Showing posts with label Armie Hammer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Armie Hammer. Show all posts

Monday, March 12, 2018

UPDATED: This 'Sorry To Bother You' Trailer Is Weird As Hell And Great



Right now, if you put Tessa Thompson or Lakeith Stanfield in your movie, I’ll watch it, whatever it is. Both actors are on one hell of a roll at the moment, and I can’t wait to get my eyes on Sorry to Bother You. The satiric indie sci-fi comedy has been a 2018 festival darling already, and this new trailer gives a few hints as to why.

Wednesday, February 7, 2018

'Under The Shadow' Director Grabs Armie Hammer For Horror Thriller



Here’s your splash of good news for today: Under the Shadow director Babak Anvari has a new thriller in the works. It doesn’t have a title at the moment, but it does have a promising concept and a star in the person of Armie Hammer.

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

'Free Fire' (2016) Movie Review



A filmmaker most known for dark, often nightmarish, genre-bending films, Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire is his most accessible work yet. Inspired by mean-spirited 1970s B-movie shoot-em-ups—obviously pulling from a similar pool as Tarantino did for Reservoir DogsFree Fire is ultraviolent, laugh-out-loud funny, and jubilantly vicious, if a bit slight.

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Good Lord, Ben Wheatley's Giant Crab Monster Movie 'Freakshift' Keeps Getting Better And Better



Ben Wheatley’s bang-bang shoot-em-up, Free Fire, hits theaters this weekend (my review goes up tomorrow if you feel so inclined to check back), and as such, the director’s been on the press trail. This means that there’s been ample opportunity for people to ask him about his upcoming Freakshift, and the more he says, the more a movie that already sounds unbearably rad keeps getting better and better.

Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Two International 'Free Fire' Trailers Use All Of The Bullets



Any time Ben Wheatley makes a movie it’s going to be near the top of my must-see list, regardless of what genre umbrella it falls under. And the idea of the genre-bending maniac Brit responsible for Kill List, High-Rise, and Sightseers making a 90-minute shootout is more than enough to make me sweat. And if I wasn’t psyched enough, two new international trailers for Wheatley’s latest, Free Fire, more than do the trick—this includes a Japanese trailer that’s totally bananas.

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

'The Birth Of A Nation' (2016) Movie Review



It’s rare that a single word accurately describes an entire movie. But in the case of The Birth of a Nation, Nate Parker’s dramatic reenactment of Nat Turner’s 1831 slave rebellion, one word keeps springing to mind: raw. And I mean raw in damn near every sense I can.

Friday, September 9, 2016

Ben Wheatley's 'Free Fire' Red Band Trailer Is An Epic Free-For-All Shootout



Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire doesn’t hit theaters until 2017, but it’s making the rounds on the fall film festival circuit, and the first reactions just hit after it debuted last night at the Toronto International Film Festival. And to keep the hype train rolling (though I don’t need anything more than “new Ben Wheatley movie” for a Pavlovian response to kick in), a red band trailer showed up as well. (Oh, and there’s a trippy new poster, too.)

Friday, March 11, 2016

Ben Wheatley's 'Free Fire' Finds A Distributor, Sounds Totally Badass


One of my most anticipated movies of the year is Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise. Reviews out of the Toronto International Film Festival, where it debuted, were mixed, but it looks right up my alley, I adore the J.G Ballard novel that serves as the source, and Wheatley is the perfect director to bring it to the big screen. We still have a while to wait for High-Rise, but anytime Ben Wheatley makes a movie, it’s near the top of my must-see list. And now we have word that he has another, Free Fire, on the way. It just got picked up for distribution, which means we’ll get to see in in theaters for ourselves, and it sounds damn near perfect.

Monday, August 10, 2015

'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.' Movie Review: Sometimes Slick And Fun Is Good Enough


If you’ve ever seen a Guy Ritchie film, especially the likes of Snatch and Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, you won’t be surprised by what you get in his update of the 1960s spy serial The Man From U.N.C.L.E.. Fast-paced and energetic, full of handsome heroes and a sultry villainess, and hyper-stylized, this isn’t a particularly deep movie, but it is an entertaining espionage romp that provides a decent amount of amusement.