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 […]
Meeting the Criterion (Collection): #594 Godzilla, Part 2
Godzilla: King of the Monsters! (1956), directed by Terry Morse, Spine #594 of the Criterion Collection. Generally I avoid comparing and contrasting films in my reviews since a film should be able to stand on its own. Yet I’m compelled to point out the differences between the 1954 Japanese original Godzilla and the 1956 American […]
Trailers In The Bagg – April 18th: Overloaded!
Today I’m going to try something a bit different. Over the past few weeks I’ve missed some trailers, haven’t had time to post others, or was forced to skip those that debuted on an inconvenient day. This just will not do. There are too many and we must watch them all! How else are we […]
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 […]
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 […]
Meeting the Criterion (Collection): #594 Godzilla
Godzilla (1954), directed by Ishiro Honda, Spine #594 of the Criterion Collection I must qualify this post and the next. This will be Part 1 of my review of Godzilla since there are actually two films included on the Criterion Collection Blu-Ray. The first is the original 1954 Japanese horror film Godzilla, the second is […]
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 […]
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 […]