We all know Hollywood has a shortage of new ideas, which is why consistently popular franchises (even ones with a fourth movie) become so valuable. It’s not even the end of May yet, and already this year has produced sequels and reboots “The Pink Panther 2,” “Friday the 13th,” “The Last House on the Left,” […]
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Dear students, It has come to my attention that some of the people who win free tickets to advance screenings on our site here are taking advantage of the situation. This is so not cool. Let me explain: Recently, we’ve been using a website to make getting free advance passes faster and easier for everybody. […]
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Ron Howard directs Tom Hanks again in this faster-paced but equally unfulfilling sequel to “The Da Vinci Code.”
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About halfway through “Angels & Demons,” I started thinking about when it would end. Admittedly, that may have had something to do with the fact that the season finale of “Lost” was waiting for me on my DVR at home, but nevertheless, that’s a bad sign for any suspense movie. “Angels & Demons” is director […]
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What is IMAX? The “fake IMAX” controversy and boycott. IMAX facts on retrofit for theaters. How big is the screen? The sound? It’s a huge Twitter trend as I write this. Comedian Aziz Ansari (from NBC’s Parks and Recreation) published this tirade about paying an extra $5 to see and IMAX showing of “Star Trek” […]
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Filming started yesterday in New Mexico on an adaptation of one of my favorite books ever, Jim Thompson’s “The Killer Inside Me.” Director Michael Winterbottom (“24 Hour Party People”) is in charge and I couldn’t be happier. It stars Casey Affleck as Lou Ford, a small-time sheriff who no one would suspect has finally started […]
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Warren J. Cantrell is a writer based out of Seattle, WA. In his email to us, he listed his interests/likes as skydiving, boat racing, bull fighting, midget wrestling, and generally staying as extreme as possible. He described himself (seriously) as “a long-gone-daddy standing seven and a half feet tall with a chin as mighty as […]
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First time directors Derick and Steven Martini show us that suburban life isn’t all its cracked up to be.
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One of the issues you often run into with films made by first time directors is a film that never quite comes together. Lymelife, written and directed by Derick and Steven Martini, does quite a bit right but also falls into a few traps that more seasoned directors could have avoided. It’s not a bad […]
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Read the facts about the “Star Trek” IMAX controversy here!! Eric Melin and guest host Billy Brimblecom review the new J.J. Abrams reboot of the “Star Trek” franchise, starring Chris Pine as Captain Kirk and Zachary Quinto as Spock. It’s part origin story, part re-do, with a lot of character and action. It also contains […]
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J.J. Abrams relaunches a tired franchise with youthful vigor, exciting action, and efficient character development to spare. Crowd-pleasing Hollywood blockbusters don’t come much more entertaining than this.
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Today’s Top 10 comes from Andrew Reed, a frequent contributor who runs the excellent Fighting the Youth blog, and currently resides in Argentina. This is a great list that I hope you all enjoy! If you have a Top 10 list you’d like to contribute to Scene-Stealers, drop me a note at eric@scene-stealers.com and let […]
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Here are some more of the winning videos from our 2009 “Star Trek” screening contest. Congrats again to the winners, and to everyone else—enjoy! Johnathan M. Reeves put together a cool “Star Trek” tribute that uses the classic theme song and superimposes the old and new actors in the series over the top of it: […]
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Eric Melin and guest host Aaron Weber from Transbuddha.com lock claws over the X-Men prequel starring Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. Does the movie live up to the hype? How does it stack up against the other X-Men movies (especially since “X2: X-Men United” is one of the best comic book adaptations of all-time)? Find out […]
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Which “Wolverine” ending did you see? Weigh in here. Watch our on-camera movie review with clips here. The thing that made Bryan Singer’s “X-Men” and its first sequel so compelling was that the team of superheroes known as the X-Men were not superheroes at all, but mutants. Born with special powers, they were looked at […]
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