Super Bowl Commercial Review: THOR trailer (and watch it too!)

By CARL CORTEZ 02/06/2011
Chris Hemsworth in THOR | ©2011 Paramount Pictures/Marvel

With Super Bowl Sunday here, ASSIGNMENT X has decided to review the movie trailer commercials in between the game to see how well the studios are using their mega-dollars they’re spending to draw people into theaters. THOR Release Date: May 6, 2011 Stars: Chris Hemingsworth, Natalie Portman What Is it? The big screen adaptation of the Marvel Comic Book. Kenneth Branagh directed this about the God Thor coming down to earth to learn humility and kick ass. Want To See Factor: This looks quite impressive mixing old Norse myths with modern day sensibilities. The visuals are unique and the action […]Read On »


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Movie Review: NO STRINGS ATTACHED

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/21/2011
NO STRINGS ATTACHED movie poster | &copy Paramount Pictures

Sometimes there is no accounting for what turns people on, let alone what people think will turn other people on. Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher are, together and separately, talented and attractive, and there’s nothing really offensive about their romantic comedy NO STRINGS ATTACHED. True, it defies logic and credibility in several major ways and its tone manages to be bland yet inconsistent, but it’s not mean-spirited, which gives it some points.


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CD Review: BLACK SWAN / FASTER soundtracks

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER 12/29/2010
© 2010 Sony Classical | Black Swan Soundtrack

Clint Mansell has always felt the need for speed, let alone the seeming urge to accompany more mental disintegrations than a national tour of ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST. Taking the next evolution from playing with Pop Will Eat Itself to make a stunning alt. scoring debut with 1998’s PI (a film that also marked the debut of his frequent auteur collaborator Darren Aronofsky), Mansell’s prolific, and usually innovative output has combined the shredding rhythms of industrial rock, the lush melodic reaches of a symphony orchestra and enough minimal chord progressions to rate a celebrity death match with Philip […]Read On »


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Movie Review: BLACK SWAN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/03/2010
BLACK SWAN movie poster | © 2010 Fox Searchlight

Dancing can be dangerous, and not just physically. The canon of ballet narratives is full of tales of people (mostly women) who dance themselves to death. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s seminal 1948 THE RED SHOES famously turned a Hans Christian Andersen fairytale into a fable set in the world of ballet. Now director Darren Aronofsky uses the classic SWAN LAKE as the backdrop and catalyst for the potential implosion of his heroine.


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