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 [...]
Ahhh, the benefits of a Jesuit education. Saint Louis University graduate James Gunn, writer of Scooby Doo, Slither, Dawn of the Dead and the upcoming Super (which we talked about here) has been making the rounds preparing for production on his self-proclaimed dark comedic take on a superhero. The film stars Rainn Wilson of The [...]
Spoilers ahead for the teaser trailer of Toy Story 3. A wonderful attendee of the D23 Expo was able to quote Pixar guru John Lasseter on the state of Toy Story 3 in relation to the other entries in the franchise. Lasseter revealed that while there was always interest in making another sequel, the quality [...]
We’re still three months away from the release of Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes this Christmas, but you better believe they’re already cooking up the next entry in the series. Warner Bros. is in talks with Kieran and Michele Mulroney, a husband and wife screenwriting team, to begin work on a sequel. It’s strange that no [...]
Darren Aronofsky, the talented director behind Requiem For a Dream, The Fountain, and The Wrestler, may be looking toward the real life story of the Securitas Depot robbery in Tonbridge, a massive heist thought to be the brainchild of former UFC star “Lightning” Lee Murray. The details of the heist, which occurred in February of [...]
Matthew Lillard doesn’t have the chops to be a good dramatic actor. I learned this years ago with Thirteen Ghosts. However, you can’t blame the man for trying, because there aren’t any Scooby Doo sequels on the horizon. (There is a made for TV prequel coming, though, if that’s your thing. Lillard isn’t involved.) Director [...]
I think it’s safe to say that as far as aesthetics go, director Joe Carnahan isn’t straying too far away from the source material when it comes to his remake of The A-Team. On the right, you’ll find the first photograph of the new A-Team van, which looks pretty much identical to the original from [...]
What is it about the Coppola family that makes the substance of Francis Ford Coppola’s films so often driven by what happens behind a family’s closed doors? It’s never exactly a positive situation, either: his Godfather trilogy is about the implosion of a family, the fall of a son and an effort to sustain a [...]
In a cost-saving move that is undoubtedly the product of a messed up economy, Universal Pictures will stop spending money to develop advancing projects for the remainder of this year. Thus, unless a project is being fast-tracked, no progress will be made on films under Universal’s umbrella until January. Why is the studio freezing developments [...]