TRAILER: Carrie

 

If you been waiting for the Carrie trailer starring Chloë Grace Moretz and Julianne Moore, you can wait no more, watch the new trailer here!

INTERVUE: Michael Ealy

 

On this edition of INTERVUE, a lone Bowie State alum is surrounded by not one, not two but THREE Maryland alum. Sister to Sister’s Erick Boston and UrbanFilmPremiere.com’s Shelby J Jones along with me interview Michael Ealy. He plays Dominic the dreamer in the new Tim Story’s movie “Think Like a Man”, opening in theatres tomorrow.

MOVIE REVUE: Straw Dogs Revisits the Darker Side of Human Nature

A Straw Dog – highly regarded, but when no longer need, discarded.

In 1971, Sam Peckinpah’s psychological thriller Straw Dogs  created a ripple in a generation of filmgoers  with  its  unprecedented depiction  of  human brutality. Censors struggled with an appropriate rating in England where it was filmed and initially released, branding it with an 18 + due to its graphic rendering of a sexual assault. The film was then trimmed for its release in the United States to satisfy the MPAAs requirements for an R rating and subsequently put through twenty years of re-edits that resulted in three different cuts, most recently (and ironically) in its original, unrated form.

MOVIE REVUE: Attack the Block Proves Greater Than Its Budget

 

If throwing caution to the wind and developing a few basic ideas for an inexpensive alien invasion comedy produces a film as entertaining as Attack the Block in the UK, it might be time for Hollywood to reach out to the Brits for some creative stimulus and perhaps even some financial advice.

Comic-Con Part 2: Hall H – Movies and Television… sort of.

As mentioned before, this is not a professional press piece written by someone in the trenches, the stage-sides and the red carpets with the photographers, the bloggers and the paparazzi.  This is purely a piece about one person’s experience at San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) International 2011.  There are no “scoops” here; there are no startling revelations; there are no one-on-one interviews with anyone; there are no photographs from any exclusive parties, as I’m just not cool.  At all.
Please note: my family and I did not have entry passes for Saturday, owing to SDCC’s somewhat flawed (if not controversial) online ticket-buying procedure this year.
And now, Part 2 of the Comic-Con diary entry:  Hall H: Movie Studios and More.

MOVIE REVUE: It’s Good To Have Friends With Benefits

Friends With Benefits is not ground-breaking, earth-shattering moviemaking.  It won’t change the movie game.  It won’t even change your life.  However, it’ll charm the pants off of you and make you laugh (especially with one scene past the credits), and it’ll even make you go and immediately download “Jump” by Kriss Kross after the movie’s over.  Justin Timberlake gives us his most satisfying performance since The Social Network and also gives this movie the shining smile you’ll take with you when you leave the theater.

MOVIE REVUE: Country “Not as Strong as it Could Be”

 

Shana Feste’s second directoral attempt, Country Strong, opens up pleasantly. The movie tells many stories, but is the primary focus on two couples. The veteran country star Kelly Canter (Gwyneth Paltrow) and her husband and pain in the butt manager James (Tim McGraw); and down-to-earth country boy Beau Hutton (Garrett Hedlund) and aspiring country singer Chiles Stanton (Leighton Meester). Country music fans, stay tuned, there is plenty to like about this film. Film fans be warned, there are plenty of tropes of this film, and many are clearly exports from real life.

The Rogers Revue’s TOP FILMS of 2010 – Part I

 

Good Evening TRR Readers,

Its the moment you all been waiting for.  After the second tour of 365 days, numerous trips to the DC Metro area’s finest movie theatres, and viewing countless films without quoting scripts on a daily basis; it’s time to declare the THE ROGERS REVUE TOP FILMS OF 2010!

2009 has been an amazing year not only for myself but for the entire team. In one year’s time, TRR has grown from a lone man to a strong solid team of writers and reporters bringing you the very best in entertainment. We have brought the world of theatre, comedy shows, and concerts unlike ever before. In addition, we have the pleasure of interviewing many of your favorite celebrities such as Margaret Cho and John Cena, to local filmmakers such as Lonnie Martin and Seth Blaustein. Finally, we have been your eyes to such wonderful events including Cirque Du Soleil’s Ovo, Marc Anthony, and my personal favorite – Lillith Fair. 

MOVIE REVUE: Easy A – An Updated Morality Tale

 

Oh, high school… the place where dreams are made and shattered.  None of us were as comfortable in our own skins; we aspired to be something or someone else constantly.  Also, it was the most difficult thing a lot of us had faced up to that point; we resorted to many things to keep us afloat or to boost our social standings.  For some people, it was academics; for others, it was making music, either in the symphonic school band or garage bands; others found solace in theater productions.  And for a small subset, their boring lives needed a little boost, so they turned to lies – fantastical tales about who they’d slept with, partied with or beaten up, all in the name of higher self-esteem.  We’ve all been there – a lie, started by us or someone else, gets out of control and quickly becomes the antithesis of why it got started in the first place; in a quest to seem more socially or sexually active, we wind up digging our own holes and burying ourselves in them.  Easy A captures this facet of high school life brilliantly, proving to us that a lie may sound better than the truth, but it’s not necessarily better fundamentally. 

MOVIE REVUE: Resident Evil: Skip this ‘Afterlife’

 

 

The far too long running Resident Evil franchise’s fourth (and sadly not last, thanks to post credit scene) film will likely open at #1 by default since there are no other wide releases.  As a fan of the original videogame series the franchise is based (in the loosest sense of the word) upon, I had to leave my expectations at the door to objectively assess ‘Afterlife’.  Having seen and detested the original Resident Evil (also directed by Paul W.S. Anderson) in theatres, I caught only unimpressive glimpses of ‘Apocalypse’ on tv and skipped ‘Extinction’ all together.