By Vincent Abbatecola Oftentimes, filmmakers become known for directing movies within a certain genre. However, there are occasions when they can take audiences by surprise by venturing into a different genre and setting creative challenges for themselves behind the camera, thereby allowing moviegoers to witness a new vision from a director. Damien Chazelle is the […]
By Vincent Abbatecola In a time where Hollywood has been experiencing an overabundance of sequels and prequels, it can be a bit exasperating when looking for something original. However, when it comes to remakes, there’s something about them that makes the prospect interesting, and that’s the ability for a director to take a film and […]
By Vincent Abbatecola For the last 43 years, “Saturday Night Live” has been a landmark in television. Through sketch comedy, viewers have been introduced to unforgettable characters brought to us by countless legends, such as Chevy Chase, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Mike Myers, Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Kristin Wiig, to name a […]
By Vincent Abbatecola Writer-director Alex Garland is someone who’s made several contributions to the sci-fi and horror genres over the last 15 years. He gave us a zombie apocalypse in “28 Days Later;” an outer-space thriller with “Sunshine”; a heartbreaking, futuristic love story with “Never Let Me Go”; and a grungy, urban dystopia with “Dredd.” Then, about three years ago, […]
Review of “Hit and Run” BY VINCENT ABBATECOLA In the opening of “Hit and Run,” the new road movie from Dax Shepard and David Palmer, we see a scene that we wouldn’t normally expect an action comedy to begin with: a sunlit, romantic bedroom setting with Charlie (Shepard) and his girlfriend, Annie (Kristen Bell). He’s […]
BY VINNY MURPHY With the most successful superhero movie of all time under their belt, it seems that Marvel may soon be taking Earth’s Mightiest Heroes to Prime Time. In a recent interview with Collider.com, famed director Guillermo Del Toro (Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth) indicated that the success of the film benefited a long in-development project […]