Mike Nichols (The Graduate, The Birdcage) superbly directs this cinematic adaptation of Joseph Heller's scathing black comedy novel Catch-22, a tale of a group of U.S. Army Air Forces pilots stationed in the Mediterranean during World War II. There are winners and losers, opportunists...
Three-time Oscar®-winning* filmmaker Oliver Stone brings to life this ferocious, sexy crime epic. In a glittering California beach town, two best friends' innovative marijuana business has come to the attention of the ruthless Mexican Baja Cartel. As a seemingly unwinnable war unfolds around them,...
ENTER THE HIGH-STAKES WORLD OF HONG KONG'S MOST NOTORIOUS PLAYERS WITH THIS SPECIAL COLLECTION!Celebrating the popular gambling and crime drama subgenres of Asian cinema, Hong Kong Gamblers & Gangsters presents six films that deal out intrigue and thrills in equal measure. Taking viewers from...
Romance, comedy, and extraordinary fantasy collide in the sumptuous A Chinese Ghost Story Trilogy. This acclaimed and influential series sparked a wave of ghostly films in Hong Kong, and bolstered the stardom of many of its cast and crew. Produced by Tsui Hark (Once...
The should-have-been blockbuster from Tom Cruise and Mission Impossible writer/director Christopher McQuarrie had everything going for it. And yet . . .
When the trailers and TV spots promoting Edge Of Tomorrow hit screens in 2013, it was no surprise the movie tanked at theaters: The film was marketed with a slow, plodding succession of dramatic moments set to music so anesthetic that the action scenes seem like flashy punctuation marks to the intense, romantically charged dreck on screen. Lots of Tom Cruise looking at Emily Blunt in poorly lit, dingy spaces . . . and some car chases. Strangely boring car chases. It projected a sort of “When Starship Troopers Met Children of Men” quality, which is probably not a movie you’d want to watch and, thankfully, is nothing at all like the movie you get to —and need to — watch.
In fact, Edge Of Tomorrow is a hyper-paced, clever, and hilariously shot action film, which plays with almost-nonlinear looping storytelling techniques. It’s as if Groundhog Day made out with Aliens while knife-fighting with the weirder parts of Memento. Power armor. Tentacled aliens. Time travel. Combat humor. And Tom Cruise dying with a frequency and flair that would put Wile E. Coyote to shame. You’d think a movie with all that couldn’t go wrong . . . AND IT DIDN’T. In fact, it’s exactly the kind of smart, creative, mind-bending adventure everyone thinks is missing from Hollywood blockbusters. But you’d never know any of that from watching the trailer.
And we’re not alone on this one — following its miserable theatrical run, the studio went in to triage mode to salvage a movie that somehow failed in spite of its A-list cast and critical acclaim (90% on Rotten Tomatoes). They not only cut a completely new trailer, they created new artwork with the movie’s tagline, LIVE. DIE. REPEAT., recast as the movie’s title. It worked — Live Die Repeat: Edge Of Tomorrow debuted at #1 on the Home Video charts. And Tom Cruise had enough faith in the man who wrote the film to give him control of this week’s biggest movie, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation. Now Cruise is even talking about a sequel. And we’re very much hoping it happens.