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Staff List: The Best Films of 2012 (#30-21)

28 December 2012 4:59 PM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

#30: Cloud Atlas

Directed by Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski

Written by Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski

Cloud Atlas is essentially a patchwork of narratives thematically linked with minor coincidences and recurring symbolism. With six stories spanning several centuries, Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. As a parable of how we are all connected, each protagonist in Cloud Atlas wrestles with some form of oppression, based on either gender, age, race, sexual orientation, genetics and so on. In 1850, a young American lawyer sailing on a ship through the South Pacific is slowly being poisoned by a doctor who wants the treasure of gold he is hiding. In the 1930s, an inspiring composer follows his dreams while recounting his journey via love letters to his gay lover. A journalistic potboiler set »

- Ricky

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Ricky D’s 50 Favourite Films of 2012 (Part One)

22 December 2012 4:26 PM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

2012 wasn’t a bad year for movies. It was actually a great year. The problem is, the movies we were most anticipating, specifically the Hollywood blockbusters like Prometheus and The Hobbit, didn’t live up to our expectations. With that said I still managed to make a list of 50 films I loved. Maybe I just have bad taste or maybe I just love movies but the most time consuming factor when making this list was sitting down and deciding what makes the cut and what doesn’t. Even with 50 films listed below, I found it hard to not include movies like Frankenweenie, The Loneliest Planet, Footnote, Compliance, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, and Searching For Sugar Man. Come to think of it, every film featured on our list of best documentaries could have easily snuck into this list. I haven’t seen everything of course. Below is »

- Ricky

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The Grey - Blu-ray Review - Clips Added!

20 May 2012 8:01 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »

Liam Neeson takes on angry wolves and Mother Nature in the tense thriller The Grey . a film that goes for the jugular from the beginning and will keep you on the edge of your seat until the end credits roll. Directed by Joe Carnahan (who wrote the screenplay with Ian Mackenzie Jeffers based on Jeffers' short story "Ghost Walker"), the film stars Neeson, Frank Grillo, Dermot Mulroney, Dallas Roberts, Joe Anderson, Nonso Anozie, James Badge Dale, Ben Bray, Anne Openshaw, and Peter Girges. Set in Alaska, the film opens with narration from Neeson.s John Ottway . who makes his living protecting the oil workers by killing wolves. His narration (which is a letter he is writing to »

- Patrick Luce

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The Grey - Blu-ray Review

20 May 2012 8:01 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »

Liam Neeson takes on angry wolves and Mother Nature in the tense thriller The Grey . a film that goes for the jugular from the beginning and will keep you on the edge of your seat until the end credits roll. Directed by Joe Carnahan (who wrote the screenplay with Ian Mackenzie Jeffers based on Jeffers' short story "Ghost Walker"), the film stars Neeson, Frank Grillo, Dermot Mulroney, Dallas Roberts, Joe Anderson, Nonso Anozie, James Badge Dale, Ben Bray, Anne Openshaw, and Peter Girges. Set in Alaska, the film opens with narration from Neeson.s John Ottway . who makes his living protecting the oil workers by killing wolves. His narration (which is a letter he is writing to his »

- Patrick Luce

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Mark Kermode's DVD round-up

19 May 2012 4:12 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

The Grey; Haywire; The Descendants

From the outside, The Grey (2011, Entertainment, 15) looks like just another tired riff on the dreary "man v (his own) nature" theme that in the not too distant past gave us the ponderous tedium of the David Mamet-scripted The Edge. In that self-important dirge-fest, an air crash left Alec Baldwin and (Sir!) Anthony Hopkins to sort out their manly differences in the North American wilds while being pursued by a clumsily symbolic bear. The Grey similarly ditches its mismatched airborne characters into an inhospitably freezing landscape where their interpersonal conflicts will be played out against a background of baying – and occasionally attacking – wolves.

Liam Neeson, who has recently morphed from admired thespian to existential action hero, plays the lone wolf-hunter, a marksman who understands the call of the wild: Le Samourai in snowboots, with a hint of Jim Jarmusch's underrated Dead Man thrown in for good measure. »

- Mark Kermode

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Blu-ray Review: ‘The Grey’ Offers Liam Neeson His Best Role in Years

15 May 2012 4:53 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Chicago – Joe Carnahan’s “The Grey” is one of the first great surprises of 2012, a thriller more interested in the inner turmoil of its characters than gratuitous bloodletting. The cynical bait-and-switch of its marketing campaign is easier to forgive considering the superior nature of the actual film. It’s vastly more thoughtful and moving than one would expect.

