Beginning in the year 1900 in New York City, Steven Soderbergh's first episode of "The Knick" opens with Dr. John W. Thackery (Clive Owen) receiving a gentle reminder of the time by a woman in what appears to be an opium den.
The nostalgia of the late 1980s and early 90s provided a boost for this weekend's box office champion. The "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" won the box office, with "Guardians of the Galaxy" slipping to second place.
Folks, in my ever expanding and pointless quest to become a filmmaker, I have decided that my first feature length film will be a Russian epic starring Salma Hayek, Samuel L. Jackson, Gong Li, Michelle Rodrigue...
File this under "highly suspicious", but Vince Vaughn is apparently poised to join "True Detective" Season Two. The award winning show is already looking to add Colin Farrell and Taylor Kitsch to the mix.
The "Guardians of the Galaxy" ruled the box office! Marvel's least known property surpassed expectations and pulled in $94 million for the weekend box office.
"The Hateful Eight" follows the steadily ratcheting tension that develops after a blizzard diverts a stagecoach from its route, and traps a pitiless and mistrustful group which includes a competing pair of bounty hunters, a renegade Confederate soldier, and a female prisoner in a saloon in the middle of nowhere.
The title says it all. The question may seem benign and somewhat moot, considering the more important things one has to struggle with. But the question leads to a rabbit hole that allows us to ask it in a different way: "Is Hollywood afraid of women?"
"The Purge: Anarchy" tells the story of an America in the year 2023, with unprecedented low crime and unemployment rates. How did this happen? Did we finally get our proverbial s#$t together and enact laws, educational frameworks, and social services that truly support the needy? Nope. In 2023 America, we enact "The Purge".
One of the many underrated movies of 2013 is actor-director Joshua Gordon-Levitt's "Don Jon". As the title character, Levitt as Don Jon is the ultimate Jersey Shore "meat head". He also happens to be a ladies man.