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 [...]
James Cameron’s recently opened Avatar may not have ousted I Am Legend as the biggest December weekend opener (Return of the King takes the cake for all-time highest grossing December release, but came out on a weekday), but it certainly did well in its first day. The film’s release at 3,452 theaters saw an intake [...]
I’ll admit right now that I’m not the biggest fan of fantasy-sci-fi. I don’t dislike the genre, it just isn’t one of my favorites. Thus, I have not caught the fever surrounding James Cameron’s latest film, the animated adventure Avatar. While I personally may have a lackluster enthusiasm for the movie, the amount Avatar made [...]
I think Manoel de Oliveira might just be my new hero. The Portuguese director turned 101 on Friday, but age is definitely not slowing him down. Instead, the director is trucking along with his newest film, The Strange Case of Angelica. Man, I hope that if I manage to live that long that I can [...]
Following the ever-growing trend of adapting novels for the screen, Sony is attempting to pick up the English-language rights to Swedish novel The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Dragon Tattoo focuses on an investigative journalist and a young computer hacker whose lives become intertwined and endangered as they seek to “expose institutions that pull the [...]
Good news for those of you who love seeing movies, but are more inclined to see films that go mainstream rather than indie flicks: You might actually know the films up for Golden Globe awards this year! For the first time since earlier this decade, the Golden Globe nominations are stacked far more in favor [...]
Just a few days ago, we let you know that Bourne director Paul Greengrass had walked away from Bourne 4. There were three possible options we left you with, regarding what would happen with the movie without Greengrass attached– one being that Matt Damon wouldn’t remain on the project without Greengrass. Well, it looks like [...]
If you had to pick the actress to play the woman who is pretty much considered be the epitome of a sex symbol, who would you choose? That’s the question Simon Curtis has had to answer with his upcoming film My Week With Marilyn, a biopic about the one and only Marilyn Monroe. Current screen [...]
After working for over six months on his remake of 1950′s Harvey, Steven Spielberg announced this week that he was backing out of the project. And this after 20th Century Fox had already scheduled soundstages to be ready to go for the film to begin production at the beginning of 2010. Despite the idea phase [...]