http://www.ropeofsilicon.com The best and latest movie news, reviews, features and editorials - updated daily Tue, 22 May 2012 20:00:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/six-the-dark-knight-rises-character-posters/ http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/six-the-dark-knight-rises-character-posters/#comments Tue, 22 May 2012 20:00:32 +0000 Brad Brevet http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/?p=60823 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/six-the-dark-knight-rises-character-posters/feed/ 9 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/amour-movie-clips-haneke-cannes/ http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/amour-movie-clips-haneke-cannes/#comments Tue, 22 May 2012 19:00:08 +0000 Brad Brevet http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/?p=60807 Amour have arrived featuring portions of two of the best scenes in the film.]]> http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/amour-movie-clips-haneke-cannes/feed/ 0 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/room-237-movie-review-2012-cannes-film-festival/ http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/room-237-movie-review-2012-cannes-film-festival/#comments Tue, 22 May 2012 16:18:38 +0000 Brad Brevet http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=60820 Room 237 is for you. Come on in and begin the madness as no stone is left unturned when it comes to Stanley Kubrick's The Shining from the absurd to the strangely convincing.]]> http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/room-237-movie-review-2012-cannes-film-festival/feed/ 11 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/killing-them-softly-movie-review-2012-cannes-film-festival/ http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/killing-them-softly-movie-review-2012-cannes-film-festival/#comments Tue, 22 May 2012 14:17:03 +0000 Brad Brevet http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=60813 The Assassination of Jesse James it has taken four years for us to get a second film from Andrew Dominik. It was worth the wait. Killing Them Softly is not only a bullets and bloodshed gangster film told with a visual panache you won't find in many films, but it's also a straight-forward commentary on the state of America and it holds nothing back.]]> http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/killing-them-softly-movie-review-2012-cannes-film-festival/feed/ 10 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/dvd-blu-ray-this-means-war-woman-in-black-red-tails/ http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/dvd-blu-ray-this-means-war-woman-in-black-red-tails/#comments Tue, 22 May 2012 13:30:52 +0000 Brad Brevet http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/?p=60178 Certified Copy or The Secret World of Arrietty or you'll be looking over This Means War, The Woman in Black or Red Tails. The headline offers my choice, now it's your turn.]]> http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/dvd-blu-ray-this-means-war-woman-in-black-red-tails/feed/ 0 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/new-dark-knight-rises-poster-is-all-fire-and-brimstone/ http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/new-dark-knight-rises-poster-is-all-fire-and-brimstone/#comments Tue, 22 May 2012 04:24:35 +0000 Brad Brevet http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/?p=60800 The Dark Knight Rises in which Gotham is once again burning to the ground.]]> http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/new-dark-knight-rises-poster-is-all-fire-and-brimstone/feed/ 14 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/antiviral-clip-brandon-cronenberg/ http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/antiviral-clip-brandon-cronenberg/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 22:00:03 +0000 Brad Brevet http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/?p=60791 Antiviral has arrived giving you a first look at the film that has so far managed to intrigue most that saw it at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.]]> http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/antiviral-clip-brandon-cronenberg/feed/ 0 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/reaction-to-first-screening-of-django-unchained-the-master-and-silver-linings-playbook-footage/ http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/reaction-to-first-screening-of-django-unchained-the-master-and-silver-linings-playbook-footage/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 20:11:30 +0000 Brad Brevet http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/?p=60779 Django Unchained, The Master and The Silver Linings Playbook here in Cannes and here are my first reactions to all three.]]> http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/reaction-to-first-screening-of-django-unchained-the-master-and-silver-linings-playbook-footage/feed/ 10 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/killing-them-softly-movie-poster/ http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/killing-them-softly-movie-poster/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 18:41:14 +0000 Brad Brevet http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/?p=60780 Killing Them Softly, which will screen tomorrow morning here in Cannes.]]> http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/killing-them-softly-movie-poster/feed/ 1 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/anchorman-2-the-legend-continues-teaser-trailer/ http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/anchorman-2-the-legend-continues-teaser-trailer/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 16:17:11 +0000 Brad Brevet http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/?p=60772 The Dictator then you didn't see the early teaser trailer for Anchorman: The Legend Continues, but that's okay, because I have it for you right here...]]