Of course, moviegoers have every right to be disappointed if they saw “The Grey” solely on the basis of its underwhelming trailer, which showed Liam Neeson strapping broken bottles to his fists in preparation to fight a large wolf with digital features no more convincing than Taylor Lautner’s pack in “Twilight.” If you can get past the fact that no such brawl takes place (at least onscreen), then you will start to appreciate this film on its own merits. Nearly every person I know who had seen the film in theaters »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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The Grey – The Blu Review

13 May 2012 2:10 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »

The Movie: From the very first moments of The Grey, there is a stark realization that the stark bleakness of the film’s setting is directly complimentary to the story being told. The cold, harsh, brutal weather of the northernmost wilderness sets the stage for a tragic journey of survival. Co-written and directed by Joe Carnahan (Smokin’ Aces, The A-team) and written by Ian MacKenzie Jeffers, the film is adapted from Jeffers’ short story entitled “Ghost Walker.”

The Grey, at it’s most primal, is a story of man versus nature, but more specifically man versus beast, as a handful of oil workers who survive a place crash must battle the bitter cold and a relentless and hungry pack of wolves for survival. Led by Ottway, the group of men must comes to terms with each other and their own demons as they witness their own numbers gradually decline by »

- Travis Keune

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Blu-ray Review: The Grey

12 May 2012 4:02 AM, PDT | Blogomatic3000 | See recent Blogomatic3000 news »

The Grey

Review by Dan Clark of Movie Revolt

Stars: Liam Neeson, Dallas Roberts, James Badge Dale, Dermot Mulroney, Frank Grillo | Written by Joe Carnahan, Ian Mackenzie Jeffers | Directed by Joe Carnahan

Liam Neeson has had an interesting career trajectory. He has gone from a highly respected dramatic actor to a highly respected action star. Typically the path is the other way around. However the credibility he brings as an actor provides a level of reverence to a project that may have not existed otherwise. The latest example of this is The Grey. Though I think this may have been an example of how his new found bravado as an action star could cause a large misconception of what type of movie The Grey is. Some may see the ads for this film and think they are about to watch Taken with wolves, but they are in fact about to »

- Guest

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Blu-ray, DVD Release: The Grey

20 March 2012 12:46 PM, PDT | Disc Dish | See recent Disc Dish news »

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: May 22, 2012

Price: DVD $29.98, Blu-ray/DVD Combo $34.98

Studio: Universal Studios Home Entertainment

Liam Neeson (Unknown) takes on a pack of wolves in The Grey, a film that Rolling Stone critic Peter Travers called “a true call of the wild.”

Based on a short story by co-screenwriter Ian Mackenzie Jeffers, the movie tells the story of John Ottway (Neeson), a sharp-shooting wolf hunter who must lead a group of oiling roughnecks on a dangerous trek through the Alaskan wilderness. The trip gets worse when their plane crashes on a remote mountaintop. With limited supplies, Ottway must get the eight survivors back to civilization while turning the tables on a pack of wolves that’s stalking the group.

Dermot Mulroney (J. Edgar), Frank Grillo (Warrior) and Dallas Roberts (TV’s The Good Wife) also star. The movie is the second teaming of Neeson with co-writer/director Joe Carnahan, who »

- Sam

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The Grey Coming To Blu-ray. Combo Pack with UltraViolet., DVD, Digital Download & On Demand May 22

20 March 2012 7:45 AM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »

When a plane crashes in the remote Alaskan wilderness, the survivors must battle extreme weather conditions, devastating injuries and a pack of rogue wolves in order to stay alive in the riveting action adventure The Grey , coming to Blu-ray. Combo Pack with UltraViolet., as well as DVD, Digital Download and On Demand on May 22, 2012, from Universal Studios Home Entertainment.  Starring Academy Award®-nominee Liam Neeson (Schindler’s List,Taken), The Grey pits man against nature in a non-stop, life-or-death battle that Jake Hamilton of Fox-tv calls “mesmerizing, electrifying and terrifying,” adding, “ The Grey is a viciously unnerving epic adventure that will hunt you with excitement, bury you in panic and outright scare the hell out of you.”

Directed by Joe Carnahan (The A-Team, Smokin Aces) and starring Dermot Mulroney (J. Edgar, Big Miracle), Frank Grillo (Warrior, Minority Report), James Badge Dale (Shame, The Departed), Joe Anderson (Across the Universe, Love Happens »

- Michelle McCue

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The Grey and Fighting Till the End: A Movie Review

5 February 2012 4:00 AM, PST | 28 Days Later Analysis | See recent 28 Days Later Analysis news »

Director: Joe Carnahan.

