“Violent Night” is one of the Yuletide season’s most delightful surprises, not just for what it gets right but also for the many ways the whole production could have gone very, very wrong.
For starters, it’s a movie about Santa Claus, and for every “Miracle on 34th Street,” the history of Christmas movies is littered with tales of Saint Nick that could make a moviegoer hate the holiday. (“Santa Claus Conquers the Martians” or “Santa Claus: The Movie” leap to mind.)
It’s also a film that demands to be taken seriously on its own merits even as it blatantly references other Christmas classics — first and foremost, “Die Hard” and “Home Alone” — and it dares to mix bloody, hard-r action violence with a sentimental subplot about a young girl’s unwavering belief in Santa Claus. That it gets away with all of this and stays gorily entertaining and...
For starters, it’s a movie about Santa Claus, and for every “Miracle on 34th Street,” the history of Christmas movies is littered with tales of Saint Nick that could make a moviegoer hate the holiday. (“Santa Claus Conquers the Martians” or “Santa Claus: The Movie” leap to mind.)
It’s also a film that demands to be taken seriously on its own merits even as it blatantly references other Christmas classics — first and foremost, “Die Hard” and “Home Alone” — and it dares to mix bloody, hard-r action violence with a sentimental subplot about a young girl’s unwavering belief in Santa Claus. That it gets away with all of this and stays gorily entertaining and...
- 11/30/2022
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
In his latest interview/podcast, host and screenwriter Stuart Wright talks with film editor Jim Page on 5 Great Tips To Being A Film Editor.
Being an Editor is different to Editing Try even if you don’t agree Talented Arsehole theory Don’t Edit You are not your work
Jim was the editor on Shepherd, directed by Russell Owen, which is available on HD Digital to buy or rent now.
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Being an Editor is different to Editing Try even if you don’t agree Talented Arsehole theory Don’t Edit You are not your work
Jim was the editor on Shepherd, directed by Russell Owen, which is available on HD Digital to buy or rent now.
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- 5/10/2022
- by Stuart Wright
- Nerdly
Hollywood, Calif. – Hailed as “a crazy, stunt-filled action spectacular” (Scott Mendelson, Forbes) and “a shot of pure adrenaline” (Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly), xXx: Return Of Xander Cage x-plodes on 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack, Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and On Demand May 16, 2017 from Paramount Home Media Distribution. X-cited fans can be the first to get it two weeks early on Digital HD May 2.
When a group of lethal mercenaries steal a hi-tech weapon that poses a global threat, the world needs superspy Xander Cage (Vin Diesel). Recruited back into action, Xander leads a team of death-defying adrenaline junkies on a mission to kick some ass, save the day, and look dope while doing it. Packed with some of the most mind-blowing stunts ever caught on film, xXx: Return Of Xander Cage features a powerhouse international cast including Donnie Yen (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), Deepika Padukone, Kris Wu,...
When a group of lethal mercenaries steal a hi-tech weapon that poses a global threat, the world needs superspy Xander Cage (Vin Diesel). Recruited back into action, Xander leads a team of death-defying adrenaline junkies on a mission to kick some ass, save the day, and look dope while doing it. Packed with some of the most mind-blowing stunts ever caught on film, xXx: Return Of Xander Cage features a powerhouse international cast including Donnie Yen (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), Deepika Padukone, Kris Wu,...
- 3/23/2017
- by ComicMix Staff
- Comicmix.com
After more than a decade, the unsolved murder of a young woman comes to a shocking conclusion in Secret in Their Eyes, coming to Digital HD on February 9, 2016, and Blu-ray combo pack, DVD and On Demand on February 23, 2016, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.
From Stx Entertainment (The Gift), Secret in Their Eyes is a powerful and unforgettable thriller based on the Academy Award-winning film El Secreto de sus ojos (Best Foreign Language Film, 2010) that will have audiences riveted until the last mind-bending twist. With a star-studded cast and an Oscar-nominated writer-director at the helm, Secret in Their Eyes on Blu-ray and DVD includes feature commentary by the filmmakers, a look behind the scenes at the making of the movie and an exclusive interview with actress Julia Roberts.
Academy Award-nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) and Academy Award-winners Nicole Kidman (The Hours) and Julia Roberts (Erin Brockovich) star in this intense...
From Stx Entertainment (The Gift), Secret in Their Eyes is a powerful and unforgettable thriller based on the Academy Award-winning film El Secreto de sus ojos (Best Foreign Language Film, 2010) that will have audiences riveted until the last mind-bending twist. With a star-studded cast and an Oscar-nominated writer-director at the helm, Secret in Their Eyes on Blu-ray and DVD includes feature commentary by the filmmakers, a look behind the scenes at the making of the movie and an exclusive interview with actress Julia Roberts.
Academy Award-nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) and Academy Award-winners Nicole Kidman (The Hours) and Julia Roberts (Erin Brockovich) star in this intense...
- 1/6/2016
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Secret in Their Eyes
Written and Directed by Billy Ray
Based on the film El Secreto de Sus Ojos by Juan Jose Campanella and Eduardo Sacheri
USA, 2015
Thrillers that contain no thrills aren’t exactly a rarity in Hollywood. It comes as no surprise, then, that Secret in Their Eyes fails to quicken a pulse. More surprising is its complete inability to establish tone, mood, or any sense of escalating tension. Everyone, including writer-director Billy Ray and leading man Chiwetel Ejiofor, does acceptable work, but there’s just no pop here. The bar was simply set too high with Campanella’s 2009 Oscar Winner, making this tepid remake feel both ill-advised and ill-conceived.
“Passion always wins,” is an ironic mantra for Secret in Their Eyes considering what a dispassionate film it truly is. Perhaps a more accurate theme would be, “The past determines the present.” Every character seems doomed to travel...
