Review by Luke Whitmire After watching Star Trek Into Darkness, I know J.J. Abrams is going to make a brilliant Star Wars movie. Abrams is a perfect fit to direct the impending Episode VII. Mr. Abrams has solidified himself as a masterful, propulsive and visceral filmmaker along with James Cameron, Christopher Nolan, Steven Spielberg and [...]
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Star Trek Into Darkness is an Exhilarating, Emotionally Dense and Utterly Pleasurable Journey That Will Take the Fans to New Heights and Dimensions
Posted: May 16, 2013 by Podwits Administrator in Film, Film ReviewTags: Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Pine, J.J. Abrams, Karl Urban, Peter Weller, Simon Pegg, Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana
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The Great Gatsby is a Mad Circus of Visual Opulence That Overshadows the Narrative, But DiCaprio’s Portrayal of the Man is Outstanding
Posted: May 15, 2013 by Podwits Administrator in Film, Film ReviewTags: Australia, Buz Lurhmann, Carey Mulligan, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joe Edgerton, Leonardo DiCaprio, Moulin Rouge!, Romeo & Juliet, The Great Gatsby, Tobey Maguire
Review by Luke Whitmire The Great Gatsby truly is a beautiful, rich spectacle that has gleaming and saturated colors with kinetic emotion. Buz Lurhmann’s visual style and palate has always been hypnotic, cinematic insanity, often beset with strong characters. Restraint isn’t his thing. In previous films like Romeo & Juliet, Moulin Rouge! and Australia, he used the [...]
Iron Man 3 is an Effective Machine Designed Solely to Entertain
Posted: May 3, 2013 by Podwits Administrator in Film, Film ReviewTags: Ben Kingsley, Brian Tyler, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Gwyneth Paltrow, Iron Man, Predator, Robert Downey Jr, Shane Black, The Avengers, The Dark Knight, The Last Boyscout, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Ty Simpkins
Review by Luke Whitmire This time Iron Man belongs to the prolific action screenwriter from the 80′s, Shane Black (Lethal Weapon, Predator, The Long Kiss Goodnight, The Last Boy Scout, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang), and his Iron Man is full of irreverent humor and wit that has turned him into one of the best screenwriters in the [...]
Eastwood at Tribeca
Posted: April 30, 2013 by Dion in Film, Film Review, NewsTags: Akira Kurosawa, Breezy, Clint Eastwood, Darren Aronofsky, Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story, Fatal Attraction, Fistful of Dollars, Lolita, Play Misty For Me, Richard Schickel, Sergio Leone, The Eiger Sanction, Tribeca Film Festival, William Holden, Yojimbo
Yorkshire Girl and I were lucky enough to attend the Clint Eastwood installment of the Director’s Series at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. After the theatrical premiere of the new documentary Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story, which discussed Eastwood as a director, a Q&A was held immediately afterward with Mr. Eastwood, which was moderated by director [...]
The Podwits Challenge: 10 Films that Molded You
Posted: January 30, 2013 by Dion in Film, Film Review, Up on The Soap BoxTags: A Night to Remember, Charles Laughton, Dirty Harry, James Cagney, Randy Jurgensen, Sorcerer, The Black Hole, The Last Man on Earth, The Muppet Movie, The Night of the Hunter, the terminator, The Untouchables, Transformers the Movie, Wages of Fear
He’s a fun thing a friend passed on to me, contributor J Blake. Pick 10 movies. They don’t have to be good, or groundbreaking. You don’t even have to like them anymore. But these 10 movies are films that really sculpted you into who you are today, and really had an affect on you growing up. [...]
Jessica Chastain Takes Charge in the Taut, Stark and Unconventional Zero Dark Thirty
Posted: December 27, 2012 by Podwits Administrator in Film, Film ReviewTags: Greig Fraser, Jessica Chastain, Karthryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Oscars, Point Break, Seal Team Six, Strange Days, The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty
Review by Luke Whitmire Twenty five years ago in the genesis of her career, a young Kathryn Bigelow was a protege to a high caliber filmmaker (James Cameron), and she soon became a great visionary for directing big-budget action films. She started her career as a filmmaker whose work consisted only in the artifice realm. [...]
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Posted: December 17, 2012 by Podwits Administrator in Film, Film ReviewTags: Cate Blanchet, Christopher Lee, Gollum, Hugo Weaving, Ian McKellen, J.R.R. Tolkien, Martin Freeman, Peter Jackson, The Hobbit
Review by Luke Whitmire The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey takes place sixty years before the events of The Lord of the Rings. The Rings trilogy was a dynamic, pulsating fantasy story that roused audiences, and changed the landscape for epic spectacles. A brief history: The Hobbit, or There and Back Again—better known by its abbreviated [...]
Killing Them Softly Is A Vicious, Sordid and Violent Darwinian Blood-Sport
Posted: December 3, 2012 by Podwits Administrator in Film, Film ReviewTags: Andrew Dominik, Ben Mendelsohn, Brad Pitt, Johnny Cash, Killing Them Softly, Obama, Ray Liotta, Richard Jenkins, Scoot McNairy
Review by Luke Whitmire The plot goes like this: Two lowlife, crack-addict, brain-dead criminals (Scoot McNairy & Ben Mendelsohn) are recruited to knock off Markie Trattman’s (Ray Liotta) high-stakes underground casino. A porcine thug who has knocked off one of his own games in the past and got away with it, Markie knows he [...]
Silver Linings Playbook Will Make You Feel Great About Life and Relationships When the End Credits Role
Posted: November 30, 2012 by Podwits Administrator in Film, Film ReviewTags: Bradley Cooper, Brea Bee, Chris Tucker, David O. Russell, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert DeNiro, Silver Linings Playbook, The Fighter
Review by Luke Whitmire The masterful David O. Russell directs another enthralling and compelling oddball drama that centers on a bipolar son and his dysfunctional family. In the hands of Russell, Hollywood’s brilliant humanist filmmaker, Silver Linings Playbook is easily the best romantic comedy of the year. Like his 2010 The Fighter, Russell’s subject [...]
Flight soars with Verisimilitude.
Posted: November 27, 2012 by Podwits Administrator in Film, Film ReviewTags: Back To The Future, Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle, Flight, Forest Gump, John Goodman, Robert Zeme, What Lies Beneath?, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Review by Luke Whitmire Robert Zemeckis returns to live-action filmmaking after 10 years with Flight, another instant classic on par with his previous cinema- Forest Gump, Back to the Future, What Lies Beneath and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. An absorbing, sophisticated morality play that accentuates real life issues.