> http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/anchorman-2-the-legend-continues-teaser-trailer/feed/ 4 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/the-master-movie-teaser-trailer-paul-thomas-anderson/ http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/the-master-movie-teaser-trailer-paul-thomas-anderson/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 16:03:03 +0000 Brad Brevet http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/?p=60766 The Master is now online as the Weinstein Co. will preview footage from that film as well as Django Unchained and The Silver Linings Playbook at the Cannes Film Festival inside the next couple of hours.]]> http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/the-master-movie-teaser-trailer-paul-thomas-anderson/feed/ 12 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/cannes-2012-sleep-deprived-stay-with-kiarostamis-like-someone-in-love/ http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/cannes-2012-sleep-deprived-stay-with-kiarostamis-like-someone-in-love/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 15:45:59 +0000 Brad Brevet http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/?p=60762 Like Someone in Love, which I saw last night at the Cannes Film Festival, but sleep prevented me from absorbing any more than 50% of its content.]]> http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/cannes-2012-sleep-deprived-stay-with-kiarostamis-like-someone-in-love/feed/ 0 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/sapphires-movie-review-2012-cannes-film-festival/ http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/sapphires-movie-review-2012-cannes-film-festival/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 14:51:04 +0000 Brad Brevet http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=60755 The Sapphires tells the story of four Australian Aboriginals and proves to be a solid, crowd-pleaser with a performance from Chris O'Dowd you'll welcome with open arms.]]> http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/sapphires-movie-review-2012-cannes-film-festival/feed/ 1 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/skyfall-teaser-trailer-james-bond/ http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/skyfall-teaser-trailer-james-bond/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 07:55:29 +0000 Brad Brevet http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/?p=60733 Skyfall, has arrived giving you a small taste of what to expect this November.]]> http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/skyfall-teaser-trailer-james-bond/feed/ 24 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/tomorrow-at-cannes-django-unchained-the-master-room-237-and-skyfall/ http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/tomorrow-at-cannes-django-unchained-the-master-room-237-and-skyfall/#comments Sun, 20 May 2012 22:43:17 +0000 Brad Brevet http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/?p=60726 Room 237, another Bond film on the beach and footage from a trio of hotly anticipated Weinstein Co. features.]]> http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/tomorrow-at-cannes-django-unchained-the-master-room-237-and-skyfall/feed/ 8 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/amour-movie-review-2012-cannes-film-festival-2012/ http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/amour-movie-review-2012-cannes-film-festival-2012/#comments Sun, 20 May 2012 21:45:45 +0000 Brad Brevet http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=60721 Amour, but to dismiss it on the basis of which it is not meant to be judged would be to ignore the accomplishments within... Even if I will never watch it again.]]> http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/amour-movie-review-2012-cannes-film-festival-2012/feed/ 11 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/weekend-box-office-the-avengers-sunk-universals-battleship/ http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/weekend-box-office-the-avengers-sunk-universals-battleship/#comments Sun, 20 May 2012 21:29:12 +0000 Brad Brevet http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/?p=60716 The Avengers making it three weeks in a row while Battleship couldn't even must up $30 million in its opening weekend.]]> http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/weekend-box-office-the-avengers-sunk-universals-battleship/feed/ 21 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/what-i-watched-what-you-watched-installment-145/ http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/what-i-watched-what-you-watched-installment-145/#comments Sun, 20 May 2012 15:30:04 +0000 Brad Brevet http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/?p=60687 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/what-i-watched-what-you-watched-installment-145/feed/ 7 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/antiviral-movie-review-2012-cannes-film-festival-2012/ http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/antiviral-movie-review-2012-cannes-film-festival-2012/#comments Sat, 19 May 2012 21:40:33 +0000 Brad Brevet http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=60709 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/antiviral-movie-review-2012-cannes-film-festival-2012/feed/ 3 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/laurence-anyways-movie-review-2012-cannes-film-festival/ http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/laurence-anyways-movie-review-2012-cannes-film-festival/#comments Sat, 19 May 2012 19:24:12 +0000 Brad Brevet http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=60693 Laurence Anyways serves as my introduction to an up-and-coming master of cinema. I was floored by Xavier Dolan's film and immediately regret not yet having seen his first two feature films. At the age of 23 he is an easy target for haters, but I was overwhelmed by the sumptuous and beckoning nature of this film you couldn't have forced me to look away.]]