tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28303131739190087222026-05-26T14:14:57.418-04:00Punch Drunk CriticsTravis Hopsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530865388076978095noreply@blogger.comBlogger31532125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830313173919008722.post-78912336412319442952020-03-01T17:17:00.000-05:002020-03-01T17:17:12.590-05:00Podcast: Talking THE INVISIBLE MAN, EMMA., INDIANA JONES 5, She-Hulk, GUNS AKIMBO & More
On this week's show, Travis and John review Blumhouse's THE INVISIBLE MAN, quickly give their thoughts on EMMA., and talk about the future of INDIANA JONES 5 without Steven Spielberg in the director's chair. Is James Mangold a step in the right direction, or what? Also, those She-Hulk rumors with Alison Brie, the Guns AKIMBO controversy, and more.
Follow the Punch Drunk Critics and Cinema Travis Hopsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530865388076978095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830313173919008722.post-31792159283878164892020-03-01T12:58:00.000-05:002020-03-01T12:58:51.683-05:00Box Office: 'The Invisible Man' Opens Eyes With $49M Worldwide
1. The Invisible Man (review)- $29M
Blumhouse and Universal's horror reimagining The Invisible Man made itself quite seen with a $29M domestic debut, part of a $49M worldwide weekend. That should help take some of the sting of Fantasy Island's lousy launch just a couple of weeks ago for Blumhouse. In my review, I asked the question what Universal's "Dark Universe" brand might've been if it hadTravis Hopsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530865388076978095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830313173919008722.post-89894794226585617792020-02-29T06:31:00.002-05:002020-02-29T06:31:54.228-05:00'Y: The Last Man' Series Adds 'Warcraft' Star Ben Schnetzer As Yorick Brown
FX's Y: The Last Man series, officially just-titled Y, has had its share of problems getting off the ground. The latest hurdle saw star Barry Keoghan drop out, leaving the show in the lurch for a few weeks. But now it's being reported that Warcraft actor Barry Schnetzer has been cast to replace him, taking on the role of Yorick Brown.
Schnetzer joins the adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan and PiaTravis Hopsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530865388076978095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830313173919008722.post-14368092946536524432020-02-28T14:59:00.000-05:002020-02-28T14:59:21.122-05:00SyFy Expands Its Original Series Offerings With 'Day of the Dead' and 'The Surrealtor'
Everyone's got OC these days...if you don't have some serious scripted content of your own you just aren't running with the big boys. Sure, there's the Breaking Bad and Mad Men of the world but some of my favorite shows from the last 10 years have been rather offbeat type shows on specialized channels. The shows that you KNOW wouldn't have even made it past the pitch stage back in the John Nolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02832483097209490182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830313173919008722.post-2844864952535161622020-02-28T14:43:00.000-05:002020-03-01T11:52:25.320-05:00Review: 'EMMA.' Anya Taylor-Joy And Johnny Flynn Breathe Sexy New Life Into This Austen Classic
Handsome. Clever. Rich. Though those words were penned by Jane Austen to describe the titular character Emma in her beloved comedy, they certainly describe Focus Features’ newest adaption of the same work.EMMA. is certainly handsome with gorgeous costumes and set design, pops of color seem to fly off the screen. It’s clever, using sexuality as a way to bring out an unseen side of the Cortland Jacobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12330399653577631444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830313173919008722.post-10650550919007170432020-02-28T13:22:00.003-05:002020-02-28T13:25:19.289-05:00Review: ‘The Whistlers’, A Film Noir Where No One Is Clean As A Whistle
Mobsters and the police hunting them down. Corruption and deceit.
Surveillance, backstabbing, robberies, and of course…whistling – what else
would you expect from a modern-day film noir? Well writer/director Corneliu
Porumboiu gives us all of this and more in The Whistlers.
