Review: Avengers: Age Of Ultron Has Flaws But Ultimately A Lot Of Fun
Title: Avengers: Age of Ultron Director: Joss Whedon Screenwriter: Joss Whedon (written by), Stan Lee comic book), and Jack Kirby (comic book) Principal Cast: Robert Downey Jr, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, James Spader, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, and Samuel L. Jackson Summary: When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a […]
Review: Pan Is An Insulting Mess
Title: Pan Director: Joe Wright Screenwriter: Jason Fuchs (written by) and J.M. Barrie (characters) Principal Cast: Hugh Jackman, Levi Miller, Garrett Hedlund, Rooney Mara, Adeel Akhtar, Nonso Anozie, and Amanda Seyfried Summary: 12-year-old orphan Peter is spirited away to the magical world of Neverland, where he finds both fun and dangers, and ultimately discovers his […]
Review: Ant-Man Is Like The Small Scale Movies That Marvel Began With
Title: Ant-Man Director: Peyton Reed Screenwriter: Edgar Wright (screenplay and story), Joe Cornish (screenplay and story), Adam McKay (screenplay), Paul Rudd (screenplay), Stan Lee (comic book), Larry Lieber (comic book), and Jack Kirby (comic book) Principal Cast: Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly, Corey Stoll, Bobby Carnavale, Judy Greer, Abby Ryder Fortson, and Michael Pena […]
Review: Magic Mike XXL Unabashedly Appeals To The Female Gaze
Title: Magic Mike XXL Director: Gregory Jacobs Screenwriter: Reid Carolin (written by and characters) Principal Cast Channing Tatum, Juan Piedrahita, Joe Manganiello, Kevin Nash, Matt Bomer, Amber Heard, and Jada Pinkett Smith Summary: Three years after Mike bowed out of the stripper life at the top of his game, he and the remaining Kings of […]
Review: Entourage Is A Movie No One Asked For
Title: Entourage Director: Doug Ellin Screenwriter: Doug Ellin (screenplay), Doug Ellin (story), Rob Weiss (story), and Doug Ellin (television series) Principal Cast: Kevin Connolly, Adrian Grenier, Kevin Dillon, Jerry Ferrara, Jeremy Piven, Emmanuelle Chriqui, and Perry Reeves Summary: Movie star Vincent Chase, together with his boys Eric, Turtle, and Johnny, are back – and back […]
Review: San Andreas Has Great Destruction Sequences But A Predictable Story
Title: San Andreas Director: Brad Peyton Screenwriter: Carlton Cuse (screenplay), Andre Fabrizio (story), and Jeremy Passmore (story) Principal Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Alexandra Daddario, Ioan Gruffudd, Archie Panjabi, Paul Giamatti, Hugo Johnstone-Burt, and Art Parkinson Summary: In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey across the […]
Avengers: Age of Ultron is a Smorgasbord of Awesome
Avengers: Age of Ultron Directed by: Joss Whedon Screenplay by: Joss Whedon Based on: The Avengers by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby Starring:Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Cobie Smulders, Anthony Mackie, Hayley Atwel, lIdris Elba, Stellan Skarsgård, James Spader, Samuel […]
Oh, hi there Ultron. Nice to meet you.
Entertainment Weekly broke the image, now it’s time for us to debate! [email protected]: #AgeOfUltron: On the set of @Marvel's biggest movie ever for our #SDCC preview: http://t.co/a9WRHDxauA pic.twitter.com/y3JABhefyP — Entertainment Weekly (@EW) July 16, 2014 Expect to hear much more about Avengers: Age of Ultron coming from the Marvel Studios Comic-Con panel on Saturday, July […]
Captain America: Civil War Is It Worth Your Money?
Captain America: Civil War Directors: Anthony & Joe Russo Writers: Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely Starring: Chris Evans, Robert Downy Jr., Scarlet Johansson, Sabastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Renner, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Rudd, Emily VanCamp, Tom Holland, and Daniel Brühl Stingers: 1 mid credits, 1 post credits Run time: […]
Top And Bottom Ten Movies Of 2015
Time for the top and bottom lists of the years. There are several large releases I haven’t seen such as Joy, The Big Short, and The Hateful Eight. HONORABLE MENTIONS Brooklyn Trumbo Star Wars: The Force Awakens Ant-Man Avengers: Age Ultron Jurassic World Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation The Revenant TOP TEN 10. Me, Earl, And […]
Spoilers, Social Media, And How to Not Be A Jerk
Before I got hired by WatchPlayRead I was writing my own blog, and I did an opinion piece about spoilers and social media. I thought about just linking to it again now that it has come up with the release of Star Wars but my points were a little different for that piece. That one […]
WPR’s Box Office Report: October 5th
Box Office Results from October 2-4 This weekend at the box office The Martian is the clear winner, proving that once again, audiences will pay to see Matt Damon rescued. Opening with $54.3 million it is the largest opening weekend of the Fall, thus far, and with glowing reviews it is likely to stick around for […]
WPR’s Box Office Report June 15th
All the news you might have missed: Director Justin Lin has signed a deal with Cinemax for the development of a drama series titled Warrior, inspired by writings of legendary martial artist Bruce Lee. First reported by Deadline Variety has reported that director Sofia Coppola has left production of Working Title and Universal’s live-action version of The Little Mermaid, over creative differences. Eddie […]