Trailers In The Bagg – April 25th

Lawless The latest from director John Hillcoat (The Proposition, The Road) is set to compete for the Palme d’Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Lawless is based on the historical novel, The Wettest County by Matt Bondurant, which follows the story of Bondurant’s grandfather and his brothers running a bootlegging business in Virginia during Prohibition and the complications that […]

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The Hunger Games: Book to Movie Translation

I was watching a Neil deGrasse Tyson interview the other day and he was asked, as an astrophysicist, if anything bothers him about fictional science in sci-fi movies. Part of his answer was off topic, it was that he DESPISES people who go to a movie and then continually talk about the book being better. Honestly, the only way […]

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Trailers In The Bagg – April 11th

Looper (Teaser Countdown) If you haven’t heard about this one get ready because it’s about to become a top priority in your movie going future.  Director Rian Johnson, the man behind Brick and The Brothers Bloom, is about to introduce Looper.  The sci-fi thriller follows a young anti-hero, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, working as a hit […]

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Trailers In The Bagg – April 4th

Total Recall (Trailer 1) Due to my harsh treatment of the teaser, I felt I needed to feature this one front and center.  Plus, now that I have lots of footage with plot point examples, I can actually talk specifics.  At first glance, director Len Wiseman’s Total Recall is a mix between The Fifth Element and […]

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The Hunger Games Review

The Hunger Games, the new blockbuster directed by Gary Ross, is a surprising big budget picture that, unlike most popcorn films today, has a point to it other than making money.  That’s not to say the filmmakers, producers and studios are not interested in the bottom line; there is the obvious built-in audience from the […]

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