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 [...]
Let me get this out of the way first. I hate Rob Zombie. Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate. His first two films, House Of 1000 Corpses and The Devil’s Rejects, were an exercise in unpleasantness and patience. I’d rather watch Uwe Boll’s entire library than sit through those films again. At least I’d have a [...]
“You know what? This just might be my masterpiece.” This phrase is uttered by Lt. Aldo Raine in Quentin Tarantino’s 7th film Inglourious Basterds, a remake/re-imagining of a 1978 film about a group of Jewish soldiers going into Nazi-occupied France to kill some Nazis. That little bit of what could be called a piece of [...]
YO JOE! G.I. Joe, which started as a doll line in 1964, soon exploded into a full-fledged franchise that exists to this day, spawning a comic book line, a cartoon series, a reimagined cartoon series, video games, and even a couple of animated movies. After Michael Bay’s successful 2007 adaptation of Transformers, Paramount saw fit [...]
Arlen Farber is not a particularly nice man, he is rude to practically everyone he meets, and even knows, and is very much comfortable with the idea of being a hermit. What he also is, is a writer of a hit book “God and Me” which is currently about to hit its 20 year anniversary. [...]
THE MOVIE: Now is a good time to own a blu ray player Final Fantasy fans. In 2001, Squaresoft made their first foray into the motion picture industry with Final Fantasy: The Spirits With. With their gorgeous cinematics within the games they made, surely a film made by them would be a phenomenal piece of [...]
*Sigh*, oh Sam…..what happened? After the misfire known as Spider-Man 3, audiences were wondering what your comeback movie was going to be. Many of us were excited to hear you say that you were returning to the genre that made you great in the first place, Horror. After the fantastic Evil Dead Trilogy, many of [...]