The Top Five Found Footage and Faux Documentary Films - CinemaNerdz - Part 171
The Top Five Found Footage and Faux Documentary Films
[pullquote_right]“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.” – Mark Twain[/pullquote_right] Found footage/faux documentary films have become insanely popular over the course of the last decade, some made with big budgets and familiar faces, others on kite string budgets with whomever the director/producers could convince to h...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Tony Stark Lives Again in Iron Man 3
Happy Halloween, everyone! It’s the time for candy, costumes, trick-or-treating, parties, and watching horror and monster movies. On the Trailer Trashin’ docket this week is the first trailer for a film that’s sure to inspire a lot of Halloween costumes next year: Iron Man 3, the first post-Avengers film from Marvel Studios. Premise: When an enemy disrupts that which industrialis...[Read More]
The 10 Best Zombie Movies Ever Made
Is there anyone out there that doesn’t enjoy a good zombie movie? The infiltration of zombies into our popular culture and continued success of the cinema of the undead suggests that there isn’t. While zombie cinema is a genre that owes its beginning to the seminal Night of the Living Dead in the late 1960s, it’s also one that has shown remarkable growth over the last few years as renewed interest...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: No Films are New Films; Newcomers Can’t Topple the Favorites
With three major new releases, it is a little surprising that only one ended up in the top three, and barely at that. Cloud Atlas, with an estimated $9.4 million, was the highest grossing of the new releases, but the ambitious multi-era epic only placed third overall, behind the current favorites Argo (an estimated $12.4 million) and Hotel Transylvania (an estimated $9.5 million). While grosses ar...[Read More]
The Top Five Exorcism and Possession Films
For ages mankind has held the belief that in the aether resides an evil with the ability to enter our physical realm and possess a human being, occasionally giving it superhuman abilities: ESP, or knowing the unknowable, and telekinesis being the most commonly documented examples of this most hostile of takeovers. During the 20th century, as well as the 21st, the theme of possession by an evil ent...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Tom Cruise versus Werner Herzog in Jack Reacher
This week’s installment of Trailer Trashin’ examines the second trailer for Christopher McQuarrie’s upcoming book-adapted thriller Jack Reacher. Premise: In an innocent heartland city, five people are shot dead by an expert sniper. The police quickly identify and arrest the culprit, and build a slam-dunk case. But the accused man claims he’s innocent and says “Get Jack Reac...[Read More]
Fun Size Stars Visit Mall Of America!
On the morning of Saturday, October 20, 2012, the stars of the new Paramount Pictures comedy Fun Size, Victoria Justice and Thomas Mann, joined special guest Carly Rae Jepsen at the Mall of America for a suprise appearance at the Nickelodeon Universe in celebration of the opening of Fun Size this Friday, October 26th. See the gallery below for photos of the event! Fans waited outside, some standin...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Paranormal Activity 4 On Top, But Only Finds Ghosts of Its Former Success
For a movie costing only $5 million, a weekend estimate of $30.2 million would normally be a phenomenal thing…and to be fair, it still is…but for Paranormal Activity 4, that is a drop from the record-setting October release of the previous film, which did $52.3 million during the same weekend last year. Despite the lackluster reviews and diminished returns, the fourth film in the franchise stood a...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: The Master of Suspense Lives Again in Hitchcock
With the release of Argo this past week, we’re officially in the season of prestige films and Oscar contenders. With that in mind, this week breaks new ground for Trailer Trashin’, because it’s my first time writing about a biopic, with the first trailer for Sacha Gervasi’s Hitchcock. Premise: The film centers on the relationship between director Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony H...[Read More]
Weekend Box-Office: Taken 2 Holds Box-Office Captive for Second Week
The critics say Taken 2 is a simplistic rehash, but that has not stopped the movie-going public from making the Liam Neeson-helmed actioner top at the box office for a second week in a row. Its estimated $22.5 million puts the film into a domestic total of $86.8 million, a strong performance not only over its reported $45 million budget, but against almost any film during this quarter…with the exc...[Read More]
Cinema Revisited: The Films of the Beatles
Since Beatlemania seems to be going stronger than ever these days, and interest in the films the band made has peaked yet again (the Magical Mystery Tour film joins Yellow Submarine as a new DVD release from the band’s catalog this year), it’s easy for a film-obsessed Beatlefan to to get a little nostalgic regarding the film career of the Fab Four (you know, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Har...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Saddle Up with the Lone Ranger
It may only be the beginning of October, but it’s never too early for the studios to start hyping their slate of 2013 movies. On this week’s installment of Trailer Trashin’, I aim my film journalism six-guns at the first trailer for next summer’s The Lone Ranger. Premise: Native American spirit warrior Tonto (Johnny Depp) recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid...[Read More]