300: Rise of an Empire, the sequel (or prequel?) to Zack Snyder’s 2006 film, 300, is an hour and a half of CGI blood splashed to the face. The film, now directed by Noam Murro, follows a Greek general, Themistokles (Sullivan Stapleton) as he leads an army into battle against the Persian army lead by…
The Altamonte Picture Show is hands-down Orlando’s best (and cleanliest) value theater. Metaphorically speaking, if we were doing a comparison, the Picture Show is the Target of value versus the dingy Wal-Mart that is the Colonial Promenade. Regardless of which side of town you live on, it’s worth the drive. Especially on Tuesdays, when all…
Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises presents a whimsical and fantastic look into Pre-World War II Japan in what he calls his final feature length film. The narrative follows, and pays tribute to the real life, Jiro Horikoshi (voiced by Joseph Gordon-Levitt) as it charts his journey and rise through the aviation world as he chases…
Bill Marks (Liam Neeson) is an alcoholic struggling with some personal demons. Non-Stop, the newest film from director Juame Collet-Serra (2011’s Unknown), opens with Marks sitting in his car at an airport. He slowly pours a dark brown liquid into his coffee, tosses back a deep sip, and leaves the vehicle, heading towards the airport….
Somewhere in between directing installments of the Resident Evil franchise and producing Asylum-esque features, Paul W.S. Anderson found the time to churn out Pompeii. Now this isn’t the type of film that is going to win any awards – let us not fool ourselves here. I don’t think anyone in the cast, crew, or audience…
The Altamonte Picture Show is hands-down Orlando’s best (and cleanliest) value theater. Regardless of which side of town you live on, it’s worth the drive. Especially on Tuesdays, when all screenings cost only a dollar, why not spend a couple of them and get yourself caught up on some films you might have missed? For this week’s…
In About Last Night, two drastically different couples go on a double date after the more outrageous and raunchy couple hook-up. These couples are pairs of best friends, Bernie (Kevin Hart) and Joan (Regina Hall) and Danny (Michael Ealy) and Debbie (Joy Bryant) that meet up in a bar in Los Angeles. Bernie and Joan…
It is really becoming a challenge to review a new film that has retooled another film that is so dear to my heart. I remember seeing Paul Verhoeven’s RoboCop (1987) when I was in second grade. And, like The Terminator before it, it mesmerized me with its gratuitous violence, strange editorial structure, and the absolute…
The Altamonte Picture Show is hands-down Orlando’s best (and cleanliest) value theater. Metaphorically speaking, if we were doing a comparison, the Picture Show is the Target of value versus the dingy Wal-Mart that is the Colonial Promenade. Regardless of which side of town you live on, it’s worth the drive. Especially on Tuesdays, when all…
It would be impossible to provide an accurate number to the amount of hours spent during my childhood, from around ages 6-13, playing with LEGOs. It was the glory days of the 80s, before imagination was killed by the internet, and I lived in my room, buried in a bucket of blocks, constructing things from…
