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12 items from 2012
'Dark Knight Rises' TV spot: Feeling strong now?
28 May 2012 10:58 AM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
Fans of Batman are always digging though the Dark Knight’s comic book archives when trying to predict where Christopher and Jonathan Nolan are going to take their hero next. But as The Dark Knight Rises comes more into focus following the release of a third TV spot, it’s becoming clear they might be taking their cues from an entirely different source: the Rocky franchise.
I’m kidding, of course, but there are a few odd parallels between what’s been teased in the trio of recent clips and Rocky III and Rocky IV — at least if you really want there to be. »
- Jeff Labrecque
From Prometheus to Spider-Man: our summer blockbuster preview
14 May 2012 5:00 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
If Brave doesn't hit the target, a reborn Bourne just might. Here we look at this year's big-budget crowd-pleasers
Absorbed at a glance, the list of coming summer blockbusters always seems exciting. That's the point: these are not the year's subtlest or most profound films but they're the loudest, brashest, costliest pulse-quickeners on the annual programme. Trouble is, despite a level of anticipation carefully nurtured by the big studios during winter and spring (posters, billboards, teasers, trailers, tie-ins, tweets, featurettes, adverts, apps – everything but Will Smith himself coming round to scream taglines through the letterbox) the end result is so rarely a good summer's cinema.
There have been magical years. Oh, to go back to '96, with its headlining Independence Day and Mission: Impossible, backed by serviceable romps Twister and The Rock. Or to resummon 1982, when filmgoers must have wandered, happy and bewildered and increasingly hungry, in a never-ending circuit of screens showing E.T., »
- Tom Lamont
The creeping melancholy of belated sequels
8 May 2012 4:19 AM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Although belated sequels are meant to play on our nostalgia for much-loved characters, such movies, Ryan argues, also have a melancholy side to them, too…
There are certain topics that mainstream movies seldom address. Going to the loo is one of them – Psycho was the first Hollywood film to (gasp) show an actual lavatory on a cinema screen, but at no point did we see Janet Leigh sitting on it and staring at a copy of Reader’s Digest.
Another taboo movie topic: growing old. Death’s everywhere in cinema, from the splashy skewerings of slasher movies to the fatal shootings of action flicks and thrillers. The actual process of gradually shrivelling up and shuffling off this mortal coil, however, is usually kept under wraps.
Even in The Expendables, which crowded more famous old men on the screen than at any time since those Coccoon movies in the 80s, the subjects of clicky knees, »
Avengers Files: Who is Black Widow anyway?
3 May 2012 6:00 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Unsure who Black Widow is? Having trouble deciphering the Hulk’s roar? Can’t tell the difference between Iron Man and the Iron Giant? In anticipation of the release of The Avengers on May 4, EW’s team of super geeks is here to help guide you through the mythos with our seven-part series of superhero primers, the recently declassified “Avengers Files.” It doesn’t matter if you’re a comic book connoisseur or a Nick Fury newbie — follow along this week as we deconstruct Earth’s mightiest heroes and pose the question: Which Avenger is the mightiest?
Name: Black Widow »
- Darren Franich
The top 50 robots and AI computers in the movies
12 April 2012 3:01 AM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
They can be clanking or lithe, as big as a planet or as small as a puppy. Here’s our list of cinema's 50 finest robots and AI computers…
Who doesn’t love robots? Our metal friends have long been a source of inspiration, wonder and fear for filmmakers and audiences. A way to examine our own humanity, and view emotions – or lack of them – from a new perspective, artificial intelligence has been in films for almost as long as we’ve been making them. We seem drawn to them, more often that not casting them as our creations gone rogue and seeking to rise up against us, but sometimes as tragic figures wanting to be more like us. Either way, they’re fascinating, and pretty damn cool.
50. Sonny – I, Robot
Brought to artificial life by the brilliant Alan Tudyk, Sonny is the robot at the heart of the Will Smith blockbuster, »
How Evil a Bond Villain Is Javier Bardem? Check the Blond Hair Test!
13 March 2012 2:45 PM, PDT | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
Yesterday the world got a first (sneaky) look at Javier Bardem as a Bond villain, courtesy of some hardworking paparazzi adjacent to the Skyfall set. And yes, the man who once terrorized the world with his bowl cut now joins the ranks of the Blond Movie Villains. It's a small club, but a doubly dangerous one, because that angelic golden hair camouflages the heartless killing machine atop which it sits. But just how evil a blond will Bardem be? After analyzing a rogue's gallery of movie baddies whose hair colors range from barely highlighted to albino white, we were able to come up with a theory of how a character's depravity expands exponentially with his or her hair's lightness. Click through to see such hall-of-fame blond baddies as The Karate Kid's Johnny Lawrence, Rocky IV's Ivan Drago, and of course Draco Malfoy, and see — based on hair color »
- Amanda Dobbins
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel review
16 February 2012 1:40 AM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Judi Dench leads a starry British cast in John Madden’s comedy drama, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Here’s Ryan’s review of a pleasant, undemanding film…
The filmmakers of the British Isles excel at making very specific types of film: horror flicks, realistic dramas and feel-good romantic comedies. With a name like The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, and featuring a glittering ensemble of the UK’s finest actors of a certain age, you can probably guess which category the subject of this review falls into.
