Gosling plays the youngest son?
Watch Despicable Me 2 Online So we decided to make it a little complicated in our discussion of patriotic movies this Fourth of July. Imagine this. You're challenged with sending a probe out into space to explain America to some alien species that has never heard of us. Assume that the basics of what humanity is, what countries are, etc. have been explained somewhere else. This is just a challenge to get across the idea of America-- as a country, as an ideal, as a place where movies are made-- to someone who has never heard of it. To do so, you're allowed to ship the entire works of a single filmmaker… along with the filmmaker themselves. So not only do the movies have to speak for themselves, but you can get the man or woman themselves, with either their big personality or their own ideas about their work to help explain this weird country.
Watch The Lone Ranger Online Who would you pick? The obvious list of great American directors come to mind, and any of them would be great picks-- John Ford gets the iconography and idealism of the West better than just about anybody, Frank Capra defines the spirit of optimism and community values, and Steven Spielberg has absorbed the decades of films that came before him to make some of the most beloved American films of all time. You can go historical, picking pioneer D.W. Griffith or English immigrant Charlie Chaplin, or modern-- what screams "America" louder than the rippling flags in Michael Bay's action scenes?
Watch The Heat Online It's a tough question, and one we've enjoyed chewing over ourselves. Check out responses from four of us, and then jump into the comments to share your own picks-- along with any particular movies you think are just right for this holiday. Happy Fourth of July everyone! Get outside and grill something-- but come back inside and watch a movie with us, too. That jittery impulse to just leave you get most of the way through your senior year of high school when you just can’t take it anymore. The nervous worry you get as a child when a weird relative is staying in your house. The irrational anger and need to swear you get after continually being delayed at the airport. John Hughes is the most American director, not because he’s the loudest or the flashiest or because he includes the most fireworks or montages to the troops, he’s the most American because his filmography gives voice to all the little eccentricities and emotions that make the American experience wonderful and frustrating and downright hilarious.
Watch Fast and Furious 6 Online If capturing the spirit of the country and what it truly means to be a citizen is what determines a filmmaker as a quintessential American director, then Martin Scorsese is certainly more than qualified – he just happens to explore the darker side of what that means. Over the course of his 30 year career he has dug into not only some of the most important time periods of this nation – from the traumatic post-Vietnam era seen in Taxi Driver to the fractured and violent mid-19th century in Gangs of New York – but also the incredibly potent idea of the “American Dream” and how it can be devastatingly corrupted, portrayed in films like Goodfellas and Casino. Scorsese’s America perhaps isn’t the way all of us want to see our country, but that doesn’t make the perspective any less vital.
Watch Monsters University Online The eyes of the nation and the whole world are fixed on this historical social experiment, an endeavor fraught with suspicion and fear. In the mayhem of the first day, Emery is amazed to learn that Roman was not killed by the authorities and is, in fact, one of the Atrian students. Their childhood bond is quickly rekindled. In a school and a society that distrusts everything about the Atrians, Emery and Roman have found each other again. However, their relationship is threatened by the small-mindedness of their respective communities and the political agendas of people in power. While the world around them rages with anger and prejudice, their bond becomes increasingly strong and increasingly dangerous. As an epic Romeo and Juliet romance unfolds, a violent encounter between their two families could threaten their relationship. Can Roman and Emery's love-and peace between the species-survive? The cast and producers offer an exclusive first look at the series, followed by a panel discussion.
Watch The Way Way Back Online Well, this is interesting, for so many reasons. 20th Century Fox has released a new Japanese poster for James Mangold’s The Wolverine, which ComingSoon shares, that raises so many interesting questions by showing subtle hints in what’s really a basic, straightforward headshot that still manages to say a lot. The first question is the most obvious: Why does Logan (Hugh Jackman) need a Samurai sword when he has claws jutting out of each hand? Yes, yes … I know that Mangold’s movie adapts one of Wolverine’s most beloved storylines that carries him to Japan where he explores the roots of his innate savagery (and trains with lethal ninjas). But I really hope that the film, and the director, take a moment to explain – even playfully – why Wolverine would need to bother with a sword when he has six smaller ones of his own.
