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I have found my least favorite film of the Cannes Film Festival so far. And it’s the film many critics are calling the best of the festival. But I can’t stand it. I sat through all two hours of this boring, tasteless, bland film and still got nothing out of it. I was absolutely baffled hearing weeping all around me as it started to reach the end. People actually liked this? How? Maybe I’m just yo [read more]

I thought I couldn’t like Tom Hardy any more than I already do (and I haven’t even see The Dark Knight Rises yet), but this film takes him to even greater heights. Today was the Cannes Film Festival premiere of John Hillcoat’s Lawless, an adaptation of Matt Bondurant’s The Wettest County in the World, about the Bondurant brothers living in Virginia during the prohibition era in the 1930s. B [read more]

Jacques Audiard has quickly become one of my favorite directors. I first fell in love with his work a few years back seeing Un Prophete at Cannes (my review), which should’ve won the Palme d’Or. Audiard is back again this year with his follow-up called Rust & Bone (aka De rouille et d’os). This emotional drama tells of a melancholic love story between two lost souls, played by Matthias Schoe [read more]

Everyone knows right away if they like Wes Anderson and his films, or not. He has a very unique, original style and a story structure that he often repeats, but it almost always works in his favor. The same goes for Moonrise Kingdom, his latest film which is premiering in Cannes, a quirky and fun romantic story about two 12 year old kids falling in love for their first time. It’s whimsical and amusing in onl [read more]

It’s safe to say Tim Burton is comfortable where he’s at in his career. If we would have heard 20 years ago – even 10 – he was redoing “Dark Shadows”, the 1960′s soap opera about vampires, ghosts, and all things supernatural, we never would have imagined something more sinister than Johnny Depp overacting in white makeup or Burton spitting every color in the rainbow at a macabre world. Li [read more]

At midnight on May 4th, The Avengers assembled on the big screen for the very first time (read Jeremy’s review here) and audiences have turned up to the tune of over $200 million this weekend alone. But for the entire day preceding, some dedicated and loyal fans of the iconic superheroes had enough free time (or skipped out on work) to spend an entire day in the theaters as part of the epic Marvel Marathon h [read more]

Chris Evans as Captain America. Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man. Chris Hemsworth as Thor. Mark Ruffalo as the Hulk. Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow. And they’re all under one roof. Since 2008, The Avengers has been on the minds of moviegoers everywhere. Thanks to deft screenwriting and a grandeur Joss Whedon brings to its execution, that film is here, and it delivers. It may not be the most accomplished of c [read more]

Sadly, they went with that terrible title. A movie with the flimsiest of plots that takes the most basic of turns needs something extra to keep eyeballs firmly on the big screen. It’s a good thing Jason Statham doesn’t need much story to deliver convincing punches and deadly knees to the face. It’s all him at work in Safe, the latest film written and directed by Boaz Yakin. The filmmaker relies o [read more]

The stage is set, the curtain lifts, and director Darren Bousman and writer Terrance Zdunich have graced us with another twisted yarn of dark ideals in fantastic worlds set to some seriously catchy songs. The Devil’s Carnival isn’t set in a sci-fi world like Repo! The Genetic Opera, the duo’s first trek into ambitious, musical fables, rather the underworld, the depths where sinners lie. Call it H [read more]

“Hi, my name is Jim, and I humped a pie once.” “Hi, my name is Stifler, and I ingest disgusting things.” “Hi, my name is Finch, and I had sex with Stifler’s mom.” The characters in American Reunion may as well write confessions on their name tags the jokes are so tired. It’s all familiar, the same grotesque peaks and raunchy valley we’ve seen at least three tim [read more]