Even in its rare grim moments, One for the Money is ever so mildly enjoyable and its light pace keeps things moving along rather rapidly. However, the movie’s virtually devoid of personality and doesn’t boast anything that makes it genuinely stand apart from other hybrids of crime and comedy.
Most of the early indicators in The Grey give you the sense that Neeson will do his usual solemn-faced hero routine that he executes to perfection, but the way the film unfolds (not in terms of plot, but in terms of the quality of the storytelling) asks him to go beyond that. He definitely responds.
Relativity Media would like the world to know that its remake of The Crow is still alive and kicking. The studio recently settled some legal issues with The Weinstein Company regarding the franchise and has quickly turned around and announced that Jesse Wigutow will write the film with F. Javier Gutierrez directing.
We’re looking back at films that used single settings to do something (or try to do something) unique. Not all these films are great, but they do have one thing in common: they find interesting ways to make the characters and viewers claustrophobic.
We have a decidedly unique slate of movie clips for you this week on Player Affinity. First off is the odd teaser trailer for the fifth installment in the popular video-game franchise with Resident Evil: Retribution, once again starring Milla Jovovich as the baddie-slaying mutant.
Relativity set “Mirror, Mirror” three months ahead of “Snow White and the Huntsman” in hopes of earning a box-office advantage, but now the studio looks to have some concerns with its more immediate competition as it has pushed “Mirror” back by two weeks.
In an announcement that highlights the dangers of finality in a movie title, Studiocanal has revealed it will be making a sequel to The Last Exorcism. Production is set to begin next month, with Eli Roth producing the film through Arcade Pictures.
