And so 2013 ends with one final What to Watch to carry you through to 2014. Have some gift card money burning a hole in your wallet? Want something to stream while your family bickers over the holiday? Just need a break from it all? Here are the latest and greatest new releases, listed in the order we’d put ‘em on an Amazon wish list.
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
Photo credit: IFC
“Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”
David Lowery’s Sundance hit is a 2013 film that I can guarantee you will grow in esteem as time goes by. Future generations will be surprised that it didn’t get enough attention on its initial release. I’ve been stunned at its complete absence in the year-end conversation. It’s not a perfect film but there’s a lot to like here from Bradford Young’s gorgeous cinematography to great performances by Casey Affleck,...
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
Photo credit: IFC
“Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”
David Lowery’s Sundance hit is a 2013 film that I can guarantee you will grow in esteem as time goes by. Future generations will be surprised that it didn’t get enough attention on its initial release. I’ve been stunned at its complete absence in the year-end conversation. It’s not a perfect film but there’s a lot to like here from Bradford Young’s gorgeous cinematography to great performances by Casey Affleck,...
- 12/24/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Last summer’s The Lone Ranger was labelled a bomb before it even opened and sure enough, it lost a boatload of bucks for the folks at Disney. To me, the biggest negative was the film’s length. At 2 hours and 30 minutes, I think 40 minutes could have easily been whittled out and the film would have been better received, though it’s certainly not any more bloated than some of the superhero movies that everyone likes, and which it’s pace and sense of overblown adventure seems to be modeled after.
Johnny Depp played a wonderfully weird Tonto, a wandering Comanche Native American who is hunting an evil spirit and also the man he believes can help him kill that evil spirit. Armie Hammer was a handsome, square-jawed Lone Ranger, a recent law school graduate looking to bring his sense of fair justice to town. The Lone Ranger was a whole lot of fun.
Johnny Depp played a wonderfully weird Tonto, a wandering Comanche Native American who is hunting an evil spirit and also the man he believes can help him kill that evil spirit. Armie Hammer was a handsome, square-jawed Lone Ranger, a recent law school graduate looking to bring his sense of fair justice to town. The Lone Ranger was a whole lot of fun.
- 12/17/2013
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
In some ways, The Lone Ranger has been dead on arrival since 2011, when the denizens of the Internet (including yours truly, though I wish I could say differently) roused in delight at the news that Walt Disney Pictures was putting the film on hold so the production could get a better handle on a bloated budget that was close to approaching $300 million. Thus began a freefall that has not stopped for a movie that performed so poorly for the Walt Disney Company that it severed ties with once-legendary super-producer Jerry Bruckheimer. A deal that stretched back to the mid-1990s is now defunct, outside of the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean film, all because Johnny Depp had to wear a bird on the top of his head as he played Tonto to Armie Hammer’s masked hero of legend and lore.
Ok, I’m being glib. Though Depp’s headwear...
Ok, I’m being glib. Though Depp’s headwear...
- 12/17/2013
- by Josh Spiegel
- SoundOnSight
Blu-ray/DVD Release Date: Dec. 17, 2013
Price: Blu-ray/DVD Combo $39.99
Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Johnny Depp (The Rum Diary) plays Tonto to Armie Hammer’s (J. Edgar) legendary law man in the 2013 movie The Lone Ranger.
The action adventure film brings Depp back together with the team behind at least three of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies: director Gore Verbinski, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and writers Terry Elliott and Ted Rossio. New to the party is co-writer Justin Haythe (Snitch).
In The Lone Ranger, Depp’s Tonto recounts the tales that transformed Hammer’s John Reid from law man to masked vigilante, seeking vengeance after justice failed them.
Also starring are Tom Wilkinson (The Conspirator), Helena Bonham Carter (The King’s Speech) and Barry Pepper (True Grit).
Rated PG-13, the film wasn’t too well liked by critics, who gave it only 30% approval, according to Rotten Tomatoes. Moviegoers were...
Price: Blu-ray/DVD Combo $39.99
Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Johnny Depp (The Rum Diary) plays Tonto to Armie Hammer’s (J. Edgar) legendary law man in the 2013 movie The Lone Ranger.
The action adventure film brings Depp back together with the team behind at least three of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies: director Gore Verbinski, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and writers Terry Elliott and Ted Rossio. New to the party is co-writer Justin Haythe (Snitch).
