Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Feb 11, 2012, 1:06 am
He may have had a goofy mustache, but he also liked to impale people in his spare time A few years ago, there was a project in the works called Dracula: Year Zero, and it was to be directed by Alex Proyas and star Sam Worthington.  It was shelved after its budget started to spiral out of con...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Feb 10, 2012, 9:15 pm
Valentine's day is just around the corner, Tuesday to be exact so why not treat that signifigant someone by taking them to the movies. The Vow is the latest chick flick destined to earn as much cash as it possibly can.  I am not ashamed to say that The Vow actually looks like a pretty good g...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Feb 10, 2012, 5:23 pm
Focus Features has just released the trailer for their apocalyptic romantic comedy Seeking a Friend for the End of the World.  It will mark the directorial debut of screenwriter Lorena Scafaria (Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist) and the studio showed their support by giving her a talented...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Feb 10, 2012, 2:04 pm
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island Starring Josh Hutcherson, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Michael Caine Directed by Brad Peyton Rated PG As a movie reviewer, when I sit down and write my thoughts on a particular film, I sometimes need to alter my process.  I really can't rate...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Feb 10, 2012, 10:24 am
Attention hipsters!  On last night’s Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live, Michael Showalter seemingly confirmed that a Wet Hot American Summer sequel will indeed happen.  He responded to a twitter question on the possibly of a sequel with; “Absolutely, yes,” he said. “One hundred perc...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Feb 10, 2012, 1:19 am
You can’t begrudge any filmmaker who wants Morgan Freeman to lend their acting talents.  His narration voice work for March of the Penguins and Science Channel series Through the Wormhole, has Freeman giving the voice of god.  A role, I might add, he’s already played in Bruce Almighty. ...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Feb 9, 2012, 9:25 pm
The John le Carre best-seling spy novel turned spy film, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy earned the seriously underrated Gary Oldman an Oscar nomination for his performance, one of which I regretfully haven't seen yet.  Now former Best Actor award winner Philip Seymour Hoffman has his sights set o...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Feb 9, 2012, 5:14 pm
Quick: Name five successful actors who started as children.  Even if you can do it, it probably takes you a bit of time, and it's no surprise why.  The "washed up child actor" is one of the most infamous Hollywood tropes, one that affected even Haley Joel Osment, the Oscar nominated actor w...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Feb 9, 2012, 2:44 pm
Hey everybody, Colin is back! I don't know many people who saw Martin McDonagh's In Bruges in theaters, though everyone who did see it on DVD or what have you absolutely raved about it.  Now there's more of that good thing headed our way, as McDonagh and Colin Farrell meet up again for the n...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Feb 9, 2012, 10:25 am
Unless you've been living under a rock, you saw the Amazing Spider-Man trailer yesterday, and I have to admit it looked pretty awesome.  I was sad to see Sam Raimi's series end the way it did, but I'm starting to hope that Marc Webb's series might be good enough to replace it.  Webb recentl...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Feb 9, 2012, 1:10 am
Hollywood, I think you have a problem.  Let’s talk about overindulgence for recent blockbuster gluttony: Wrath of the Titans.  I understand there’s money to be milked out of the franchise since the remake Clash of the Titans was a box-office win, but regurgitating the plot for its seque...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Feb 8, 2012, 9:21 pm
Jason Statham is going to star in the remake of Heat, but before you blurt out “blasphemy”, it isn’t “that” Heat film.  (Thank god)  Statham has signed on to headline director Brian De Palma’s nouveau version of the Burt Reynolds’ starrer from 1986.  For those of you keeping ...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Feb 8, 2012, 5:08 pm
As all that as Jason Bourne once was, there's a newer, better, stronger version appearing this summer in The Bourne Legacy.  As Edward Norton says in this films first trailer, "Jason Bourne was just the tip of the iceberg," meaning Jeremy Renner's Aaron Cross is now top dog among the world's...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Feb 8, 2012, 2:13 pm
I have a confession to make: I never actually hated Twilight that much.  The first movie, I mean. I haven't garnered the self control to slog through any of the others.  It was definitely bad, but to me it was always bad in a forgettable way, and I never really got the whole "epitome of mov...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Feb 8, 2012, 10:20 am
Both have more than proven themselves as elite action movie stars, now Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg will possibly bring their collective A-list power together in a film for the first time ever.  Denzel is currently in negotiations to join the movie adaptation of the graphic novel 2 Gu...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Feb 8, 2012, 1:02 am
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a very busy man with three movies dropping this summer alone, plus he plans to try his hand at directing soon as well.  Deadline reported that JGL is preparing to make his directorial debut on a comedy film, which he will star opposite of the lovely Scarlett Johansson...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Feb 7, 2012, 10:19 pm
