The Star eCentral: Movie Reviews
The Star eCentral: Movie Reviews |
| Posted: The Conjuring – Welcome to the creepy house that belongs to the unfortunate Perron family. When paranormal activities in their house escalate from terrible to worse, the Perrons call in Ed and Lorrain Warren, two supernatural investigators. Directed by James Wan, it stars Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson and Lili Taylor. R.I.P.D. – Based on the comic-book Rest In Peace Department by Peter M. Lenkov, the film stars Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges. It revolves around undead police officers who make sure no souls – renegade souls, that is – evade the afterlife. Killing Season – Robert De Niro and John Travolta head the cast about two veterans of the Bosnian war. The American and the Serbian form an unlikely friendship which turns tense when a secret gets out. The Place Beyond The Pines – This film boasts a great cast, including Ryan Gosling, Eva Mendes and Bradley Cooper. It's the story of a motorcyle stunt rider who robs banks to support his lover and their newborn child. This decision puts him directly in the sights of an ambitious cop. |
| An actress for 'Poltergeist' remake Posted: Rosemarie DeWitt must've enjoyed watching her husband Ron Livingston get haunted in The Conjuring, as she's in early talks to star in her own horror movie – MGM's Poltergeist remake, TheWrap has learned. DeWitt, who just had a baby with Livingston back in April, is making a deal to play the matriarch of the Freeling family, who move into a new suburban home and becomes terrorised by ghosts. Gil Kenan (Monster House) is directing the movie, which was written by David Lindsay-Abaire. The remake is expected to be more of a grounded, character-based thriller than Tobe Hooper's 1982 original. DeWitt had been rumoured for the role for the past month and an individual close to the actress told TheWrap they'd be surprised if she signed on. It's a testament to the quality of the script and the involvement of producer Sam Raimi that she agreed to star. DeWitt, who just landed the female lead opposite Jeremy Renner in Focus' thriller Kill The Messenger, will soon be seen in Lynn Shelton's Sundance comedy Touchy Feely. She's coming off a busy 2012 in which she starred in Gus Van Sant's Promised Land, Disney's The Odd Life Of Timothy Green, Fox's The Watch and the indie drama Nobody Walks. — Reuters |
| Posted: Seven bright spots to end a crowded, messy summer at the movies. If you've been an avid moviegoer this summer, we understand that you might be worn out by now. Maybe you've got superhero fatigue or apocalypse overload, or maybe you're just fed up to the gills with gunshots and fights and things blowing up and tough guys overcoming impossible odds. And maybe, as July comes to an end, you're ready to stay away from the multiplexes for a while, to spend August catching up on Breaking Bad or House Of Cards or rooting on the Dodgers. But hang on a second. The summer movie landscape may seem as blighted and unappealing as the ravaged planet in After Earth or the zombiescape of World War Z – but with a month to go, there are actually a few movies that might be worth leaving the house to see. Besides, the volume of releases slacks off in August, meaning that some of these flicks could have a little more room to breathe than their May, June and July counterparts, which were shoved out in a brutally overstuffed release schedule that meant anything that didn't come out of the box with a bang was DOA. Note: We've only seen two of these movies, The Spectacular Now and Short Term 12, so don't blame us if they're not as good as we think they might be. But this is summertime, and hope springs eternal. Elysium (Aug 22) This is the big one. In 2009, Neill Blomkamp put a fresh spin on the sci-fi flick with District 9, which came out of nowhere to capture a Best Picture nomination. His follow-up is also set in the future, with bigger names in the cast (Matt Damon, pic below, and Jodie Foster) and a plotline (guy with cancer tries to fight his way to the one-percenters' haven in the sky where they can cure it) that should allow Blomkamp to once again slide social commentary into the action genre. Will this be the rare movie that brings a brain to a too-often-mindless arena? Hopes are high enough that Elysium tops our must-see list. Kick-A** 2 (Aug 29) If the original Kick-A** is any indication, the film's violence will be excessive but also cartoonish and tongue-in-cheek. Like the original, K-A2 is based on comic books by Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr, which should guarantee that it will be as zestfully tasteless and gloriously offensive as its predecessor. Edgar Wright made three movies before this one, and the first two – Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz – were delightfully twisted comedies starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. So it's good news that The World's End stars Pegg and Frost as heavy drinkers whose attempt to complete a legendary pub crawl encounters some unexpected obstacles of alien origin. The film won mostly rave reviews after its July release in Britain – and in a summer long on end-of-the-world extravaganzas, this might be the right one to put the cherry on top of the impending apocalypse. Lee Daniels' The Butler (Sept 26) Daniels is hardly the sure thing he might have seemed after his Oscar winner Precious – his last film, The Paperboy, was an absurdly overheated Southern Gothic potboiler that needed to be a little worse to enter so-bad-it's-good territory. But he figures to show more restraint this time around, and you know that Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey and Terrence Howard and Cuba Gooding Jr and their castmates will all be acting up a storm. The Grandmaster The Grandmaster is a drama based on the life of Ip Man, a master of the Wing Chun style of martial arts. By all reports it mixes extraordinary action footage (and not a CG monster in sight!) with quieter and more philosophical sequences that have prompted occasional comparisons to the landmark Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Short Term 12One of the quietest but most touching films on the list, Destin Daniel Cretton's low-key drama won the jury and audience awards at this year's SXSW. It features a remarkable performance from Brie Larson as the supervisor at a foster-care home for at-risk teens, and has an array of fine teen actors playing the kids. Short Term 12 is a quiet gem that never gets mawkish but isn't afraid to be sentimental. Cretton, who adapted his short film based on his own experiences as a counselor, has made a touching, open-hearted movie that faces the darkness but also looks to the light, and one that insists that family can be forged in the toughest of circumstances. The Spectacular Now Remember when heartfelt coming-of-age movies were part of the major-studio mainstream release schedule? For today's moviegoers, The Breakfast Club and Say Anything and their ilk are ancient history, and films like The Spectacular Now are almost entirely the province of indie companies. But the indie arena suits this film, which consistently understates rather than overplays and features dead-on performances by Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley that make them seem like real teenagers, not movie characters. Director James Ponsoldt, coming off the excellent but more harrowing Smashed, became a Hollywood hot property on the heels of this film's Sundance debut: He's now signed up to direct a Hillary Rodham Clinton biopic and is working on a few things for the Weinstein Co, including an adaptation of the musical Pippin. — Reuters |
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