Cristi (Vlad Ivanov), a narcotics detective, gets pulled into
a seedy web of crime – and at the center of it is Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830313173919008722.post-91640017382766944752020-02-28T13:07:00.000-05:002020-02-28T13:07:06.933-05:00'Radium Girls' Trailer: Joey King And Abby Quinn Expose A Radium Scandal
Worker rights is one of those issues we tend to take for granted, but the safe working conditions we have were earned by those who fought, and often died, to get them. One of these great American stories that has gone mostly unnoticed gets its due on the big screen with Radium Girls, which stars the promising duo of actresses Joey King and Abby Quinn.
If you don't know, the "Radium Girls" Travis Hopsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530865388076978095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830313173919008722.post-11438862741884482492020-02-28T12:29:00.002-05:002020-02-28T12:29:53.146-05:00Alison Brie Give Awkward Denial Of Recent She-Hulk Rumors
Rumors are something that must be wade through like a thick bog every single day, but that goes double or even triple whenever Marvel has a new project in the works. Most of those stories turn out to be crap, and you just gotta pick what sounds real and roll with it. One rumor that gained traction recently had Alison Brie being eyed for the role of She-Hulk in Marvel's Disney+ series, Travis Hopsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530865388076978095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830313173919008722.post-47407442448246277642020-02-28T10:34:00.000-05:002020-02-28T10:34:06.015-05:00Review: 'Disappearance At Clifton Hill', Kidnapping Mystery Fizzles Out Despite Strong Performances
A troubled young woman named Abby (Tuppence Middleton) returns to her hometown of Niagara Falls, where the memory of a long-ago kidnapping quickly ensnares her.
Albert Shin's latest feature film Disappearance at Clifton Hill starts off with a bang. A creepy opening lets us in on an unnerving scene. A young child is with her family in the Niagara Falls area taking pictures with one Caillou Pettishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10254470851714902381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830313173919008722.post-47058298968293443302020-02-28T10:26:00.000-05:002020-02-28T10:26:29.859-05:00'The High Note' Trailer: Dakota Johnson & Tracee Ellis Ross Star In Music Comedy From 'Late Night' Director
Almost exactly one year after her comedy Late Night was a big festival darling, director Nisha Ganatra returns with another film centered on women in the entertainment industry. The High Note (formerly titled Covers) pairs up Tracee Ellis Ross and Dakota Johnson in a music world comedy about a superstar singer and her personal assistant with dreams of making it big.
The dynamic between Ross Travis Hopsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530865388076978095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830313173919008722.post-88696905618146196582020-02-28T07:32:00.001-05:002020-02-28T07:32:44.077-05:00Kevin Hart To Lead Action-Comedy From 'Broad City' Duo And 'Night School' Director Malcolm D. Lee
Kevin Hart attaches himself to so many projects it's tough to keep track, and certainly to get excited about any of them. Well, here's another one, an action-comedy from Broad City duo Lucia Aniello and Paul W. Downs.
An untitled action-comedy starring Hart is in the works, based on an original story idea from Broad City writers/exec-producers Lucia Aniello and Paul W. Downs. The film Travis Hopsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530865388076978095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830313173919008722.post-62757711409312987882020-02-28T00:57:00.001-05:002020-02-28T00:57:18.365-05:00Ben Affleck Says 'The Accountant' Follow-up Could Be A TV Series
The Accountant came out of nowhere in 2016 to be a big hit for Ben Affleck and director Gavin O'Connor. The unusual hitman film, about a savant who cooks the books for his clients during the day, then works as a paid killer during his off-hours, earned $155M and had its fans expecting a sequel. However, the next reunion of Affleck and O'Connor will be next week's drama, The Way Back. Does thatTravis Hopsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530865388076978095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830313173919008722.post-58121023728218778722020-02-27T17:56:00.000-05:002020-02-27T17:56:32.175-05:00'The Last Vermeer' Trailer: Post-WWII Art World Thriller Stars Claes Bang, Vicky Krieps, & Guy Pearce
Whether it be Monuments Men or Woman in Gold, we've seen different takes on the WWII drama, focusing on lost pieces of art stolen by the Nazis. Now, you can add The Last Vermeer to this unique little subgenre, and with a cast led by Claes Bang (The Square), Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread), and Guy Pearce, this could be one worth treasuring.
