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 [...]
To examine a film’s reflexive nature or to study the reflexivity of a given work is something that really only happens in film school or within the pages of scholarly film textbooks and journals. Simply put, when a film is reflexive it touches on the process of making a movie. Louis Psihoyos’ documentary, The Cove, [...]
The first time I saw a mumblecore film, I was at the Woodstock Film Festival’s venue in Rhinebeck, New York. The film I really wanted to see was Stuart Samuel’s documentary Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream (an excellent film if you get a chance). The bus to Rhinebeck from Poughkeepsie was on [...]
Thank you Participant Media. The production company, founded in 2004 by original Ebay employee Jeff Skoll, is working overtime to finance and distribute films that are not only informative, but that also carry a heavy social relevance. After only 2 years in business (2004-2006), Participant Media’s films (then Participant Productions) were nominated for a total [...]
Is there really no escape from the living dead? Zombies have found their way to school curriculum (Max Brooks’ masterful novel World War Z can be found in the required reading section of your book store) and they have always been a part of mainstream cinema from The Night of the Living Dead right up [...]
The summer movie season isn’t traditionally the best time to talk about how small a film’s budget is. Summer science fiction is supposed to be about guys named Kirk and Spock or robots named Megatron and Devastator. So far this summer we’ve beat up on Eric Bana with the crew of the USS Enterprise and [...]
“Mike Tyson” is a name that makes most people cringe. My father, an avid boxing fan, had seen most of Iron Mike’s bouts live. My first memory of the fighter that became famous for his blinding speed and out of the ring recklessness was from Tyson’s last major fight: A loss at the hands of [...]
The Brothers Bloom is the second effort from innovative writer/ director Rian Johnson. Johnson is responsible for 2005′s acclaimed high school noir, Brick. At the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, Rian Johnson was presented with a Grand Jury Prize for Originality of Vision for his unique film about a hard-boiled high school detective knee deep in [...]
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