Archive for the ‘Preview’ Category

THE BOOK OF ELI PREVIEW: Post God, Post Apocalypse

Friday, January 15th, 2010


The Hughes Brothers have been away from the limelight since 2001′s From Hell with Johnny Depp, but their return features the huge combo of Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman in a post-apocalyptic western-inspired tale of biblical proportions.

~Matt + Nat

SHERLOCK HOLMES PREVIEW: Victorian Street Elementary, My Dear Watson

Monday, December 21st, 2009


If you’re looking for a director who can completely erase stuffy, old British boredom, you don’t have to go any further than Guy Ritchie. And so giving him the reigns to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous Victorian detective seems like something of an inspired gamble. With Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law taking the roles of Holmes and Watson, and Canadian starlet Rachel McAdams playing a deliciously villainous love interest, the cast is as strong as the source material, but we’ll have to wait until Christmas to see what’s inside the packaging.

~Matt + Nat

NEW MOON PREVIEW: Bella? Check. Edward? Check. Jake? Uh-oh.

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009


After Nat got us both hooked on Bella and Edward’s story in 2008, we’ve been looking forward to a high-octane director’s take on the Werewolf curveball in New Moon, so check out what Kristen, Taylor and director Chris Weitz say we’re in store for!

~Matt + Nat

2012 PREVIEW: Mayhem and Carnage, Straight Up!

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

When Roland Emmerich destroys the world, he does it with a certain panache. Independence Day, Godzilla, Day After Tomorrow are some of his previous epic disaster movies and 2012 looks to be kicking it up yet again. With an off-beat cast including genre favourites like John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Woody Harrelson, the Mayan doomsday is compounded by a government conspiracy and some of the biggest scale earth-ending images we’ve ever seen!

~Matt + Nat

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE PREVIEW: Sendak + Jonze = Awesome?

Saturday, October 17th, 2009

Watch scenes from the movie and interviews with the cast and crew! It’s taken decades to finally happen, but Maurice Sendak’s beloved children’s book, Where the Wild Things Are has finally been adapted to the silver screen. The only thing less predictable is that the director who would accomplish this feat is Spike Jonze! With a history of wild music videos and MTV’s Jackass under his belt, he’d seem an unlikely choice, but he’s been friends with Sendak for years and after plenty of buzz about re-fanging the controversial 60′s book for a modern audience, this creature effect driven story about childhood is finally ready!

~Matt + Nat

ZOMBIELAND PREVIEW: Horror/Comedy/Buddy/Road-Movie

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg look like they make an incredible comedic duo in Ruben Fleischer’s directorial debut, Zombieland, but there’s a delicate balance to ride between that comedy and the horror elements that makes Zombie movies really knock it out of the park. We’re both easily as excited about this one as we were about any summer movies that came our way, whether that’s because Matt loves him some Sam Raimi-style horror/comedy or because Nat has an abnormally active imagination when it comes to surviving a Zombie pandemic, you can bet we’ll be inline for the midnight screening!

~Matt + Nat

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS PREVIEW: Tarantino’s Macaroni Combat

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

Quentin is bringing us something the world hasn’t really seen in theatres since the 70′s — a spaghetti western style World War II movie set in Nazi Germany behind enemy lines. With Brad Pitt… that part’s new. With a great cast of international talent, at least three languages and more Nazi scalping than you can put in a single movie trailer, it looks like Tarantino’s latest is a sight to behold. At least, that’s what the folks at the Cannes Film Fest thought. What about you? Let us know what you’re expecting! Another piece of genius from the world’s biggest movie fan? Or a disappointing over-the-top action movie from a screenwriter whose greatest asset lies in dialogue?

~Matt + Nat

DISTRICT 9 PREVIEW: Original Sci-Fi From South Africa?

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

We’ve been looking forward to this one since the very first “For Human Use Only” bus shelters started popping up in our city, and the early teasers made this look like a sci-fi film the likes of which we’ve never seen. Oozing with social commentary, this human/alien segregation story is placed in South Africa, where the wounds of apartheid are still healing. We can’t wait to see what Producer Peter Jackson and first-time Director Neill Blomkamp have to offer with District 9!

~Matt + Nat