Title: Captain America: The First Avenger Directed By: Joe Johnston Starring: Chris Evans, Hayley Atwell, Sebastian Stan, Tommy Lee Jones, Hugo Weaving, Dominic Cooper, Stanley Tucci, Toby Jones, Neal McDonough So far, so good for The Avengers this summer. Thor’s a pretty cool guy and now it’s Captain America to show off what he’s got. Sure, he comes with the superhero standards – buff body, noble intentions and a sleek costume – but other than that, he’s nothing more than a poster boy for Marvel movies. Steve Rogers makes for a better propaganda symbol than superhero. Chris Evans is Steve Rogers, a Brooklyn native desperate to serve his country. Sadly,…

A discussion and review the week’s new movie release from your favorite entertainment and celebrity website. Hello everyone, this is episode 6 of the Movie Night Podcast. This week Rudie Obias is joined by Kevin Carr from FatGuysattheMovies.com and Jeremy Kirk from the Golden Briefcase on FirstShowing.net, both Kevin and Jeremy also write for FilmSchoolRejects.com, they discuss the latest comic book movie from Marvel Studios, “Captain America: The First Avenger”. Subscribe on iTunes or Download and Listen Here. “Captain America: The First Avenger” features Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving, Hayley Atwell, Stanley Tucci, Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L Jackson. It was written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely and was…

Title: Captain America: The First Avenger Directed by: Joe Johnston Starring: Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving, Tommy Lee Jones, Hayley Atwell, Dominic Cooper, Stanley Tucci Captain America: The First Avenger represents a change of pace in the recent adapted comic-book blockbuster movie practice. The 125 minutes are delivered in a methodical, unplugged manner. Translation: director Joe Johnston is surprisingly attuned of the time period this Marvel Comic hero was conjured up in. That said, there is expensive CGI being wielded when necessary, but a good portion of this plays out like an old Batman and/or Incredible Hulk television show; with the exception of grander set-designs and a quasi-more realistic scenario (for…

Title: The Company Men Writer-director: John Wells Starring: Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Cooper, Craig T. Nelson, Rosemarie DeWitt, Kevin Costner, Maria Bello, Eammon Walker ‘The Company Men’ sounds like a cut-rate, straight-to-video mobster movie starring Michael Madsen, but it’s actually (at least in this incarnation) a tale of white collar woe — an ensemble drama, with a heavy-hitter cast, from ‘ER’ creator John Wells that made its play for sociocultural relevance last December, and got lost in the holiday movie shuffle, grossing a meager $4.4 million after its platform release by the Weinstein Company sputtered and failed. So what gives? Is this downsized drama of the shrinking American…

Tommy Lee Jones is joining the cast of “Great Hope Spring”. He will joining an all-star cast which will feature Meryl Streep and Steve Carell. There is no release date for this movie but it looks like it will be sometime in 2012. Great Hope Spring was written by Vanessa Taylor (episodes of “Alias” and “Everwood”) and will be directed by David Frankel (“Marley & Me” and “The Devil Wears Prada). The screenplay was on the prestigious Black List in Hollywood. If you’re not familiar with the Black List, it’s OK, most people aren’t. It’s not a bad thing despite the name, it’s called a list of wonderful screenplays that…

The Hollywood Reporter has an exclusive update about Steven Spielberg’s film, “Lincoln”. The website is reporting that Spielberg has added Tommy Lee Jones, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Hal Holbrook, James Spader, John Hawkes, Tim Blake Nelson, Bruce McGill, and Joseph Cross are all in negotiations to sign onto the Abraham Lincoln biopic. Also in negotiations are Bryon Jennings, David Costabile, Dakin Matthews, Gloria Reuben, Boris McGiver, Jeremy Strong, and David Warshofsky. The film has already found its Lincoln and Marry Todd in Daniel Day Lewis and Sally Field. Jones will play Thaddeus Stevens, a Republican senator who was a big supporter of abolishing slavery and was integral to the legislation that funded…

One of the entertainment stories that has stayed fluid through the week is the debacle that is the “Men in Black III” production schedule, or lack thereof. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sony Pictures started production on the film with only one act of the script written. The reasoning behind this decision is because all of the prinicpal actors–Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones–and director Barry Sonnenfeld, were all set to go, and delaying production could have jeopardized the cast. Sony allowed for there to be a break in the schedule so the rest of the script could be completed. However, the break, which was to start in December and end…

HBO Films has announced its premiering its new original drama movie, ‘The Sunset Limited,’ featuring Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson, on Saturday, February 12 at 9 pm ET/PT. The movie is based on the play of the same name, which was penned by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Cromac McCarthy, and follows two strangers who are brought together by desperate circumstances. ‘The Sunset Limited,’ which is set in a New York tenement apartment, tells the story of the two strangers, whose lives are very different from each others. Jackson’s character is a deeply religious ex-con who stops the suicide attempt of an asocial college professor, played by Jones, who tried…

Title: The Company Men Directed By: John Wells Starring: Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Cooper, Maria Bello, Rosemarie DeWitt, Kevin Costner, Craig T. Nelson, Eamonn Walker Whether it’s happened to you or someone you know, job loss is a personal matter for the large majority and that makes it a testy topic to manage in a film. If it isn’t represented accurately it could be insulting, then again if it’s dealt with too precisely, it could be too much for some to handle, however, The Company Men approaches the issue quite tactfully. Not only does it deliver a respectable presentation of the hardship, but still manages to maintain a…

For those of you who’ve been MIA, MIB 3 is happening – now. As reported by MTV’s Splash Page, Sony already filmed a teaser which features Will Smith in his super sleek Agent J suit attempting to reassure the public that making a third Men in Black is a good idea. Unfortunately, the teaser is no longer viewable via YouTube, so you’ll have to settle for Smith’s message in text. I know what you’re thinking – ‘M.I.B., 3-D, we’re going to be blowing stuff up and all that.’ But that’s not really what we’re doing right now. We’re here for one purpose, and for one purpose only: just to let…