Based on a true story, the film centers on the Travis Hopsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530865388076978095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830313173919008722.post-74700935062173955592020-02-27T17:21:00.001-05:002020-02-27T17:21:35.745-05:00DC Readers: Attend A Free Early Screening Of 'The Way Back'
We're happy to offer our DC readers the chance to attend a free early screening of The Way Back, a story of redemption starring Ben Affleck and directed by Gavin O'Connor (Miracle, The Accountant).
SYNOPSIS: Jack Cunningham (Ben Affleck) once had a life filled with promise. In high school, he was a basketball phenom with a full ride to college, when suddenly, for reasons unknown, he walked Travis Hopsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530865388076978095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830313173919008722.post-48397372241302113912020-02-27T16:46:00.000-05:002020-02-27T16:46:01.970-05:00'The Last Duel': Set Photos Of Medieval Ben Affeck, Matt Damon, And Adam Driver Are Too Good To Be Missed
We sorta stopped posting set photos a few years ago other than in very rare, exceptional cases. They're more hassle than they're worth, and frankly, directors have gotten smart enough to put a bunch of fake shit out there to screw with the photo-happy fans hanging around the set. So basically it's a judgement call if they're worth posting, and in the case of The Last Duel I'm pulling rank Travis Hopsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530865388076978095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830313173919008722.post-14617741196533573052020-02-27T16:00:00.000-05:002020-02-27T16:00:22.843-05:00The Fight For Freedom Continues In The Trailer For 'Robert The Bruce'
What is it about Scottish history that's so primed for big screen adaptations? Robert the Bruce in particular is really having his day in the spotlight, with this being the second movie in a two year period based on his life (the first being Chris Pine's Outlaw King). I'm honestly not sure if this is a coincidence or if this is intended as a sequel to Braveheart but the Scottish legend isJohn Nolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02832483097209490182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830313173919008722.post-47752071733027844862020-02-27T14:26:00.000-05:002020-02-27T14:26:35.329-05:00'The Eddy' Teaser: Damien Chazelle's Netflix Series Walks Us Through The Jazzy Side Of Paris
That the opening teaser for Damien Chazelle's Netflix series The Eddy should be lit up with the sounds of Paris' jazz scene should come as no surprise. The criminally-underrated First Man aside, Chazelle is fascinated by the world of music, whether it be Miles Teller's brutal drum solos in Whiplash, or the reimagining of classic Hollywood sound in La La Land.
In the debut footage we follow Travis Hopsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530865388076978095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830313173919008722.post-65703908387270996092020-02-27T13:49:00.000-05:002020-02-27T13:49:12.789-05:00Review: 'Burden', Garrett Hedlund Seeks Redemption In Unfocused But Well-Meaning Race Drama
*NOTE: This is a reprint of my review from the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Burden opens in theaters tomorrow, February 28th. *
Nowadays the KKK aren't dressed in hoods burning torches on front lawns; they're in boardrooms and college universities carrying tiki torches. So Andrew Heckler's comically overwrought drama Burden, which is set in 1996, feels old fashioned right from jump Travis Hopsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530865388076978095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830313173919008722.post-66149991388065527992020-02-27T12:47:00.000-05:002020-02-27T12:47:06.185-05:00Josh Brolin To Lead Amazon Mystery Series 'Outer Range' With Brad Pitt As Producer
The era of prestige TV means it's no longer weird to find the biggest Hollywood stars both producing and starring in projects for the small screen. Case in point: Amazon's upcoming series Outer Range, which will star Josh Brolin and is produced by recent Oscar-winner, Brad Pitt. Damn.
