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 published: 2011-05-02Tribeca Review: Grave Encounters Is More Of The Same, But Still Pretty Scary It’s getting increasingly difficult to keep the found footage style fresh and Grave Encounters proves it. While the film does have a rather unique tone in terms of how it blends horror and comedy, ultimately, it’s a recycling of past shaky cam-style films.    published: 2011-04-27Tribeca Review: Saint's White Subtitles Don't Mesh Well With A White Christmas Saint has two things working against it; it’s subtitled and foreign. No, there’s nothing wrong with requiring an audience to read some text or with a film coming from another country; the problem is the subtitles are often illegible and a number of the jokes  published: 2011-04-25Tribeca Review: Angels Crest Wallows In Its Sorrows, Drowning Great Performances As much as going to the theater should be an enjoyable experience, there’s nothing wrong with checking out a sad piece. However, nobody goes to the movies to just wade around in a character’s problems; you need to experience the person’s emotional range in order to understand and appreciate their hardships.  published: 2011-04-24Tribeca Review: Revenge Of The Electric Car Is A Complicated Second Act For The Auto Industry Paine gets remarkable access to all of these subjects, though Ghosn remains deliberately aloof, and it's hard to miss the fact that Paine is only allowed inside GM because he's highlighting a product they want to promote. Though Paine acknowledges this early on-- "Which one of us is getting played?"  published: 2011-04-22Tribeca Review: Rabies, A Somewhat Successful Horror-Comedy Mash-up When we get slasher flick after slasher flick, it becomes increasingly difficult to make one stand out. Then, on the other hand, stepping out of trite territory and trying to do something different isn’t easy either. In the case of Rabies, we get an attempt to spice up the genre with comedy; certainly a noble effort, but in the end, it’s that dare-to-be-different attitude that tarnishes it. Is it a horror film or a comedy?  published: 2011-04-21Tribeca Review: Trollhunter Puts Vampires, Zombies And Monsters To Shame After some strange occurrences in the forest, a Norway Wildlife Board official swoops in to put local hunters at ease, blaming the incidents on bears. However, a group of students know better and, armed with a video camera, decide to investigate the situation. Local hunters point the kids in the direction of a supposed poacher. They secretly follow him into the woods on one of his late night exploits. Before they can track down Hans, the hunter barrels in their direction yelling, "Troll!"  published: 2011-04-21Tribeca Review: The Bang Bang Club, Slow To Start But Blows You Away It’s quite obvious why a group of photographers preferred the name The Bang Bang Club to The Bang Bang Paparazzi. Then again, what do you call a team who makes a living snapping combat photos never lifting a finger to help the innocent? Smartly, writer-director Steven Silver let’s you decide that for yourself, not turning his first feature narrative, based on a true story, into a message film, rather an experience making it all the more profound.  published: 2011-04-04Wonder Con Video Interviews: The Cast And Filmmakers Of Immortals It may not be the first clique to come to mind, movie-going audiences really do seem to love watching movies about Greek mythology. Taking just a sample from the last decade, Troy, 300 and Clash of the Titans all made more than $400 million at the global box office.  published: 2011-04-04Wonder Con Interview: Cowboys & Aliens Director Jon Favreau Thanks to the vagaries of the music industry and the need to have some semblance of skill, not everyone in this world can become a famous musician. But while director Jon Favreau may never go on to the stage at Madison Square Garden and rock out a sick guitar solo, if he ever feels the need to feel like a rock star, he need go no further than a comic book convention.  published: 2011-04-03Wonder Con Video Interview: Three Musketeers' Logan Lerman It's easy to say that Logan Lerman is one of the fastest rising members of young Hollywood. Only 19 years old, he's had roles in films like The Patriot and and 3:10 To Yuma and kicked off a franchise role last year with Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.  published: 2011-04-03Wonder Con Interview: Green Lantern's Blake Lively Proving herself to be more than a young, blonde, pretty television star on Gossip Girl, Blake Lively surprised a lot of people last year starring in Ben Affleck’s The Town. Now she’s ready to jump into a whole new territory.  published: 2011-04-03Wonder Con Interview: Green Lantern's Ryan Reynolds At Friday evening at WonderCon in San Francisco, Warner Bros. unveiled the first footage from Green Lantern that we’ve seen since the trailer last November and blew absolutely everyone away. But after the footage ended, the folks in the Esplanade Ballroom were still privy to a great deal of entertainment. Why? Because few people can control a room quite like Ryan Reynolds. |
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