Reel Reviews

Conventional wisdom holds that the growing world popularity of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing protocol since its inception in 2003, is the main culprit in the slumping U.S. movie box office. And that assumption, bolstered by the incessant harping from the movie studios about their struggle...

Aardman Animations, the outfit behind many recent stop-motion "clay-mation" films such as Chicken Run, the Wallace & Gromit series, Flushed Away, and most recently, Arthur Christmas, is coming under fire for a scene from its upcoming animated 3D film...

Just one short day after settling the lawsuit that had held up production of the much talked about remake of The Crow, Relativity Media have announced that F. Javier Gutierrez has been brought on board to direct the ...

Finally, the kind of movie sequel news we like to hear. Not typically a practitioner of the "discretion is the better part of valor" ideology, Hollywood is showing a bit of unexpected bravery with word coming down that Kristen Wiig et. al. are taking a pass on ...

Sequels have always had a lot of pressure behind them.  To add to that pressure, it’s a sequel from a rebooted, iconic TV and movie franchise with an almost cult-like following.  That’s right, Star Trek 2 is on its way.  J.J. Abrams (Super 8) brought the Enterprise back to the final frontier over two years ago complete ...

This weekend marks the release of the long-gestating George Lucas passion project Red Tails, a biopic of sorts about the Tuskeegee airmen who battled racism to fly fighter planes for their country during WWII. The film itself has been through its own uphill battle to see the light of day in theaters...

We knew Christopher Nolan's forthcoming Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises would be the hottest film release of 2012, but we didn't know it would be this hot.  Several IMAX midnight premieres for the third and final installment in the Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy have already sold out… 7 months before the film opens!...

Yet another brilliant horror film of the past will succumb to the filthy Hollywood remake machine when the Brian DePalma/Sissy Spacek high school bullying classic Carrie gets a revisit, this time by MGM and Screen Gems. The Carrie project was first hinted at last Spring when it was reported...

Netflix's movement to become a legitimate playing in the original programming arena takes another step forward this February when its original series Lilyhammer will hit the internet. We first learned of Lilyhammer back in October when Chief Content Officer Ted Serandos sat down at MIPCOM and announced ...

Paramount Pictures had the best movies of 2011. That is, if big box office take equals "best." With a huge slate of financially successful films released throughout last year, including Michael Bay's mega-hit Transformers film, the relaunch of the Mission: Impossible franchise, and its first original ...

As the curtain falls on the 2011 movie season, it's not only time to reflect back upon all the salted pretzels eaten, the gallons of soda chugged, and the tubs of artery-clogging gelatinous goo (posing as hot butter) poured over calorie-loaded coconut-oil-cooked popcorn, but it's also the...

NBC is reviving the classic '60s comedy The Munsters and will present it as a weekly comedy/drama. Bryan Fuller of Pushing Daisies fame has written the story loosely based on the original but with a modern twist, while Bryan Singer (Superman Returns) will produce and direct the pilot...