Writers: Joe Carnahan and Ian Mackenzie Jeffers.

Irish Catholic stubborness or that "never say die" attitude is one of the themes in Joe Carnahan and Ian Mackenzie Jeffers' The Grey. The protagonist, John (Liam Neeson), repeats one of his father's favourite poems to make this theme apparent: "[o]nce more into the fray./ Into the greatest fight I’ll ever know./ Live and die on this day./ Live and die on this day." Besides sounding very much like King Henry's Harfleur speech in Henry V, this short poem gives John the heart to keep pushing in difficult situations, while all his comrades fall by the wayside. Do these lines get him through a plane crash, blizzard and circling wolves? Fans of thrillers are encouraged to see this movie to find out.

John is a hunter and assigned to a group of roughnecks in the inhospitable Alaskan climate. »

- noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)

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2012: The Best Movies of January

2 February 2012 11:17 AM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

2012 promises to be a fantastic year in cinema. Not too long ago, we posted a list of thirty of our most anticipated films of 2012, and so I decided I would keep track of my favourite films released each month. Here are my five favourite films released in January.

#1- We Need To Talk About Kevin

Directed by Lynne Ramsay

UK

Hell best describes Lynne Ramsay’s latest feature, her first in nine years ever since her brilliant and much overlooked Morvern Callar. Many critics have criticized the film for the characters portrayal, but they seem to be missing the point. One would assume the movie is about its titular character, but the movie really isn’t about Kevin at all. We Need To Talk About Kevin is all about perception – in this case, in how Eva perceives the world, how she regards her son and how she views situations in her past. »

- Ricky

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Ridley and Tony Scott Put Their Stamp on 'The Grey'

30 January 2012 2:17 PM, PST | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »

Complaint. Don’t leave the theater once the credits come on. Ever. There is a tag ending on "The Grey." If the entire ladies room had not been buzzing about what had happened after the credits, I would not know the conclusion. Not that it is black and white. Grey, it is. I refuse to say more so as not to spoil this thriller of a film directed by Joe Carnahan from a script by Ian MacKenzie Jeffers based on his short story "Ghost Walker." I was so frightened I was unable to watch the screen at times. The »

- Carole Mallory

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Movie Review: ‘The Grey’

29 January 2012 11:14 PM, PST | Destroy the Brain | See recent Destroy the Brain news »

Life and death. The horror genre is built upon these two words that have involved so many different characters and stories in films over the years.  Essentially in every horror film you are waiting to see who will live or who will die.  Does the character have what it takes to survive?  This is a simple idea that is usually made to be more convoluted through the inclusion of zombies, vampires, or deranged masked men.  Yet, it always comes down to whether or not someone is going to live or die.  In The Grey, hungry wolves take a back-seat to a stirring story that focuses on one man’s look back at the life he once had while comprehending that death now seems to be imminent.

Liam Neeson, who is no stranger to playing the tough grizzled hero, plays Ottway, a sharpshooter who protects Alaskan oil workers from any attacking wolves. »

- Michael Haffner

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The Grey bites box office, tops weekend over Underworld: Awakening.

29 January 2012 2:52 AM, PST | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »

Movie box office sees The Grey top with $20 million. One for the Money third. Joe Carnahan's The Grey wolf adventure thriller from Open Road Films, took a decent bit out of of the box office, scoring an estimated $20 million debut from 3,185 theaters. Pic starring Liam Neeson, Dermot Mulroney, Frank Grillo, Dallas Roberts, James Badge Dale, Joe Anderson and Nonso Anonzie, averaged $6.279 per theater. Carnahan scripts alongside Ian Mackenzie Jeffers, based on the short story "Ghost Walker" by Mackenzie Jeffers. Friday - Sunday Daily Figures for The Grey: - Friday: $6.5 million. - Saturday: $8.2 million. - Sunday: $5.3 million. In second, Screen Gems' Underworld: Awakening showed a 51% change in its sophomore weekend at the box office, pulling in around $12.5 million. Total domestic cume for the Kate Beckinsale starrer is over $45.1 million. Performing well in third, Lionsgate's One for the Money comedy grossed $11.75 on its debut weekend. Movie's based on Janet Evanovich »

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The Grey bites box office, tops weekend over Underworld: Awakening.