Watch Now You See Me Online Gosling plays the youngest son of a sadistic mother figure (played with campy ice by Kristin Scott Thomas), who is ordered on a mission of vengeance when a local crime boss (Vithaya Pansringarm) kills the woman’s oldest child. Good premise, and one that Gosling and Refn easily could sink their teeth into, right? Except when the movie played in France, audiences booed (normal in Cannes) and the critics left Gosling looking like this:
Few journos on site were quite as scathing as Hollywood-Elsewhere curmudgeon Jeff Wells, who infamously wrote: Movies really don’t get much worse than Nicholas Winding Refn‘s Only God Forgives. It’s a {omitted}{omitted}{omitted}{omitted} macho fantasy — hyperviolent, ethically repulsive, sad, nonsensical, deathly dull, snail-paced, idiotic, possibly woman-hating, visually suffocating, pretentious. I realize I sound like Rex Reed on one of his rants, but trust me, please — this is a defecation by an over-praised, over-indulged director who thinks anything he craps out is worthy of your time. I felt violated, shat upon, sedated, narcotized, appalled and bored stiff.Secondly, is that the Eiffel Tower reflected back at us in the sword? Maybe I’m just not familiar enough with Japan’s architecture, and it’s VERY possible that Wolverine’s sword is reflecting back a recognizable landmark from the Asian country. But I’ve studied the image in the poster, and it sure looks like the Eiffel Tower to me. Does that hint, somewhat, to the Paris tragedy that Bryan Singer has hinted at in his X-Men: Days of Future Past Tweets? That would be a reach. Or would it?
Fox and Jackman have been very busy raising awareness for this Wolverine movie, which the actor hints might be his last effort as a standalone Wolvie film (though that doesn’t mean he won’t show up in multiple X-Men movies, especially if Singer stays on board). In the meantime, the studio has cut multiple TV spots and international trailers, all of which tease new cuts of familiar footage. You can see most of it here:I’m still not sold on Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives. I’m also not ready to throw in the towel. Not completely. Not yet. Yes, his most recent film Drive was a stylishly violent concoction, and that appears to be what Refn and Ryan Gosling are going for again in this neon-drenched vengeance tale. But the reviews out of Cannes where the movie has its debut … man, they were vicious. Just brutal. Could the movie be better than advertised. Of course, and the latest trailer – posted above via Empire – goes a long way toward telling me that Only God Forgives can’t be as bad as Cannes critics make it out to be.
Watch Despicable Me 2 Online So we decided to make it a little complicated in our discussion of patriotic movies this Fourth of July. Imagine this. You're challenged with sending a probe out into space to explain America to some alien species that has never heard of us. Assume that the basics of what humanity is, what countries are, etc. have been explained somewhere else. This is just a challenge to get across the idea of America-- as a country, as an ideal, as a place where movies are made-- to someone who has never heard of it. To do so, you're allowed to ship the entire works of a single filmmaker… along with the filmmaker themselves. So not only do the movies have to speak for themselves, but you can get the man or woman themselves, with either their big personality or their own ideas about their work to help explain this weird country.
Watch The Lone Ranger Online Who would you pick? The obvious list of great American directors come to mind, and any of them would be great picks-- John Ford gets the iconography and idealism of the West better than just about anybody, Frank Capra defines the spirit of optimism and community values, and Steven Spielberg has absorbed the decades of films that came before him to make some of the most beloved American films of all time. You can go historical, picking pioneer D.W. Griffith or English immigrant Charlie Chaplin, or modern-- what screams "America" louder than the rippling flags in Michael Bay's action scenes?
Watch The Heat Online It's a tough question, and one we've enjoyed chewing over ourselves. Check out responses from four of us, and then jump into the comments to share your own picks-- along with any particular movies you think are just right for this holiday. Happy Fourth of July everyone! Get outside and grill something-- but come back inside and watch a movie with us, too. That jittery impulse to just leave you get most of the way through your senior year of high school when you just can’t take it anymore. The nervous worry you get as a child when a weird relative is staying in your house. The irrational anger and need to swear you get after continually being delayed at the airport. John Hughes is the most American director, not because he’s the loudest or the flashiest or because he includes the most fireworks or montages to the troops, he’s the most American because his filmography gives voice to all the little eccentricities and emotions that make the American experience wonderful and frustrating and downright hilarious.