Jonah Hill out, Robbie Pickering in... Since comedy standout Jonah Hill was rumored as the director of the upcoming vampire-zombie-alien flick The Kitchen Sink we haven't heard much about it.  Now it turns out that Hill is no longer attached to make his directorial debut with the film, as De...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Feb 7, 2012, 5:15 pm
It was is arguably the most postmodern take on the history of the United States and one of the countrys most prominent president.  Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter certainly has a X factor when concerned with audience reception, even if produced by Tim Burton.  Thanks to Entertainment Weekly...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Feb 7, 2012, 2:47 pm
If you ever wanted to invest you money into something, this is the week to do so.  Not a lot of good movies out today so today is the perfect time to open a new bank account or you can invest it.  It's your choice.  But, if you're stubborn enough to go out and buy those new releases, here are the...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Feb 7, 2012, 10:28 am
The news surrounding Sony Pictures’ re-boot of the Spider-Man franchise just continues to roll in.   Just days after our own Mario Melidona reported on the release of the “Official Synopsis” and associated press conference, Sony launched this 3D trailer online for their upcoming July ...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Feb 3, 2012, 11:15 pm
Chronicle Starring Dane Deehan, Alex Russell, MichaelB. Jordan Directed by Joss Trank Rated PG-13       Yup, it’s another found footage movie.  But this time it came at the price tag of 15 million dollars, so they don’t exactly have the wh...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Feb 3, 2012, 4:51 pm
The Woman in Black Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Janet McTeer, Ciaran Hinds Directed by James Watkins Rated PG-13 The Woman in Black is solid proof that a movie doesn’t have to be original in order to be worth your time.  It’s traditional, straightforward, and predictable...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Feb 3, 2012, 10:11 am
So who’s excited for the Super Bowl on Sunday?  It’s the Pats versus the Giants, Eli Manning versus Tom Brady, New England versus New York, or is it New Jersey.  Ahh, who cares, honestly?  All I care about is the latest film releases and who will earn the most cash because I’m nerdy like th...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Feb 3, 2012, 1:14 am
Crushing cars is cool, but it's got nothing on flying... The next super hero/individuals with special abilities feature film comes out tomorrow.  Of course, I'm talking about none other than Chronicle (be sure to check out our review tomorrow), which stars three teenagers who stumble into ga...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Feb 2, 2012, 9:23 pm
All of the problems that I have with Hollywood (obsession with mass market appeal, etc.) pretty much stem from one source: budgets.  The Hollywood system, functioning as it is, simply wastes too much money, and thus has to rely on the lowest common denominator of audiences to make it back. ...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Feb 2, 2012, 5:12 pm
Elmore Leonard’s novels can make for enjoyable film adaptations (Out of Sight) or they can be convoluted messes (Be Cool).  According to Variety, John Hawkes (Winter's Bone) and Yasiin Bey (AKA Mos Def) have been cast as Ordell Robbie and Louis Gara in the upcoming Switch.  Switch is adap...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Feb 2, 2012, 2:37 pm
This kind of news couldn’t be any better.  Ridley Scott is considering to direct The Counselor from Cormac McCarthy.  Freeze-frame fist pump!  Scott plans to follow up with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author McCarthy (the writer behind No Country For Old Men, The Road, All the Pretty Hor...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Feb 2, 2012, 10:17 am
As painfully bad as G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra was, it's sequel, Retaliation has made all the right moves thus far in distancing itself from that disaster.  The decision to cast The Rock and Bruce Willis as the leads instead of relying solely on the mumbling beef cake Channing Tatum was the...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Feb 2, 2012, 1:10 am
We saw Matt Damon play a real psychic in Clint Eastwood's Hereafter, now we see the opposite side of the spectrum with Red Lights.  Sigourney Weaver and Cillian Murphy star as a psychologist and her assistant who study the paranormal, specifically investigating individuals with genuine psych...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Feb 1, 2012, 9:24 pm
In Hollywood, old is sometimes new and the new for today is the casting of three Hollywood legends (i.e old) to appear in Stand Up Guys.  THR is reporting that Oscar winning producer Fisher Stevens (The Cove) will have the pleasure of directing Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin in...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Feb 1, 2012, 5:13 pm
James Badge Dale, Frank Grillo You may have recently seen Frank Grillo as the asshole plane crash survivor opposite of Liam Neeson and others in The Grey.  He could also be spotted as Joel Edgerton's MMA trainer in Warrior.  Grillo must've made a lasting impression on Grey director Joe Carn...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Feb 1, 2012, 2:52 pm
Oh, Hollywood.  Just how do you manage to be so... Hollywood-like?  Remember how absurd it seemed when it was announced that a movie version of the classic board game Battleship with aliens and Liam Neeson would be made?  Well, you ain't seen nothing yet, because a live action adaptation...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Feb 1, 2012, 10:10 am
We’ve already ventured into eerie territory when Julianne Moore and Ed Harris have had the miracle of prosthetics transform them into Sarah Palin and John McCain, respectively.  As much as Palin has become a polarizing political and cultural figure since the last election, there’s a cert...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Jan 31, 2012, 9:20 pm
