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Trailer Trashin’: Let it Snow in Disney’s Frozen
Hello once again, dear readers, and I hope that at least some of you got out to see Rush this past weekend. This week’s belated edition of Trailer Trashin’ takes a look at the new UK trailer for the upcoming Disney animated film Frozen. Premise: Anna (voice of Kristen Bell) teams up with mountain man Kristoff (Jonathan Groff) and his reindeer sidekick Sven in an epic journey, encounter...[Read More]
Movie Review: Metallica: Through the Never
Since they originally formed back in 1981, Metallica has gone from being an underground heavy metal band to one of the most successful musical acts in the world. The group’s nine studio albums have sold over one-hundred million copies worldwide, they have been nominated for and won dozens of awards, and their songs get more playtime on rock radio than any other band. While the band has alrea...[Read More]
The Top Ten Car Racing Movies of All Time
The release of Ron Howard’s Rush, one of the most anticipated (not to say mega-hyped) films of the year, inevitably begs comparisons to some of the great car-themed movies of the past. It seems that automobiles have played key roles in films of every genre, from drama to horror to comedy to documentary. In some, like American Graffiti, Rebel without a Cause, and Bonnie and Clyde, the vehicle...[Read More]
Movie Review: Rush
Given that both the gasoline-powered internal combustion engine and the motion picture camera came to be at almost the same time, and given that both cars and movies have gone on to hold such special places in American culture, it’s no wonder that Hollywood has had a long love affair with automobiles and racing. From the silent film Racing Hearts (1922), to Disney’s Herbie franchise, t...[Read More]
Movie Review: Thanks for Sharing
Thanks for Sharing is a touching story that deals with the serious subject matter of sex addiction, in a humorous but extremely moving and well thought out way. I was definitely surprised that it could be both funny and heartfelt at the same time. Have any of us given much thought to sex addiction being as painful as alcohol or drug addictions? As we learn in Thanks for Sharing it is as painful an...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Colin Firth is out for Revenge in The Railway Man
The September holding pattern continues as nothing much is happening in movie-land at the moment. But that will change next week, when Rush, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, Don Jon, and Metallica: Through the Never all open. In the meantime, this week’s new installment of Trailer Trashin’ examines our first look at the upcoming war drama The Railway Man. Premise: During World War ...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Family
The Family is absolutely disappointing. I was expecting some incredible magic with Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert De Niro together again. Sadly, it was not to be. You could, of course, sense the old chemistry that they once shared, but all in all it was just one complete letdown. As I would absolutely love to see De Niro play a gangster again in a serious format, I keep hoping that he will give us s...[Read More]
Movie Review: Insidious Chapter 2
Director James Wan (Saw, The Conjuring) is back to work thoroughly creeping out audiences everywhere once again in Insidious: Chapter 2, the follow up to his low-budget Insidious (2011). The original film was made for $1.5 million and made $100 million, making it one of the most profitable films of that year. You would probably assume that due to the overwhelming success of the first film, the sec...[Read More]
Movie Review: Hell Baby
The manically absurd comedy that Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon made the most of on Reno 911! is once again on display in the duo’s co-directorial feature film debut, the horror-comedy Hell Baby. While Hell Baby may suffer from a meandering and muddied plot, it occasionally manages to entertain on a sophomoric level that assures it a place in the pantheon of cult comedies that are impossible ...[Read More]
The Five Things We Want to See from Ben Affleck as Batman
As the resident Batman CinemaNerd (as evidenced here, here, here, and here), it’s been a pretty exciting couple of movie weeks for me. First, Ben Affleck gets cast in the new Superman vs. Batman film; then it’s revealed that the movie will be filmed in the Detroit area – all great news for any Batfan living in Michigan like me. I think the best news is that the production will need abo...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: The Future of Law Enforcement Lacks Substance in RoboCop
We’re in a bit of a lull as far as movie releases are concerned right now, as we wait for the award season films to start rolling in. Of course, this also means we’ll start getting trailers for the movies coming out in 2014. In this week’s installment of Trailer Trashin’, I take aim at the first trailer for next year’s remake of the 1987 Paul Verhoeven masterpiece Rob...[Read More]
Enter to Win Tickets to an Advance Screening of Metallica Through the Never
CinemaNerdz readers have a chance to be one of the first to see the new film METALLICA THROUGH THE NEVER. For your chance to receive complimentary passes to see the film at the AMC Forum 30 IMAX in Sterling Heights, Michigan on Wednesday, September 18th at 7:00PM, just scroll down to the “Enter to Win” link further down on this page and click it. You’ll then be directed to a form...[Read More]