Displaying a similar lightness of tone as dependable British hits such as Love Actually and Four Weddings And A Funeral, Marigold Hotel is a pleasant, easy-going evening’s entertainment that delivers everything you could rightly expect of it. There are laughs. Arguments. Romance. A little bit of tragedy, a smattering of pathos, a sprinkling of poignancy. It’s undemanding and a tad predictable, »
What Red Scorpion can teach us about guerrilla combat
10 February 2012 7:39 AM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
With Red Scorpion out now on Blu-ray, we take a look at what this 80s action fest can teach us about guerrilla warfare…
Standing at six feet five inches tall, Dolph Lundgren was the strapping alpha male of 80s cinema. After landing a tiny role in the James Bond movie A View To A Kill in 1985, the latter half of the decade saw the chemical engineering graduate, ex-bodyguard and Karate champion at the height of his rippling powers.
Lundgren punched Apollo Creed to death in front of James Brown in Rocky IV in 1985, starred as He-Man in Masters Of The Universe in 1987, and two years after that, headed off to Namibia to shoot his toughest assignment yet: the action epic, Red Scorpion.
Apparently fated to play Russian characters – his brief appearance in the 007 flick was as a Kgb henchman – Lundgren plays Nikolai Rachenko, an elite Soviet soldier sent on a mission to Africa. »
Second The Fp Poster
31 January 2012 9:06 AM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Drafthouse Films, the film distribution arm of the world-famous Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, announced The Fp will open on March 16 in select cities and will have its red carpet premiere in Los Angeles on February 25. A ferocious nod to big-budget studio action fare and underdog sports dramas of the 1980s, The Fp is a high-concept comedy set in a dystopian near future where a relentless turf war rages. Two rival gangs feud for control of rural wasteland Frazier Park in the deadly arena of competitive dance video game "Beat-Beat Revelation." The new theatrical one-sheet can be seen below.
Directed by fourth generation filmmaker brothers and real-life Frazier Park, CA natives Jason Trost and Brandon Trost (Cinematographer, Crank High Voltage, Rob Zombie 's upcoming The Lords of Salem), The Fp is a homegrown family production with Hollywood special effects expert father Ron Trost (Mortal Kombat) as co-producer/FX coordinator and accomplished costume »
- MovieWeb
Sylvester Stallone: what the funk?
19 January 2012 1:26 PM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
A question for you, Mr Sylvester Stallone. Why, really, is The Expendables 2 going to be a PG-13 movie?
Sylvester Stallone, you are a great man. You gave us Rocky IV, you gave us Rambo, you gave us Demolition Man, and, two years ago, you gave us The Expendables.
I suspect that you’re not a frequenter of the site, although do rest assured that you’re always welcome. We shall make you coffee, and talk about the time that you managed to get all of Russia to love you after ten minutes in the company of Dolph Lundgren. It was a happy day.
Be we made a pact with you two years ago. You might not know it, but it did seem to be something of a given. Your part of the deal was this: you reunite lots of action stars in one film, get them to do physical stunts, »
What Makes A Movie Conservative?
13 January 2012 1:31 PM, PST | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
Conservatives often complain that Hollywood is a hopeless miasma of liberalism, full of left-wingers who fill the screen with pinko propaganda, even though such content alienates half the audience and risks box office failure. (There's a whole news blog devoted to that proposition, Andrew Breitbart's Big Hollywood.) Yet a new list of the top conservative movies of the modern era not only finds plenty of mainstream Hollywood hits (so many that there's an even longer honorable-mention list on the side) but also plenty of films made by liberal directors and stars. Which suggests that ideology in movies is a much more ambiguous area than Hollywood's critics, from right or left, would acknowledge.
The list, made by Nile Gardiner at the Telegraph, is understandably Anglophilic; an American-made list might have swapped out "Chariots of Fire" for fellow sports-and-faith flick "The Blind Side," or gone with "Red Dawn" instead of fellow war-and-empire movie "Zulu. »
- Gary Susman
Doctor Fooled By Weathers' Death Scene
10 January 2012 8:06 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Carl Weathers' famous death scene in Rocky IV was so convincing, an onset medic feared the actor had been seriously injured.
Weathers' character Apollo Creed was killed off in the 1985 installment of the boxing franchise after suffering fatal punches during a bout with a Russian rival, played by Dolph Lundgren.
Cinema audiences were left shocked by the graphic and realistic nature of the scene, as Creed is shown flat out on the canvas convulsing after a knockdown.
And Weathers has now revealed the scene was so authentic, an onset doctor thought the actor had suffered a serious head injury.
Speaking on The Biography Channel documentary The Rocky Saga: Going The Distance, Weathers says, "I thought, well Apollo goes down - number one, I don't want to catch myself, 'cause that gives it away.
"And then I was doing this little twitching as I went down and the doctor really thought I'd got taken out. He came running up to me - 'Are you okay, are you alright?'. (I replied) 'Yeah, man!'. He saw the twitching and thought I got tagged, man. It worked, it worked." »
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