You may not be familiar with the name Jim White, but all of that is about to change. The new film, McFarland is based on White's life focusing on the time he moved to a small, impoverished California town and changed the lives of dozens of high school students for the better.
Read MoreSince its debut at Sundance, the hilarious New Zealand mockumentary What We Do In The Shadows has become a film festival hit internationally, simul-spoofing the bloodsucker genre and the soul sucking narcissism of reality television. The creative teams behind all the bloody good fun are Jemaine Clement (HBO’s “Flight Of The Conchords”) and his frequent collaborator Taika Waititi (Boy, Eagle Vs. Shark). Waititi and Clement co-star and co-direct with a script they wrote but didn’t show to the improv-friendly cast.
Read MoreRyan Reynolds is never one to disappoint when it comes to the roles he chooses. Some have been hits, some have been misses but you can't argue that most of them have been really interesting. His latest starring role is in The Voices, which had it’s premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.
Read MoreKeanu Reeves is back in John Wick an action packed thriller that will keep you on the edge of your couch till the very end! Reeves plays, John Wick a widowed retired hit man whose restored 1969 Ford Mustang is stolen and adored dog is killed by a sadistic thug. It's one thing to mess with his car but when his dog dies, he mean business and Wick goes back into action for revenge. The skilled, ruthless hit man, a known legend in the criminal underworld, tracks down the young thug only to discover he is the son of a major crime boss, a former employer.
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Johnny Depp loves working with Paul Bettany. The two have acted together in Transcendence and The Tourist but have never been in a comedy together, until now. Mortdecai not only teams them up but allowed them to be completely and utterly silly in their roles.
Read More“Annabelle” arrives onto Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and Digital HD on January 20 from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. Reuniting the filmmakers behind 2013’s hugely successful supernatural thriller “The Conjuring,” “Annabelle” is the terrifying story of where it all began as Annabelle comes to life.
Read Moreward season is officially in full swing with the Critics Choice awards handed out in Hollywood last night. Richard Linklater's 12-years-in-the-making labor of love Boyhood walked away with Best Picture and Best Director at the 20th Critics’ Choice Movie Awards at the Hollywood Palladium. Birdman led the field with seven wins, including three for Michael Keaton Best Actor, Best Comedy Actor and Best Acting Ensemble. Julianne Moore is on a roll winning Best Actress for Still Alice, as did J.K. Simmons who drummed up a Best Supporting Actor win for Whiplash. The Grand Budapest Hotel took three awards including Best Comedy, and Guardians Of The Galaxy took two.
Read MoreOscar nominated actress Sally Hawkins was quick to jump on board of the sweet new family film, Paddington. For one thing, the film is directed by her close friend Paul King but having grown up in the U.K. Sally was more than familiar with the books based on the precocious and adorable bear and his adventures.
Read MoreMany obvious choices and some MAJOR snubs at the 2015 Oscar nominations announced early this morning from Hollywood. For some like The Theory Of Everything and The Imitation Game, there was plenty of good news. However, for Selma director Ava DuVernay and lead actor David Oyelowo, American Sniper director Clint Eastwood, the Roger Ebert documentary Life Itself, Jennifer Aniston for her performance in Cake and the animated favorite The Lego Movie, among others it’s hard to believe the blatant snubs.
Read MoreThere will be some pretty heavy competition at Canada’s annual film awards with nominations announced yesterday in Toronto. Wonder kid Xavier Dolan’s critical darling Mommy will face off against David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars.
Read MoreWant to start off 2015 with some laughs? Well then, The Wedding Ringer will surely deliver. The new comedy stars Kevin Hart as Jimmy, a guy who provides best man services for socially challenged guys, who - for whatever reason - have no one close enough to agree to stand by them on the day of their wedding. Doug, played by Josh Gad (Frozen, The Book of Mormon) a groom-to-be, has found himself in just such a situation, but, to make matters worse, he fabricates the names of not only a best man but nine groomsmen as well.
Read MoreMost people are in some way familiar with the infamous paintings of young children with the big black eyes, but many do not know the true story behind those paintings. Director Tim Burton wanted to shed some light on that subject and brings us, Big Eyes starring Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz.
Read MoreSelma is one of those movies that just doesn't come around too often. The film is an emotional and poignant look at just one major event in Dr. Martin Luther King's journey to achieve equality and civil rights.
Read MoreMark Wahlberg gets serious in, The Gambler. Wahlberg went all method (including losing 60 pounds) to play Jim Bennett a literature professor who leads a secret life as a high-stakes gambler. Always a risk-taker, Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster and offers his own life as collateral.
Read MoreBased on Thomas Pynchon's best selling novel, Inherent Vice is the latest big screen offering from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson. It's a "trippy" movie set in the seventies and features an all star cast who play a wild bunch of interesting and amusing characters. Joaquin Phoenix seems right at home playing a pot smoking private eye who gets pulled back into the biz when his ex girlfriend comes a calling.
Read MoreThe Imitation Game is starting to garner plenty of attention especially with the numerous awards shows just around the corner. The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch in an award worthy performance as Alan Turing, a genius British logician and cryptologist who helps crack Germany's Enigma Code during World War II but is later prosecuted by his government for illegal homosexual acts.
Read MoreTimothy Spall is on a roll! The veteran British actor won the best actor prize at Cannes for his role as artist J.M.W Turner in his latest film, Mr Turner and was just named the best actor by the New York film critics. There is no doubt that we will be hearing his name called once again when Oscar nominations are announced in January 2015.
Read MoreThe Hundred Foot Journey starring Helen Mirren is available on Blu Ray on December 2nd. The film centers on Hassan Haji is a young Indian boy living with his family in a small village in the French Alps. His family opens a restaurant just 100 yards from a three-star Michelin rated restaurant owned by the eccentric Madame Mallory.
Read MoreVeteran actor Jeffrey Wright is best known for his very serious and dramatic roles, but he is also very proud of the work he has done in the Hunger Game films. Wright is back in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 as Beetee Latier the technical wizard who invents all of Katniss Everdeen's (Jennifer Lawrence) weapons and says he loved every minute of being back on set with the cast and working with the new actors who are introduced in this chapter.
Read MoreMahershala Ali may not be a house old name but he's definitely working on it. The seasoned actor nabbed a prime role opposite Jennifer Lawrence in, The Hunger Games Mockingjay parts 1 and 2 and you can currently see him opposite Kevin Spacey in the Netflix mega hit series, House of Cards as Remy Danton.
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