By: Alexandria Eldridge - Alberta and Northern Bureau Chief
EDMONTON (CUP) – Todd Cherniawsky left Alberta to go to Los Angeles years ago for grad school and a career in Hollywood. These days, he’s enjoying silver screen success – having most recently been a supervising art director of the James Cameron’s blockbuster *Avatar*.
Born in Edmonton, he [...]

Movie Review:
Terminator Salvation

Now on DVD is the fourth instalment of the long running Terminator franchise: Terminator Salvation.

Skynet is once again hunting down human saviour John Connor (Christian Bale), only this time he doesn’t have Mr. Arnold “terminator-gone-governor” Schwarzenegger to protect him. In fact, Arnold isn’t even in this one at all.

The [...]

What can be said about zombies that we don’t already know? Sometimes they stagger around, sometimes they run, they almost always look ugly, and they definitely want to eat you. Zombieland does little to change this formula. Everything here has already been seen in other movies of the genre, and in some cases, done better. [...]

Film Review
“Quantum of Solace”

Daniel Craig is back for his second outing as the infamous “007″ in the latest James Bond film, “Quantum of Solace,” marking the twenty-second James Bond film since the franchise started with “Dr. No” back in 1962. However, this is the very first film in the series that is a direct [...]

The recent films ‘Iron Man’ and ‘The Dark Knight’, especially, have shown us that the boundaries of comic-adaptations can be pushed into something truly masterful. ‘Watchmen’, written by Alan Moore in 1986, forever changed the way people viewed the graphic-novel medium, and became listed as one of Time Magazine’s ‘100 Best Novels’. After nearly two [...]

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Director Ridley Scott isn’t a newcomer to films set in the Middle East. Having previously done ‘Black Hawk Down’ and ‘Kingdom of Heaven’, he’s heavily explored the tensions and relationships between the Eastern and Western world. His new movie, ‘Body of Lies’, returns to this familiar theme, but with a focus on the popular subject [...]