Written and Directed by Billy Ray
Based on the film El Secreto de Sus Ojos by Juan Jose Campanella and Eduardo Sacheri
USA, 2015
Thrillers that contain no thrills aren’t exactly a rarity in Hollywood. It comes as no surprise, then, that Secret in Their Eyes fails to quicken a pulse. More surprising is its complete inability to establish tone, mood, or any sense of escalating tension. Everyone, including writer-director Billy Ray and leading man Chiwetel Ejiofor, does acceptable work, but there’s just no pop here. The bar was simply set too high with Campanella’s 2009 Oscar Winner, making this tepid remake feel both ill-advised and ill-conceived.
“Passion always wins,” is an ironic mantra for Secret in Their Eyes considering what a dispassionate film it truly is. Perhaps a more accurate theme would be, “The past determines the present.” Every character seems doomed to travel...
- 11/19/2015
- by J.R. Kinnard
- SoundOnSight
Opening in theaters on November 20 is Secret In Their Eyes.
Written and directed by Academy Award nominee Billy Ray (Captain Phillips, The Hunger Games), the film is based on El Secreto de Sus Ojos, the 2010 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film, directed by Juan Jose Campanella.
From Stx Entertainment, Secret In Their Eyes stars Academy Award winners Julia Roberts (Erin Brockovich) and Nicole Kidman (The Hours), and Academy Award nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor (Twelve Years a Slave). A tight-knit team of FBI investigators, along with their District Attorney supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered.
Weaving past and present, Secret In Their Eyes is a gripping mystery that asks the question: how far would you go to right an unfathomable wrong?
Da investigator Jess Cobb (Julia Roberts), FBI investigator Ray Kasten (Chiwetel Ejiofor), and Deputy District Attorney...
Written and directed by Academy Award nominee Billy Ray (Captain Phillips, The Hunger Games), the film is based on El Secreto de Sus Ojos, the 2010 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film, directed by Juan Jose Campanella.
From Stx Entertainment, Secret In Their Eyes stars Academy Award winners Julia Roberts (Erin Brockovich) and Nicole Kidman (The Hours), and Academy Award nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor (Twelve Years a Slave). A tight-knit team of FBI investigators, along with their District Attorney supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered.
Weaving past and present, Secret In Their Eyes is a gripping mystery that asks the question: how far would you go to right an unfathomable wrong?
Da investigator Jess Cobb (Julia Roberts), FBI investigator Ray Kasten (Chiwetel Ejiofor), and Deputy District Attorney...
- 11/6/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Who Bombed Judi Bari? is one of the most extraordinary documentaries -- actually one of the most extraordinary films -- I have ever seen. It accomplishes something extremely out-of-the-ordinary: It not only substantially and vividly makes its point about environmental issues and the sizable contribution environmental activist Judi Bari made during her lifetime, but as it progresses it enters the domain of the "transcendental," the rarest of cinematic feats.
Who Bombed Judi Bari? is much, much more than an environmental activist documentary. Directed and edited by Mary Liz Thomson, and produced by Darryl Cherney (who endured the bombing and its aftereffects alongside Judi), it creates an intense, often amusing, wrenching, and ultimately extraordinarily inspiring cinematic experience.
Compounding its excellence is that it speaks to this moment in the history of the U.S. and the world. Though the film centers on the life of environmental activist Judi Bari (from 1990 until...
Who Bombed Judi Bari? is much, much more than an environmental activist documentary. Directed and edited by Mary Liz Thomson, and produced by Darryl Cherney (who endured the bombing and its aftereffects alongside Judi), it creates an intense, often amusing, wrenching, and ultimately extraordinarily inspiring cinematic experience.
Compounding its excellence is that it speaks to this moment in the history of the U.S. and the world. Though the film centers on the life of environmental activist Judi Bari (from 1990 until...
- 11/13/2012
- by Jay Reisberg
- www.culturecatch.com
With the trailer arriving earlier today, and the news that both I Am Number Four and fellow Disney/DreamWorks release Real Steel will be seeing release in the IMAX format, it’s not completely a coincidence that Empire got a chance to chat with director DJ Caruso as he slaved over a hot Avid machine with editor Jim Page at the Amblin offices on the Universal lot in Los Angeles.Caruso showed off several scenes from the movie, including one set in a school hallway that features Teresa Palmer’s Number Six saving John and Sarah from their evil extraterrestrial attackers in a moment that definitely had echoes of Terminator 2. So we couldn’t resist asking if this is the director of Disturbia and Eagle Eye channelling his inner James Cameron.“Maybe in a sci-fi way,” he laughs. “I think there's a little bit of that. I did some Dark Angel...
- 12/8/2010
- EmpireOnline
The news of Soundgarden's return has created a wave of excitement among rock fans everywhere, including here at MTV News. The group was always a little bit underrated, and though their success pre-dated the breakthroughs of Nirvana and Pearl Jam in 1991, they've always been perceived as a band who was slightly late to the party because their true crossover album didn't appear until early 1994. But when it hit, it hit big, as Superunknown saw the band morph into a monstrous rock combo versed in classic rock, metal, psychedelic twitches and jittery rhythmic experiments, all sweetened by a keen sense of melody and frontman Chris Cornell's massive pipes.
One of the most amazing details about Soundgarden's big mainstream crossover was the fact that the first single from Superunknown was a track called "Spoonman," a groovy jam with a swinging surf-metal riff and an actual spoon solo in the middle of it.
One of the most amazing details about Soundgarden's big mainstream crossover was the fact that the first single from Superunknown was a track called "Spoonman," a groovy jam with a swinging surf-metal riff and an actual spoon solo in the middle of it.
- 1/5/2010
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
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