> http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/laurence-anyways-movie-review-2012-cannes-film-festival/feed/ 6 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/friday-box-office-battleship-is-sinking-dictator-weak-and-avengers-still-strong/ http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/friday-box-office-battleship-is-sinking-dictator-weak-and-avengers-still-strong/#comments Sat, 19 May 2012 15:06:23 +0000 Brad Brevet http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/?p=60679 The Avengers continues its path to box-office glory and will win its third weekend in a row while newcomers -- Battleship, What to Expect When You're Expecting and The Dictator -- aren't posing much competition.]]> http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/friday-box-office-battleship-is-sinking-dictator-weak-and-avengers-still-strong/feed/ 12 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/lawless-movie-clip-guy-pearce-tom-hardy/ http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/lawless-movie-clip-guy-pearce-tom-hardy/#comments Sat, 19 May 2012 13:30:23 +0000 Brad Brevet http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/?p=60672 Lawless has arrived giving you a peek at Tom Hardy and Guy Pearce in a clip introducing Pearce's character, special deputy Charlie Rakes.]]> http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/lawless-movie-clip-guy-pearce-tom-hardy/feed/ 0 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/lawless-movie-review-2012-cannes-film-festival-2012/ http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/lawless-movie-review-2012-cannes-film-festival-2012/#comments Sat, 19 May 2012 10:31:12 +0000 Brad Brevet http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=60666 Lawless has only a couple of minor infractions preventing it from being and out-and-out excellent feature, but that doesn't stop this brutally violent take on the Prohibition-era moon-shining siblings, the Bondurant brothers, from being endlessly entertaining.]]> http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/lawless-movie-review-2012-cannes-film-festival-2012/feed/ 5 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/wachowskis-cloud-atlas-rodriguezs-sin-city-2-and-paranoia-get-release-dates/ http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/wachowskis-cloud-atlas-rodriguezs-sin-city-2-and-paranoia-get-release-dates/#comments Sat, 19 May 2012 05:00:26 +0000 Brad Brevet http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/?p=60662 Cloud Atlas, which recently screened at Cannes for buyers and was promptly picked up by Warner Bros. with a tentative December release date set.]]> http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/wachowskis-cloud-atlas-rodriguezs-sin-city-2-and-paranoia-get-release-dates/feed/ 5 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/alex-cross-movie-pictures-matthew-fox-ripped/ http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/alex-cross-movie-pictures-matthew-fox-ripped/#comments Sat, 19 May 2012 04:23:19 +0000 Brad Brevet http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/?p=60650 Alex Cross including three that feature Matthew Fox ("Lost") as you've never seen him before.]]> http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/alex-cross-movie-pictures-matthew-fox-ripped/feed/ 6 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/beasts-of-the-southern-wild-movie-review-2012-cannes-film-festival/ http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/beasts-of-the-southern-wild-movie-review-2012-cannes-film-festival/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 22:25:06 +0000 Brad Brevet http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=60643 Beasts of the Southern Wild thundered out of the Sundance Film Festival where it won the Grand Jury Prize and now shows up at the Cannes Film Festival with plenty of support behind it. For those of us that didn't get to see it with fresh eyes and no advanced warning it might not hit as hard, but that isn't to say the sound and the fury of the Beasts of the Southern Wild won't still be felt.]]> http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/beasts-of-the-southern-wild-movie-review-2012-cannes-film-festival/feed/ 4 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/cannes-2012-hitchcock-spring-breakers-total-recall-an-on-the-road-treat-and-more/ http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/cannes-2012-hitchcock-spring-breakers-total-recall-an-on-the-road-treat-and-more/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 21:30:21 +0000 Brad Brevet http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/?p=60475 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/cannes-2012-hitchcock-spring-breakers-total-recall-an-on-the-road-treat-and-more/feed/ 3 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/reality-movie-review-2012-cannes-film-festival-2012/ http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/reality-movie-review-2012-cannes-film-festival-2012/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 20:23:29 +0000 Brad Brevet http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=60625 Reality has nothing new to say and says it over and over again over the course of its 115 minute running time.]]> http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/reality-movie-review-2012-cannes-film-festival-2012/feed/ 0 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/first-pictures-of-liam-neeson-in-taken-2/ http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/first-pictures-of-liam-neeson-in-taken-2/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 20:00:15 +0000 Brad Brevet http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/?p=60620 Taken 2 have arrived along with some details on the film's synopsis.]]> http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/first-pictures-of-liam-neeson-in-taken-2/feed/ 8 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/six-character-posters-from-lawless/ http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/six-character-posters-from-lawless/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 19:00:46 +0000 Brad Brevet http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/?p=60609 Lawless, which screens tomorrow morning at the Cannes Film Festival.]]> http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/six-character-posters-from-lawless/feed/ 1