Looking back, the year 2000 was pretty weird. Y2K paranoia aside, in 2000, Shaq and Kobe were friends, computers shrieked when you were connecting to the internet, and superhero movies were a joke – campy novelties with a thing for rubber nipples. Then Bryan Singer’s X-Men came along. Depth, wit,
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Macbeth
Macbeth, the timeless play by William Shakespeare, is retold once more in film, this time in the hands of director Justin Kurzel. The “laws” of cinema establish that such classic pieces get new adaptations every five years or so, inevitably subjecting these rehashes to the “make-or-break” category. The film opens
Katherine Waterston headlines Ridley Scott’s latest, ‘Alien: Covenant’
[inlinetweet prefix=”” tweeter=”@FilmPoliceRevs” suffix=”#AlienCovenant”]Katherine Waterston joins her Steve Jobs co-star Michael Fassbender in Alien: Covenant[/inlinetweet], the new film from The Martian-director Ridley Scott. Deadline is saying that Waterston is playing the female lead, Daniels, who I presume will lead the ship which will land on an ostensible “paradise” where Fassbender’s droid David, or what’s left of him,
First trailer for Bryan Singer’s ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ debuts online
[inlinetweet prefix=”” tweeter=”@FilmPoliceRevs” suffix=”#XMenApocalypse”]The trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse just dropped, and man is it everything you want to see![/inlinetweet] (This is what you wanted, right?) You can watch it right up here, and down below you can drop your own bombs—in the comments! The film, directed by Bryan Singer, is
‘Assassin’s Creed’ first look – Will this finally break the video game movie curse?
Video game movies have taken a bad rap over the years. Following terrible adaptations like Super Mario Bros. and Max Payne; mediocre ones such as Prince of Persia and the recent Hitman: Agent 47, is there a chance that the future may have genuinely good video game movies on the horizon? With the talent attached to Assassin’s
Mutants seem to age very well in new ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ images…. and btw, Apocalypse!
I think it’s safe to say that, around the internet, a lot of naysayers arose after getting a first glimpse of the titular villain in the leaked X-Men: Apocalypse Comic-Con teaser. Albeit the footage was unfinished and was in below standard quality, that didn’t stop fanboys’ cries that the X-Men big bad
‘Apocalypse’ Now: Leaked footage of Oscar Isaac as main villain in ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’
Peanut Butter and Jelly, Batman and Robin, The April Boys, Comic Con and Leaks… In the history of the greatest things that go together, there’s nothing that can send fanboys from around the world salivating, insides tingling, better than some good cam footage from Comic Con. Our newest leak today
Cmd + X Kutcher, enter Fassbender: ‘Steve Jobs’ trailer
Biopics of Steve Jobs seem to be churning out as fast as new versions of the iPhone. Since his death in 2011, this is the second time the life and times of the tech visionary has gotten the cinematic treatment; the first of course being Ashton Kutcher’s critical and commercial
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Thrilling in every way but one, “X-Men: Days of Future Past” is the technically virtuous, wildly entertaining film that is to redeem its enduring franchise from its ostensible death marked by Brett Ratner’s butchered third film, “The Last Stand.” If this so-redemption hasn’t been done already in Matthew Vaughn’s 2011 prequel