In The Lone Ranger, Depp’s Tonto recounts the tales that transformed Hammer’s John Reid from law man to masked vigilante, seeking vengeance after justice failed them.
Also starring are Tom Wilkinson (The Conspirator), Helena Bonham Carter (The King’s Speech) and Barry Pepper (True Grit).
Rated PG-13, the film wasn’t too well liked by critics, who gave it only 30% approval, according to Rotten Tomatoes. Moviegoers were...
- 9/20/2013
- by Sam
- Disc Dish
Terror Train
Stars: Ben Johnson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Hart Bochner, David Copperfield, Vanity | Written by T.Y. Drake | Directed by Roger Spottiswoode
I love the slasher film craze more so than any other sub-genre. Yes, they’re a little repetitve for the most part but they’re always fun to watch. I guess the big formula with most of them, is A) Insert traumatic event. B) Find a location, secluded or otherwise. C) Cast teenagers and have them doff their tops and D) Have them get killed in a variety of manners. Also, the more dated the production, the better. Terror Train follows all of these steps and more. It’s one of the more upstanding and inventive of the slasher films to come out of the early 80′s. The biggest reason why it stands out to me, is that while Jamie Lee Curtis is the star of the film and...
Stars: Ben Johnson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Hart Bochner, David Copperfield, Vanity | Written by T.Y. Drake | Directed by Roger Spottiswoode
I love the slasher film craze more so than any other sub-genre. Yes, they’re a little repetitve for the most part but they’re always fun to watch. I guess the big formula with most of them, is A) Insert traumatic event. B) Find a location, secluded or otherwise. C) Cast teenagers and have them doff their tops and D) Have them get killed in a variety of manners. Also, the more dated the production, the better. Terror Train follows all of these steps and more. It’s one of the more upstanding and inventive of the slasher films to come out of the early 80′s. The biggest reason why it stands out to me, is that while Jamie Lee Curtis is the star of the film and...
- 10/15/2012
- by Nathan Smith
- Nerdly
The first time I saw "BioShock Infinite," I was blown away. The team at Irrational Games had re-imagined the franchise from the ground up, setting the game in the early 1900s, in a floating city known as Columbia. And while I was impressed with the presentation (which you can watch in its entirety here), there was a nagging feeling in the back of my head that we weren't looking at an actual game. Sure, it was in-engine and "interactive," but it felt more like a target video rather than a game. The second time I saw "BioShock Infinite" was last Friday. This time, it was absolutely a game.
Calm Before The Storm
The demo began in a large souvenir store located somewhere in Columbia. It played from the perspective of the game's protagonist, one Booker DeWitt, who has been tasked to find a girl named Elizabeth and bring her back to the mainland.
Calm Before The Storm
The demo began in a large souvenir store located somewhere in Columbia. It played from the perspective of the game's protagonist, one Booker DeWitt, who has been tasked to find a girl named Elizabeth and bring her back to the mainland.
- 5/23/2011
- by Russ Frushtick
- MTV Multiplayer
It appears as if there are as many films these days based on fake trailers as there are on legitimate productions of the Broadway stage. So long as they're this much fun, I'll take Hobo With A Shotgun over Frost/Nixon any time.
Hobo With A Shotgun begins decent-enough for fans of grindhouse cinema looking for some outlandish violence and hammy acting. Then, about 30 minutes in, whatever drugs the movie is on kicks in. Holy sh*t.
Years of goofy, self-referential shock cinema has been leading to this. Set in a make believe city of garish colors with mix-and-match eras of style, crime runs rampant. Twin babyfaced goons in track suits ride around is their Dodge Aries, enforcing their dominance. Sure, they could terrorize the populace with guns, knives or clubs. But don't think so small. Why not clamp a steel trap around someone's neck, open a manhole, drop them...
Hobo With A Shotgun begins decent-enough for fans of grindhouse cinema looking for some outlandish violence and hammy acting. Then, about 30 minutes in, whatever drugs the movie is on kicks in. Holy sh*t.
Years of goofy, self-referential shock cinema has been leading to this. Set in a make believe city of garish colors with mix-and-match eras of style, crime runs rampant. Twin babyfaced goons in track suits ride around is their Dodge Aries, enforcing their dominance. Sure, they could terrorize the populace with guns, knives or clubs. But don't think so small. Why not clamp a steel trap around someone's neck, open a manhole, drop them...
- 1/22/2011
- UGO Movies
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