The best part of the first “300” was the stylized fight scenes. The worst part, by far, was any time a character said anything. Not much has changed in the seven years between these films. The dialogue is no better, but unlike its predecessor, this film requires longer explanations to set the stage for battle […]
Reel News: Week of March 3 — 300: Rise of an Empire, Mr. Peabody and Sherman, Tim’s Vermeer, 12 Years a Slave
Upcoming Theatrical Releases 300: Rise of An Empire Director: Noam Murro R; 102 mins. Trailer Based on Frank Miller’s latest graphic novel Xerxes and told in the breathtaking visual style of the blockbuster “300,” this new chapter of the epic saga takes the action to a fresh battlefield-on the sea-as Greek general Themistokles (Sullivan Stapleton) […]
Reel News: Week of Feb. 24 — Son of God, Non-Stop, The Wind Rises, Gravity, Thor: The Dark World, Blue is the Warmest Color
Upcoming Theatrical Releases Son of God Director: Christopher Spencer PG-13; 138 mins. Trailer This major motion picture event — an experience created to be shared among families and communities across the U.S. — brings the story of Jesus’ life to audiences through compelling cinematic storytelling that is both powerful and inspirational. Told with the scope […]
Reel News: 3 Days to Kill, Pompeii, Ender’s Game
Upcoming Theatrical Releases 3 Days to Kill Director: McG PG-13; 105 mins. Trailer In this heart pounding action-thriller, Kevin Costner is a dangerous international spy, who is determined to give up his high stakes life to finally build a closer relationship with his estranged wife and daughter, whom he’s previously kept at arm’s length to […]
Dagger Movie Night: Labor Day — “Don’t Pick a Plot Pulled from a Grocery Store Romance Novel”
Sometimes, as a writer, you don’t need to do anything more than embrace the genre in which you are working. This should have been a simple romance story about a guy barging into a woman’s life and then her falling for him. Instead, we get a slightly creepy, overanalyzed, extremely earnest take on Stockholm Syndrome. […]
Reel News: The Lego Movie, Monuments Men, The Past, Vampire Academy, Dallas Buyers Club
Upcoming Theatrical Releases The Lego Movie Director: Phil Lord and Christopher Miller PG; 94 mins. Trailer “The LEGO (R) Movie” is the first-ever, full-length theatrical LEGO (R) adventure. The original 3D computer animated story follows Emmet (Chris Pratt) an ordinary, rules- following, perfectly average LEGO minifigure who is mistakenly identified as the most extraordinary person […]
Reel News: Week of Jan. 31 — The Invisible Woman, I Frankenstein, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2, Rush, Last Vegas
Upcoming Theatrical Releases The Invisible Woman Director: Ralph Fiennes R; 111 mins. Trailer Nelly (Felicity Jones), a happily-married mother and schoolteacher, is haunted by her past. Her memories, provoked by remorse and guilt, take us back in time to follow the story of her relationship with Charles Dickens (Ralph Fiennes) with whom she discovered an […]
Reel News: Week of Jan. 10 — Lone Survivor, Her, Legend of Hercules, August: Osage County, We Are What We Are
Upcoming Theatrical Releases Lone Survivor Director: Peter Berg R, 121 mins Trailer LONE SURVIVOR, starring Mark Wahlberg, tells the story of four Navy SEALs on an ill-fated covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative who are ambushed by enemy forces in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan. Based on The New York Times bestseller, […]