Watch Fast and Furious 6 Online If capturing the spirit of the country and what it truly means to be a citizen is what determines a filmmaker as a quintessential American director, then Martin Scorsese is certainly more than qualified – he just happens to explore the darker side of what that means. Over the course of his 30 year career he has dug into not only some of the most important time periods of this nation – from the traumatic post-Vietnam era seen in Taxi Driver to the fractured and violent mid-19th century in Gangs of New York – but also the incredibly potent idea of the “American Dream” and how it can be devastatingly corrupted, portrayed in films like Goodfellas and Casino. Scorsese’s America perhaps isn’t the way all of us want to see our country, but that doesn’t make the perspective any less vital.
Watch Monsters University Online The eyes of the nation and the whole world are fixed on this historical social experiment, an endeavor fraught with suspicion and fear. In the mayhem of the first day, Emery is amazed to learn that Roman was not killed by the authorities and is, in fact, one of the Atrian students. Their childhood bond is quickly rekindled. In a school and a society that distrusts everything about the Atrians, Emery and Roman have found each other again. However, their relationship is threatened by the small-mindedness of their respective communities and the political agendas of people in power. While the world around them rages with anger and prejudice, their bond becomes increasingly strong and increasingly dangerous. As an epic Romeo and Juliet romance unfolds, a violent encounter between their two families could threaten their relationship. Can Roman and Emery's love-and peace between the species-survive? The cast and producers offer an exclusive first look at the series, followed by a panel discussion.
Watch The Way Way Back Online Well, this is interesting, for so many reasons. 20th Century Fox has released a new Japanese poster for James Mangold’s The Wolverine, which ComingSoon shares, that raises so many interesting questions by showing subtle hints in what’s really a basic, straightforward headshot that still manages to say a lot. The first question is the most obvious: Why does Logan (Hugh Jackman) need a Samurai sword when he has claws jutting out of each hand? Yes, yes … I know that Mangold’s movie adapts one of Wolverine’s most beloved storylines that carries him to Japan where he explores the roots of his innate savagery (and trains with lethal ninjas). But I really hope that the film, and the director, take a moment to explain – even playfully – why Wolverine would need to bother with a sword when he has six smaller ones of his own.
Watch Now You See Me Online Gosling plays the youngest son of a sadistic mother figure (played with campy ice by Kristin Scott Thomas), who is ordered on a mission of vengeance when a local crime boss (Vithaya Pansringarm) kills the woman’s oldest child. Good premise, and one that Gosling and Refn easily could sink their teeth into, right? Except when the movie played in France, audiences booed (normal in Cannes) and the critics left Gosling looking like this:
Few journos on site were quite as scathing as Hollywood-Elsewhere curmudgeon Jeff Wells, who infamously wrote: Movies really don’t get much worse than Nicholas Winding Refn‘s Only God Forgives. It’s a {omitted}{omitted}{omitted}{omitted} macho fantasy — hyperviolent, ethically repulsive, sad, nonsensical, deathly dull, snail-paced, idiotic, possibly woman-hating, visually suffocating, pretentious. I realize I sound like Rex Reed on one of his rants, but trust me, please — this is a defecation by an over-praised, over-indulged director who thinks anything he craps out is worthy of your time. I felt violated, shat upon, sedated, narcotized, appalled and bored stiff.Secondly, is that the Eiffel Tower reflected back at us in the sword? Maybe I’m just not familiar enough with Japan’s architecture, and it’s VERY possible that Wolverine’s sword is reflecting back a recognizable landmark from the Asian country. But I’ve studied the image in the poster, and it sure looks like the Eiffel Tower to me. Does that hint, somewhat, to the Paris tragedy that Bryan Singer has hinted at in his X-Men: Days of Future Past Tweets? That would be a reach. Or would it?
Fox and Jackman have been very busy raising awareness for this Wolverine movie, which the actor hints might be his last effort as a standalone Wolvie film (though that doesn’t mean he won’t show up in multiple X-Men movies, especially if Singer stays on board). In the meantime, the studio has cut multiple TV spots and international trailers, all of which tease new cuts of familiar footage. You can see most of it here:I’m still not sold on Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives. I’m also not ready to throw in the towel. Not completely. Not yet. Yes, his most recent film Drive was a stylishly violent concoction, and that appears to be what Refn and Ryan Gosling are going for again in this neon-drenched vengeance tale. But the reviews out of Cannes where the movie has its debut … man, they were vicious. Just brutal. Could the movie be better than advertised. Of course, and the latest trailer – posted above via Empire – goes a long way toward telling me that Only God Forgives can’t be as bad as Cannes critics make it out to be.
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