Overcoming a delayed release, no matter the reason, is never an easy task for a film to overcome. Any way you look at it, many films that end up being pushed back to a later date never fair too well, but Baz Luhrmann does an OK job at disproving this trend. The Great Gatsby is not a perfect adaptation by far, but there are plenty of elements in this film that avoid making it a complete disaster. Continue reading → TTRC

The weekend warrior for May 17-19, 2013 includes Star Trek Into Darkness. Box Office Battlefield is a recurring rundown of all the movie releases for the weekend. Every week, movie studios select candidates to enter the glorious battlefield for your hard earned dollars. Box Office Battlefield is here to help you decide which movie(s) will take priority over the others. Continue reading → TTRC

Opening in theaters everywhere this weekend is yet another glitz and glam film by Baz Lurhmann, The Great Gatsby. Luhrmann is no stranger to adapting famous works of literature – he has worked with Leonardo DiCaprio before in Romeo + Juliet. All of the marketing efforts leading up to the big release is that the film will be a contemporary take on the classic novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald while still taking place in the 1920s. Watch the full trailer after the break if you’d like to get a big taste of what’s in store.  Continue reading → TTRC

Whether we like it or not, these amazing set photos of Megan Fox jumping on a trampoline signify that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot is coming and there is nothing we can do about it. Based on these images alone, it’s almost as if Megan Fox was born to play this role. Now that production is finally underway, after years of pre-production shenanigans, the road to the new TMNT will be quite the interesting journey. See the rest of the set photos of Megan Fox after the break. Continue reading → TTRC

Exactly one year after Joss Whedon’s The Avengers, audiences every where have been anxiously awaiting Marvel Studios‘ Iron Man 3. You would think with how successful The Avengers has become, Iron Man 3 should have no problem coasting toward success. Financially, Iron Man 3 should do gangbusters – it already has overseas – but since Marvel has opened Pandora’s box to a greater cinematic universe, the true victory will rely on whether this film can hold up on its own without the crutch of the other Avengers. Continue reading → TTRC

The weekend warrior for May 3-5, 2013 includesIron Man 3. Box Office Battlefield is a recurring rundown of all the movie releases for the weekend. Every week, movie studios select candidates to enter the glorious battlefield for your hard earned dollars. Box Office Battlefield is here to help you decide which movie(s) will take priority over the others. Continue reading → TTRC

Movie trailers have a big influence on how we perceive the film before going in and what we feel when the credits roll. They may make the movie look utterly terrible, completely amazing, or somewhere in between, but we each go in with expectations upon viewing them. After the Fact is a look back on how the trailers may have affected the movie going experience. This column is not a review of the movie itself, but rather on the marketing techniques used to advertise the movie. Today the trailer for Pain & Gain will be under the microscope. Continue reading after the jump and expect spoilers. Continue reading → TTRC

The weekend warriors for April 26-28, 2013 includesPain & Gain and The Big Wedding, along with a few limited releases. Box Office Battlefield is a recurring rundown of all the movie releases for the weekend. Every week, movie studios select candidates to enter the glorious battlefield for your hard earned dollars. Box Office Battlefield is here to help you decide which movie(s) will take priority over the others. Continue reading → TTRC

Apparently Asgard has oxygen, which is a good thing because whether Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) likes it or not, she’s going to meet the parents. Marvel Studios released the first trailer for Thor: The Dark World staging a widely different atmosphere than the first film directed by Kenneth Branagh. Dark Elves will test The Mighty Thor. Watch the trailer after the jump. Continue reading → TTRC

There are hundreds of movie trailers released each year, which many of the films promoted we do not get the chance to see or we brush them off because of poor marketing. But if we don’t take the risk and never open our movie palettes to embrace the unknown, how will we ever know what’s good? There were plenty of movies in 2012 that I had very low expectations for, but after sitting down and watching what were assumably stinkers, I had discovered I was completely wrong to misjudge them. See the most surprising films of 2012 after the break. Continue reading → TTRC

Fans have been starving for their first glimpse of the long awaited sequelto last year’s The Hunger Games. And now the official teaser trailer for The Hunger Games: Catching Firehas been released. Those watching the MTV Movie Awards got a first look at the much anticipated return of Katniss Everdeen. Check out the official teaser trailer along with 53 screenshots after the break. Continue reading → TTRC

In less than a week, Tom Cruise will be back in futuristic action when he appears in Oblivion.From the director that brought us Tron: Legacy, Joseph Kosinski has set his sights on presenting audiences his own original sci-fi adventure. Will Kosinski prove he has more of an eye for something original than an established franchise? Watch the full theatrical trailer for Oblivion after the break. Continue reading → TTRC

There were many laughs in the Arena at the Anaheim Convention Center during WonderCon 2013 on Saturday, many of which were to the behest of Bruce Campbell, producer of Evil Dead. But laughs turned into cheers when director Fede Alvarez dropped a major bomb on fans who were hoping for more deadites and possibly the return of Ash. Beware, spoilers after the break. Continue reading → TTRC