Everything surrounding Steven Soderbergh is big news as he counts down the days until his self-imposed retirement.  In today’s news, courtesy of Variety, we learn that the lovely Rooney Mara will be replacing Blake Lively in his upcoming Side Effects.  She will join Jude Law, Channing Tat...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Jan 31, 2012, 5:06 pm
With this summer’s successful continuation of the X-Men franchise, Matthew Vaughn has been officially brought back as the director for the X-Men: First Class sequel.  Also returning is screenwriter Simon Kinberg and Bryan Singer as producer.  Many would’ve been surprised had there not b...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Jan 31, 2012, 2:16 pm
What is there to say about this weeks DVD releases?  Not much except for Drive, which was my favorite film of 2011.  So as you can tell, I am so excited to finally buy this film to have my family endure the pain of watching Ryan Gosling stare into Carey Mulligan's eyes for fifteen minutes at a tim...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Jan 31, 2012, 10:21 am
HBO's Game of Thrones was easily the best new TV series in 2011, and now on April 1st the second season based on the popular novels is set to launch.  Today we have the new teaser trailer for this incredibly awesome show and guess what?  It's incredibly awesome too!  The first season ended...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Jan 31, 2012, 1:08 am
Joe Carnahan's slow rise through the ranks of elite Hollywood directors was given a shot in the arm with The Grey starring Liam Neeson (see our review here), which opened last Friday.  While I was a little disappointed with the film overall, it still had me on the edge of my seat the whole t...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Jan 30, 2012, 10:17 pm
I couldn't actually find a good picture for this movie, so here's something just as awesome If you have 1/10th of the cynicism I do, you go through your day thinking that you meet a lot of stupid people.  Most of those people are probably thinking the same thing about us, but we know that t...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Jan 30, 2012, 5:06 pm
If you weren't convinced that David Fincher was an amazing visual director before, the opening credits sequence of his recent The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo should be enough to convince you otherwise. Amazing credits sequences, in fact, are something of a trademark for the director, going al...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Jan 26, 2012, 2:11 pm
Director Todd Phillips has cracked me up with past movies like The Hangover and Old School.  Now he takes a turn as producer on a new teenagers gone wild party movie Project X, which looked like absolute crap in the films first trailer.  However, this newest preview shows a much funnier pre...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Jan 26, 2012, 10:27 am
Well, this poster is salvageable, it has Brooklyn Decker. What is there to say about What To Expect When You're Expecting?  The film hasn't been released yet and I already hate it.  Ok, well I don't hate the film but it does feel as though, just by watching the trailer, that I'll be enjoyin...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Jan 26, 2012, 1:21 am
I love Edgar Allan Poe.  There's no beating any of his richly dramatic and nearly tragic end for many of his short stories.  In particular, his most famous poem "The Raven" has been adapted into the John Cusack movie that has little to do with the particular poem, but a combination of the a...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Jan 25, 2012, 7:10 pm
First of all, I want to thank all of our readers who log-on to Get The Big Picture everyday for movie news and reviews.  I recognize many of you have been here since Colin first started the site and while it might take some time to build a great staff of writers to match Colin's talents, I w...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Jan 25, 2012, 5:30 pm
Certainly there have been unsettling and horrific movie moments that have resulted in many of us damn near blowing chunks or passing out.  Maybe the Saw franchise left you nauseous.  For me, recently opting to spend money on Steven Soderbergh's Haywire created an uneasy feeling in stomach....
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Jan 25, 2012, 2:51 pm
There are plenty of Liam Neeson fans out there, and they're excited to see his upcoming survival thriller The Grey.  But, another movie this year that many fans were hoping Liam Neeson would play an action-heavy part in is The Dark Knight Rises, reprising his Batman Begins villain, Ra's Al G...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Jan 25, 2012, 10:25 am
The Grey starring Liam Neeson crashes into theaters this Friday January 27th, and I for one am quite jacked up to see it.  The new red band trailer we have today isn't making the wait any easier.  In fact, after experiencing it in all of its glory I'll now be a million times more inclined t...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Jan 25, 2012, 1:06 am
The internet is buzzing with this bit of news.  Jenny Agutter (Logan's Run, An American Werewolf in London) has been cast as a council member for Marvel’s The Avengers, directed by Joss Whedon.  She may have let slip the possible appearance of a certain comic book character that is NOT fe...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Jan 24, 2012, 10:20 pm
On the same day that The Academy Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the 84th Academy Awards, three simple words may have caused just as much online buzz.  When Edgar Wright sent the below twit-pic into the crazy viral dimension of the internet, it activated nerd-alar...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Jan 24, 2012, 5:27 pm
After you read up on who received a nomination at this year's Oscar's, you may or may not want to leave your house to pick up a movie or two.  None of the films released today, however, were not nominated for any award at this year's ceremony, except a technical award for Real Steel.  Because I ha...
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