Original US release date: December 25, 2008 Production budget: $60,000,000 Worldwide gross: $242,717,113 Ah, the joys of pet ownership. There have been many, many films about the bond between animal and human throughout the years. Few seem to have resonated as much or left the same lasting impression upon viewing audiences as David Frankel's 2008... Continue Reading →
It's been fifteen years since Warren Beatty acted in a film and eighteen years since he directed one. It's extremely cool that I get to include him for both in my March to 100. Rules Don't Apply isn't the first film to feature a major Hollywood actor portraying eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio prominently tackled... Continue Reading →
If you missed it, The Girl on the Train was the first of my 10 Fourth Quarter 2016 Films to Be Excited About. As I mentioned in that column, I haven't read the Paula Hawkins novel of the same name on which this film is based, but I love Emily Blunt (both her talent and... Continue Reading →
The latest from director Antoine Fuqua is The Magnificent Seven, the remake of John Bridges's 1960 classic starring Steve McQueen, Yul Brynner, and Charles Bronson. That, in and of itself, was an adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film Seven Samurai (so I guess Hollywood was "out of ideas" even back in 1960, huh, message board... Continue Reading →
The Movie March! 