Anton Yelchin
Movie Review: Thoroughbreds
Often, films tend to look at life in a positive light, treating it as being filled with joy and happiness. Then, there are films like the new thriller Thoroughbreds which proves to be an odd character study, that’s also a dark and edgy, yet somehow fun, ride.
Trailer Trashin’: Super Bowl XLVII Movie Spot Roundup!
Well, another Super Bowl has come and gone – congratulations to the Baltimore Ravens on their victory, and good job to the San Francisco 49ers, too. But for people like me, who are cinephiles and not football fans, the main thing that the Big Game has to offer is the new TV spots for upcoming movies. This year, there were seven movie spots during Super Bowl XLVII, and on this week’s Trailer ...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Travel Into the Final Frontier in Star Trek Into Darkness
Merry Christmas, everyone! This column will probably be shorter than usual, but that means you can spend less time today reading it and more time celebrating with your family and friends. This week’s special holiday edition of Trailer Trashin’ brings us what is, and will probably remain as such for a while, the fastest-ever movie revisit, because it’s time once again to examine S...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Kirk and Crew are Back in Star Trek Into Darkness
Oh my goodness, it’s almost here! After years of speculation, false starts, and delays, the release of the first part of The Hobbit trilogy is only a few short days away. And with such a big tent-pole release, the studios are rushing to attach previews to it, in order to create more awareness for their upcoming 2013 films. One such film is Star Trek Into Darkness, and that movie’s anno...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Pirates! Band of Misfits
In my more recent weekly box office columns, I pointed out a few times that British-based Aardman Animation has yet to find much success across the Atlantic except in very rare cases. Its initial full-length feature Chicken Run and the movie adaptation of their greatest claim to fame, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Wererabbit remain the most popular and financially successful of the compan...[Read More]
Movie Review: Like Crazy
If you make a feature-length movie in one month and decide not to give your actors a script, you can expect to see some flaws in the final product. The good news for Like Crazy, winner of this year’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize for dramatic feature and the latest film from 28-year-old writer/director Drake Doremus, is that the movie’s positives far outweigh its negatives. What begins as a stereotypi...[Read More]
Movie Review: Fright Night
As the remake becomes more and more popular these days, you begin to hear people wonder why they are made in the first place when the original was fine to begin with. This tends to be a more prevalent discussion when people aren’t watching John Carpenter’s The Thing or the Coen Brothers’ True Grit, both of which have become praiseworthy adaptations made from movies that were already considered sup...[Read More]