Two actors, two faces and a two sided story. I smell an Oscar nod for Gosling…I see audience rejection of the film.
It’s October. A time when Ghoulies, Ghosties and Long-Legged Beasties roam the earth. But if you start seeing the ghost of a World War II Japanese kamikaze fighter pilot, you’re probably Enoch Brae, the central character of Restless. And that’s not a bad place to be. Enoch is an odd kid. If your name is Enoch [...]
“Rock ‘em Sock ‘em Robots” get their day on the big screen in Real Steel, a movie that transcends the one-joke premise and is instead a heartwarming, fist-pumping mechanized fairy tale of a father and son coming together amid some of the baddest technology you’ll ever wish was really available. Not to bad for a [...]
Grammy award winner Mary J. Blige is ready to slide her way onto the big screen, hopping on board with Tyler Perry’s latest play-turned-film creation, I Can Do Bad All By Myself. Blige will be playing basically herself in a sense, a singer and a nightclub manager. She joins the cast which includes Brian White [...]
Oh, Mr. Alex Proyas, you’re making it tough to defend you as a good director. The Crow was a great little flick, Dark City (especially the director’s cut) is a pure masterpiece, and I, Robot, at the end of the day, was fun. Now comes Knowing, a film that tricks you and no, I don’t [...]
Judd Apatow is by all accounts the new Kevin Smith. For a time in the nineties, Smith had a stranglehold on the comedy world with Clerks, Chasing Amy and (to a lesser degree) Mallrats. His films may not have been high art, but it seemed like most comedies around that time tried to emulate Smith’s [...]
Duplicity, if anything, is fun and for the most part knows it. In fact, the best comparison that can be made is to the show “Burn Notice”. Both are hip, sleek, sexy, and entertaining thanks to solid talent and some solid writing. Unlike USA’s television show though, Duplicity tries too hard to be complicated. What [...]
It seems that not even a day went by and we have some casting rumors/news about who will be Hal Jordan in Martin Campbell’s “Green Lantern” for WB. Rumors are flying all over the internet that one very young and new Captain James T Kirk will be wearing the power ring of OA and playing [...]
Just when you thought it would be nothing but a saga, Universal Studios and Tribeca Productions come back to haunt you some more with its third installment of the Ben Stiller star powered franchise, Little Fockers. Pete Segal (Get Smart) is the rumored front runner of directing the comedy. Both films were previously directed by [...]
Paul Rudd and Jason Segel are slowly becoming leading men on the big screen. Each has come out of the background as the second fiddle and found a niche in the “every guy” leading man. Last year we saw Jason Segel break out in the very funny Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Paul Rudd break out [...]
Short of it: Something Proyas has done has struck a chord and changed the action genre for the better. There are ups and downs, along with some extraordinary questions asked throughout, equaling a very solid film. I must admit that, going into this movie, I was hoping for something different from Alex Proyas, the famed [...]