‘Skyfall’ reasserted the franchise, but ‘Spectre’ doesn’t know how to move the character forward.

Yesterday, Sony Pictures announced that the 24th James Bond film was entitled Spectre, and would star returning cast members Daniel Craig, Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Ben Whishaw, and Rory Kinnear along with newcomers Christoph Waltz, Lea Seydoux, Dave Bautista, Andrew …

Jamie Bell and Connie Nielsen have boarded Lars Von Trier‘s upcoming two-part feature, Nymphomaniac.  Per THR, “Charlotte Gainsbourg will star as Joe, a self-diagnosed nymphomaniac. Stellan Skarsgard will play Seligman, an old, charming bachelor who finds Joe beaten up in …

This has been Jessica Chastain’s year as far as ubiquity goes.  She’s co-starred in The Tree of Life, The Help, Take Shelter, and she’s still got Texas Killing Fields and Coriolanus on the way.  However, of the films I’ve seen …

With director John Madden’s (Shakespeare in Love) The Debt finally getting released August 31, Focus Features has provided us with six clips from the film.  The reason I say finally, is that Focus acquired the flick from Miramax, so it’s …

What’s wonderful about director Lars von Trier’s films is that you never know what to expect.  Sometimes the outcome works and other times it doesn’t, but it will be a film-going experience unlike any other.  For example, his latest film …