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MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Triple 9’ is dirty, mean and really, really good

Film: Triple 9 Directed by: John Hillcoat Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Woody Harrelson, Kate Winslet “You gotta out-monster the monster,” Woody Harrelson’s joint-smoking detective, Jeffrey Allen, says before chugging another drink. Boilerplate truths like this one are littered throughout director John Hillcoat’s Triple 9, a cinematic piece of slam poetry dealing in dirges of nasty crime […]

MOVIE REVIEW: ‘The Finest Hours’ Leaks But Stays Afloat

Film: The Finest Hours Directed by: Craig Gillespie Starring: Chris Pine, Holliday Grainger, Casey Affleck Heroic feats on the sea seem to be a bit of a trend nowadays at the theaters. With Ron Howard’s In The Heart of the Sea, we learned that even the most harrowing stories can get slighted by the search […]

First ‘Triple 9’ Trailer Teases A Gritty 2016 Crime Thriller

Earlier today the internet came alive when the first trailer for John Hillcoat’s dirty-cop thriller Triple 9 found its way online. The clip showcases the film’s enormous cast, as well as its gritty look at crime in the modern day, and I will warn you now, it’s sufficiently NSFW. The plot of Triple 9 seems […]

MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Interstellar’ Visits Deep Space With Familiar Twists

Film: Interstellar Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway Directed by: Christopher Nolan Christopher Nolan might’ve bitten off more than he could chew with Interstellar. Still, despite several genre clichés and a third act that sometimes leaves a lot to be desired in comparison to everything that occurs prior, the latest epic adventure from the man behind […]

New ‘Interstellar’ Trailer Is Everything You Want And More (But Not Too Much)

Christopher Nolan is one of those rare filmmakers who can bring any story to the big screen and fans will line up at their local cineplex to show support. It was not always this way, of course, but over the last decade Nolan has proven himself to be a one of a kind visionary who […]

New Trailer For Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar’ Continues To Befuddle And Provide Awe

The Dark Knight director, Christopher Nolan, returns to his trademark epic scope and awe-inspiring visual ideas with this fall’s Interstellar. Check out the new trailer here! Matthew McConaughey stars in this new film as Cooper, a father, engineer, and pilot in a near-future planet Earth that now suffers from immense drought. Planet Earth is becoming increasingly […]

Chiwetel Ejiofor, Casey Affleck, And Michael B. Jordan Join ‘Triple Nine’

As reported by Slashfilm, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Casey Affleck, and Michael B. Jordan have joined Cate Blanchett and Christoph Waltz in the long-gestating crime drama Triple Nine.  Triple Nine, which is scheduled for release in 2015, will be directed by John Hillcoat and scripted by Matt Cook, for whom Triple Nine will be by far the biggest credit yet. Hillcoat directed […]

MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Out Of The Furnace’

Film: Out Of The Furnace Directed By: Scott Cooper Starring: Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Woody Harrelson, Forest Whitaker, Zoe Saldana If Scott Cooper’s short but notable career has taught us anything, it’s this: half of directing is casting. Okay, that might not be a quantifiable statistic, but you get the idea. For his first feature, […]

MOVIE REVIEW: Ain’t Them Bodies Saints

Movie: Ain’t Them Bodies Saints Director: David Lowery The brooding, dreamlike landscapes of Ain’t Them Bodies Saints will inevitably invite comparisons with Terrence Malick’s Badlands, not least because both films focus on a pair of young and star-crossed lovers. However, David Lowery’s gorgeous indie is a decidedly more localized, intimate film than Malick’s masterwork, rich […]

MOVIE TRAILER: Paranorman (International Version)

Yahoo! has graced us stateside folk with our first look at the international trailer for the upcoming animated feature Paranorman. We have written about Paranorman a few times on UTG now, so let me go ahead and allow the people paid to publicize the film explain the plot to you: In “ParaNorman,” a small town […]