After making a splash with folks over at Comic Con last month, the new superhero action comedy “Kick-Ass” has finally been picked up by a U.S. distributor. Lionsgate announced it plans to give the Mark Millar (“Wanted”) comic-book-based film a wide release next year. Directed by Matthew Vaughn (“Layer Cake” and “Stardust”), “Kick-Ass” is the [...]
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Review: The Hurt Locker
Though there have been a few attempts to quickly turn over a good film about the Iraq War or a similar conflict (“The Lucky Ones,” “In the Valley of Elah,” “Jarhead,” “The Kingdom”), none achieve on so many levels and try to capture the true experience of today’s soldiers like “The Hurt Locker.” Former embedded [...]
Archive Review: Ran (1985)
The height of Akira Kurosawa’s career as a masterful Japanese filmmaker might have been in the ’50s with “Roshomon” and the epic “Seven Samurai,” but “Ran” represents a consummation of sorts in the director’s career and lifetime. At age 75, Kurosawa puts his own style into Shakespeare’s “King Lear,” the descent of a once great [...]
Archive Review: Enemy of the State (1998)
In a post-9/11 era, moviegoers are no longer fazed by the idea that the government can utilize technology to the fullest extent in tracking and monitoring citizens. We also understand that this (debatably) infringes upon our civil liberties. Since then, dozens of films have warned us of the dangerous extent that technology can take us [...]
Archive Review: Scary Movie (2000)
A spoof is never a bad idea, but it requires wit and the Wayans brothers don’t have it. Think back to the films that made the spoof a genre (“Airplane” and “The Naked Gun”) and there you have a commitment to nonsensical but witty humor and most of all — subtlety. “Scary Movie” might make [...]
Review: District 9
Alien invasion stories can often seem a bit far-fetched, but making a great action movie with a compelling story for just $30 million shouldn’t. If “District 9″ scores at the box office, maybe it will drive home to Hollywood that eternal but oft forgotten message that great films come from great stories. “District 9″ is [...]
Rankings: Top 10 Brunette Beauties
“The Time Traveler’s Wife” came out today and while I have no plans to run to and see it, especially with the buzzworthy and awesome-looking sci-fi flick “District 9” also opening, it doesn’t mean I’m any less hopelessly in love with star Rachel McAdams. In other words, if you invite me, I will go see [...]
Archive Review: Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Pregnancy and eventually the bond between mother and child is a powerful thing. Hormones, attachment, sometimes postpartum depression — even the mystery of what’s growing inside — Roman Polanski channels all these things into storytelling elements of suspense and paranoia in his superbly written “Rosemary’s Baby.”
Lights off on Spidey musical?
A lot of folks were bothered at the news that Spider-Man would be taking the stage on Broadway next year for some good ‘ole slingin’ and singin’, and they might be able to sleep easy now that rumors of the financial backing behind the Julie Taymor (“Across the Universe” and Broadway’s “The Lion King”) production [...]
Review: Funny People
Minus the gratuitous male genitalia jokes, “Funny People” is about as far from anything Judd Apatow has directed or produced since he hit it big with “The 40-Year-Old Virgin.” Finally collaborating with longtime friend Adam Sandler, Apatow takes the creative license that his reputation as comedic master of the decade has afforded him and makes [...]
Warner Bros. to build LEGO movie
I love the idea of things from my childhood being turned into major motion pictures, but I think a live action/animation hybrid LEGO movie is where I would have drawn the line. However, in the spirit of two of this summer’s hits “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” and “G.I. Joe,” Warner Bros. has plans to [...]
Rankings: Top 10 Superhero Movies
You can pooh all over the fact that I claim to know what I’m talking about when it comes to film, but you cannot smear that on my reputation as a superhero movie buff. I’m no Brainiac (boy, I hope Superman fans are reading this) and I haven’t seen everything, but if there’s a genre [...]
Archive Review: Road to Perdition (2002)
Anyone who has to direct another movie after his first feature film won him a Best Director Oscar, has to be scared out of his mind. How do you top that? Seriously. Although “Road to Perdition” is an impassioned story (based on a graphic novel) of an Irish mobster and his son trying to stay [...]
Review: (500) Days of Summer
“(500) Days of Summer” informs us right away that it’s a boy meets girl story, not a love story. Interesting, considering our preconditioning for the romantic comedies of happily ever after, or in this case, the indie romantic comedy with “a way of working out” that has been done so many times already that “indie” [...]
Welcome to Movie Muse
Hi, and welcome to Movie Muse. I’m Steven and this is my new blog dedicated to those who love discussing movies. To let you know a little about me … other than that I love writing about film … I’m a recent college graduate who’s now a journalist based in Chicago. I’m trying to get [...]
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