29 January 2012 2:52 AM, PST | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »

Movie box office sees The Grey top with $20 million. One for the Money third. Joe Carnahan's The Grey wolf adventure thriller from Open Road Films, took a decent bit out of of the box office, scoring an estimated $20 million debut from 3,185 theaters. Pic starring Liam Neeson, Dermot Mulroney, Frank Grillo, Dallas Roberts, James Badge Dale, Joe Anderson and Nonso Anonzie, averaged $6.279 per theater. Carnahan scripts alongside Ian Mackenzie Jeffers, based on the short story "Ghost Walker" by Mackenzie Jeffers. Friday - Sunday Daily Figures for The Grey: - Friday: $6.5 million. - Saturday: $8.2 million. - Sunday: $5.3 million. In second, Screen Gems' Underworld: Awakening showed a 51% change in its sophomore weekend at the box office, pulling in around $12.5 million. Total domestic cume for the Kate Beckinsale starrer is over $45.1 million. Performing well in third, Lionsgate's One for the Money comedy grossed $11.75 on its debut weekend. Movie's based on Janet Evanovich »

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The Grey bites box office, tops weekend over Underworld: Awakening.

29 January 2012 2:52 AM, PST | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »

Movie box office sees The Grey top with $20 million. One for the Money third. Joe Carnahan's The Grey wolf adventure thriller from Open Road Films, took a decent bit out of of the box office, scoring an estimated $20 million debut from 3,185 theaters. Pic starring Liam Neeson, Dermot Mulroney, Frank Grillo, Dallas Roberts, James Badge Dale, Joe Anderson and Nonso Anonzie, averaged $6.279 per theater. Carnahan scripts alongside Ian Mackenzie Jeffers, based on the short story "Ghost Walker" by Mackenzie Jeffers. Friday - Sunday Daily Figures for The Grey: - Friday: $6.5 million. - Saturday: $8.2 million. - Sunday: $5.3 million. In second, Screen Gems' Underworld: Awakening showed a 51% change in its sophomore weekend at the box office, pulling in around $12.5 million. Total domestic cume for the Kate Beckinsale starrer is over $45.1 million. Performing well in third, Lionsgate's One for the Money comedy grossed $11.75 on its debut weekend. Movie's based on Janet Evanovich »

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The Grey Review: Liam Neeson vs Nature & CGI Wolves

29 January 2012 12:49 AM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »

Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars

This Review Does Contain Some Spoilers

When The Grey opens, we meet Ottway, yet another of Liam Neeson’s derivative tough-man characters he’s been unleashing on weary movie audiences since Taken and Unknown. He is a member of an oil pipe line crew in the frozen wastelands of Alaska and his ice-water-in-the-veins, super tough-man job involves protecting his comrades from wolves with a sniper rifle. The crew itself is made up of the dregs of society; Ottway describes them (and himself) as “men unfit for mankind.”

We first see them engaged in a huge bar brawl, but Ottway abstains and remains above the fray, obsessing over a stereotypical wife from the past. Something happened, and now Ottway is alone. (Ottway’s wife, by the way, being the only woman in the movie aside from a flight attendant on the plane.) Knowing what’s in store »

- Trevor Gentry-Birnbaum

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‘The Grey’ Review: Faith and Death in a Frozen Hell

28 January 2012 3:38 PM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

In another time, The Grey would have been considered a b-movie, but it would have been the best sort of b-movie: one made with a clever craftman’s skill, pulsing with an insistent tension and featuring familiar characters that grow beyond stock types as they reveal their true personalities. The temptation now is to simply refer to The Grey as an action movie. The film is about a man named Ottway (Liam Neeson) who, with a crew of roughnecks on their way back to civilization from a remote oil field job, crash lands in the Alaskan wilderness, where a pack of wolves stalks the survivors to the last man. As directed by Joe Carnahan, however, The Grey is also the antithesis of the action-movie template. Most action films exist explicitly to reject death -- consider "death-defying stunts," that clichéd huckster's pitch  -- and in doing so define an existence in »

- Russ Fischer

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Notebook Reviews: Joe Carnahan's "The Grey"

28 January 2012 7:31 AM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »

“When we speak of 'seriousness' in fiction ultimately we are talking about an attitude toward death.”

This quote—which comes from Thomas Pynchon’s introduction to his collection of early stories, Slow Learner—was brought to my attention by Ben Sachs. Though, broadly applied, Pynchon’s thesis is debatable, it goes a long way toward explaining what makes The Grey—a Liam Neeson vs. wolves movie from the guy who did Smokin’ Aces and The A-Team—one of the most serious and, in many ways, most accomplished movies to come out of Hollywood (or whatever we’re calling the fractured American studio system nowadays) in a while. It’s “an attitude toward death” that shapes every part of The Grey—from the pacing and structure to the restricted color palette, which often casts characters as wispy figures against a blinding blank whiteness—and that attitude is unsentimental, harsh, and, above all, »

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