Movie Review: The Ides Of March
Two actors, two faces and a two sided story. I smell an Oscar nod for Gosling…I see audience rejection of the film.
Movie Review — Restless
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 [...]
Movie Review — Real Steel
“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 [...]
While the industry is buzzing about Abrams’ Undercovers, Jerry Bruckheimer’s Chase, David E. Kelley’s Kindreds and Paul Reiser’s Next – I’ve decided to pour through the fall 2010 pilot orders and let you know what else is out there waiting in the wings.
Mathew Perry and Matt LeBlanc are set to star in TV shows in the upcoming season. Perry is returning to network TV to play a stadium manager, while LeBlanc is returning to play — well, himself. There has been a considerable amount of buzz surrounding Perry’s return to prime time, as he follows his Friend Courtney [...]
After scoring the best rating for ABC in 14 years, Castle has been renewed for a third season. The show, starring Nathan Fillion as the murder novel writer turned quasi-detective Richard Castle, preformed modestly when it was added to the lineup last spring. ABC even considered the program a bubble show before adding it to [...]
In a recent LA Times article, “Television Critic’s Notebook: Networks turn clock back to family hour” Mary Mcnamara discussed network television’s swing back towards family programming. While Mcnamara, Federal Legislation and I agree there should be no mandate requiring the networks to program family entertainment, it makes sense to move away from graphic content. There [...]
“I don’t think they ever had a problem with the CG… I had my heart set on Sam [Worthington, who ultimately got the role of Jake Sully]. Maybe they sensed my lack of 100% commitment from me. Maybe it was the subject matter…They’re both serious actors.”
Fox is pulling out all the stops for its new police action comedy Code 58 starring Bradley Whitford and Colin Hanks. A special preview of the show will air before ratings powerhouse American Idol, which is when the networks current hit Glee premiered last year.
“There are certain shows that will be sold on Apple for 99 cents,” Moonves said during the company’s earnings call on Friday.
“It was a completely fantastic experience, and it was an amazingly large portion of my life, but I don’t think I need to go there again. I think that it’s done.”
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