three involved with the cult TV show Spaced, but the trio joined forces to...