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 [...]
How do you feel about Valentine’s Day? Are you one of those romantics who buys into it wholeheartedly, anticipating the day so you can lavish your loved one with affection and attention? Maybe you just enjoy getting caught-up in the kitsch of candy hearts, roses and chocolates? Or are you one of the others, who thinks [...]
Joe Johnston’s new Wolfman gets all the surface details right and gives some good action scenes but it never musters the original’s soulful sense of tragedy.
Percy Jackson desperately wants to be Harry Potter. He’s got a duo of friends like Harry, a magical school and a patient tutor, a fabled quest for a magical object, and a movie with a title nine miles long. For the film, he’s even snagged Harry’s original director, Chris Columbus. The good news for Percy [...]
Adam Green’s Frozen is one of the finest pieces of survival horror I’ve ever seen. The set-up is simple, the logistics are plausible, the characters dynamic, and the threat is terrifyingly real. The result is a picture that authenticates those feelings of helplessness, mounting dread and blood-chilling desperation that come with similar real-life scenarios. Following [...]
Why is it so hard to deliver a competent and entertaining romantic comedy? In a time when we are getting a record number of grim, post apocalyptic thrillers and action-heavy spectacles, why is a lighter-than-air genre proving near impossible to pull off? I don’t know the answer, and it’s clear that When in Rome doesn’t [...]
PHILIP BARRETT: Let me get one thing out of the way; this is going to sound like I hate Edge of Darkness. I don’t, and truth be told it’s not a terrible film by any stretch. The true enemy of this movie is Warner Bros. marketing department which wants this movie to be Taken 2. [...]
I will not be spending a whole lot of time on the film itself in this review as we have already done that here at Atomic Popcorn. What I want to focus on is the extras on this disc. Or should I say discs. This is a 3-disc set, including the ever-popular Digital Copy of [...]
As a big fan of Peter Jackson it pains me to say this. The Lovely Bones simply doesn’t work. Based on a dreamy, meditative book by Alice Sebold, Bones is the very definition of an unfilmable property. On paper it is the haunting story of a 14-year-old girl who is raped and murdered by a [...]
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