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The Messenger by Luc Besson starring Milla Jovovich (Arrow Recommends)

Posted 9 years ago

“Arrow Recommends is a column that has my sorry ass advise older movies to your royal asses. I will be flexible in terms of genres i.e. I will cover whatever the bleep I want. For now, it will be the...

Armenian genocide drama The Promise debuts new, classy poster

Posted 9 years ago

The Armenian Genocide is an important, and tragic, event that is not as well-known as you'd think. It was one of the first times in the modern era something like that was attempted (pre-empting the Holocaust and Darfur and many...

Centurion (2010) starring Michael Fassbender (Arrow Recommends)

Posted 9 years ago

"Arrow Recommends is a column that has my sorry ass advise older and at times more obscure movies to your royal asses. I will be flexible in terms of genres i.e. I will cover whatever the bleep I want. For...

To the surprise of no one, Hamilton movie is in development

Posted 9 years ago

HAMILTON is a f*cking phenomenon. I don't remember the last time a show on Broadway was talked about this much (save maybe SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE DARK, but for entirely different reasons). I still maintain that the soundtrack sounds like a...

Albert Einstein series Genius starring Geoffrey Rush releases new trailer

Posted 10 years ago

For such an enigmatic figure as Albert Einstein, it is peculiar that we haven't really had a straight up epic biopic about him (unless you count YOUNG EINSTEIN, which I do). So, while not a film, National Geographic is going to...

Bryan Cranston to play himself in James Franco’s The Masterpiece

Posted 10 years ago

My love of bad movies has been well documented. And one of the all-time greats is Tommy Wiseau's bizarre masterpiece THE ROOM. Its misplaced passion and lack of coherent scripting makes it both fascinating and fun to watch. It is certainly a...

Jared Leto cast as Andy Warhol in the cleverly-titled biopic Warhol

Posted 10 years ago

After unsuccessfully playing a real person in CHAPTER 27 (where he famously got gout trying to go "method" by gaining weight to play Mark David Chapman), Jared Leto is going to give the biopic game another go. And it seems Leto's going to...

Gary Oldman to play Winston Churchill in new Joe Wright film Darkest Hour

Posted 10 years ago

Wow! Gary Oldman will be playing none other than Winston Churchill in the new film DARKEST HOUR from director Joe Wright (PAN). This won't be the first time Gary Oldman has been cast cast as an historical figure (having played Lee Harvey Oslward...

It’s Cage vs. Shark in new trailer for USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage

Posted 10 years ago

You know, of all the Nicolas Cage disasters that have been coming out the last few years (looking at you STOLEN and PAY THE GHOST), this seems like it would be one of his least disastrous. The plot of his new movie USS...

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