Face Off: Best Modern Movie Spy (Finals)
Welcome back to Player Affinity’s modern movie spy battle royale. Round 1 concluded with four operatives proving they were the best in their field, and now it’s time for the face-offs.
Welcome back to Player Affinity’s modern movie spy battle royale. Round 1 concluded with four operatives proving they were the best in their field, and now it’s time for the face-offs.
Act of Valor should be labeled more as an experience than it should be touted as a wholly successful cinematic outing. There is a certain novelty to seeing real-live active Navy SEALs starring in an action vehicle rather than your stock Hollywood muscle-head, but when all is said and done, glossy gimmick is really the highest level the film achieves.
Like any project involving J.J. Abrams, the sequel to 2009’s Star Trek remains a mystery in many ways. Now we have some photographic evidence as to what’s going on.
While The Secret World of Arrietty gets points for its visual aesthetics, what could have been a wonderfully fresh take on a classic tale lamentably fails to tackle any new ground and seems content with its own mediocrity.
The moment is finally here; it’s time to make our final 2012 Oscar predictions. We’ve listed our individual picks with some thoughts to back them up. We guarantee nothing, but you better believe we know our stuff.
Yesterday we heard that the Academy had “banned” Sacha Baron Cohen from attending this year’s Oscars. The chameleon-like comic actor wanted to show up on the red carpet as Admiral General Aladeen, the lead character from his upcoming comedy The Dictator.
Too often, Albert Nobbs falls into melodramatic traps, yet two stellar (and Oscar-nominated) performances from Glenn Close and Janet McTeer light up the screen in such a way that one can’t help but recommend the film.