The series places Brolin in the role of Wyoming rancher Royal Abbott, who is struggling to keep his Travis Hopsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530865388076978095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830313173919008722.post-72544636510455897382020-02-27T12:16:00.000-05:002020-02-27T12:17:29.635-05:00Dare To Say His Name! Stylish And Creepy Trailer For Jordan Peele's 'Candyman' Is Here!
This summer, director Nia DaCosta is taking us on a creepy horror adventure, as audiences will get to watch Tony Todd reprise his villanous role in Candyman, which is written by DaCosta, Win Rosenfeld, and Jordan Peele.
For a while, not too much was known regarding this horror sequel, except for the cast. Last year, it was announced that Aquaman star Yahya Abdul-Mateen II would have a leadingCaillou Pettishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10254470851714902381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830313173919008722.post-74585236635268024032020-02-27T11:05:00.000-05:002020-02-28T10:45:58.735-05:00Review: ‘I Am Not Okay With This:’ Teen Angst And Superpowers Are A Lethal Combination
Being a teenager sucks.
It’s the part in your life where you are literally going through a transformation in some form. Whether it’s your voice getting deep, hair growing everywhere, or you starting to find your own sense of individuality/rebellion, your emotional growth (or lack thereof) it’s just a tough time for just about every teenager on the planet. Now throw in telekinetic Khalil Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16429743095466543657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830313173919008722.post-23837851353978795752020-02-27T10:57:00.000-05:002020-02-27T10:57:23.499-05:00'The Matrix 4' Casts 'Spartacus' Badass Ellen Hollman
The Matrix 4 is filming right now in San Francisco, literally setting California on fire with all of the gravity-defying action and chases we've come to expect. In the midst of all that, there is still room to build out the cast, with Spartacus and Into the Badlands actress Ellen Hollman.
Hollman isn't a huge name, but those who remember her as Saxa on Spartacus: Vengeance and Spartacus: War Travis Hopsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530865388076978095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830313173919008722.post-22895879237493923512020-02-27T07:02:00.000-05:002020-02-27T07:02:50.405-05:00Review: 'Guns Akimbo' Misfires Despite Daniel Radcliffe And Samara Weaving Earning Top Scores
If you found the energetic video game energy of Hardcore Henry palatable, there's a chance Jason Lei Howden's similarly riffed Guns Akimbo will be up your alley. But unlike that previous FPS-level actioner, there's little to engage viewers beyond the sheer wildness of its premise and enjoyable stars Daniel Radcliffe and Samara Weaving as they slum it in a movie that wishes it were half as zanyTravis Hopsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530865388076978095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830313173919008722.post-30553814834692607952020-02-27T02:12:00.001-05:002020-02-27T02:12:37.472-05:00Olivia Wilde To Direct Biopic 'Perfect' On Olympic Hero Kerri Strug
Following on the heels of her Indie Spirit Award-winning Booksmart, it should come as no surprise Olivia Wilde is one of the hottest filmmakers around. And she's been quick to capitalize with a number of upcoming projects, including one on Olympic champion gymnast Kerri Strug.
Wilde will direct Perfect, a film about Olympian gymnast Kerri Strug, who became famous when she battled through Travis Hopsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530865388076978095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830313173919008722.post-43918497097054026822020-02-27T01:14:00.002-05:002020-02-27T01:14:54.026-05:00Jason Blum And Leigh Whannell Are Both Interested In An 'Upgrade' Sequel
Leigh Whannell is poised to become a much bigger name with the arrival of The Invisible Man this weekend. And with that, more attention has been brought to his previous work on the Saw films, Insidious Chapter 3, and his 2018 cyberpunk horror, Upgrade. That last film, in particular, became something of a cult favorite, it's certainly one of mine, and its fans have been asking about plans for aTravis Hopsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530865388076978095noreply@blogger.com