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 [...]
Yes, you read the title correctly. Saw VI, the most recent in a series of films based around gratuitous violence, has managed to receive the ever-so-tantalizing ‘X’ rating generally saved for films within the ‘adult’ genre. So how did Saw VI find itself being stuck with a rating that will make it slightly taboo and [...]
A unique Sundance Channel interview with costume designer Casey Storm – a man who has worked on films including Being John Malkovich, Zodiac and The Onion Movie – has revealed some interesting details regarding Where the Wild Things Are‘s design and the process of director Spike Jonze. Storm pretty much glows about Jonze, as would [...]
The headline of this one says it all: we’ve got our hands on a whole bunch of new images from James Cameron’s Avatar, the highly anticipated science fiction film that’s headed your way this December. I’m still not totally convinced that the film is as photorealistic as Cameron is saying it will be, these images [...]
Update 10/29/09: According to Variety, Charlize Theron has been officially confirmed for Mad Max: Fury Road, as has Tom Hardy (Bronson). What’s more, filming is imminent: George Miller will begin production next August in Australia. Here’s his quote on the possibility of Mel Gibson’s return: “it could be Mel, it could be anyone.” So there [...]
Thanks to IGN.com, we have our first look at the upcoming Season of the Witch starring Nicolas Cage, albeit a very brief look. 30 seconds isn’t quite enough to differentiate one film from the rest of the crowd, but this does give a good sense of the tone of the film … and Cage’s chosen [...]
I recently talked about the addition of Catherine Keener and Clive Owen to the cast of David Schwimmer’s Trust, two casting decisions that I couldn’t be happier about. Now Schwimmer has added another cast member to his domestic drama: Viola Davis. Though not a household name, Davis has been seen everywhere lately, from State of [...]
“Mythbusters” has been one of my favorite television shows since its debut in 2003. The romanticized viewpoint of the scientific world leads everyone to believe that scientists spend their days wearing pristine white lab coats, sitting in state-of-the-art laboratories, making triumphant discoveries, further advancing the world, then going home to debate Star Trek vs Star [...]
At 54 years old, the Hong Kong action star of John Woo’s The Killer and Hard-Boiled is still ready to kick some tail. Chow Yun-Fat is following his starring role in Mei Hu’s Confucius with a turn in Jiang Wen’s $18 million picture Let the Bullets Fly. Slated for a Fall 2010 release, Let the [...]
For the record: Shark Tale is one of the worst animated films I’ve ever seen, only made more painful by the fact that it quickly followed on the heels of Finding Nemo the way that Surf’s Up followed Happy Feet and March of the Penguins. It was laughless and devoid of fun, and now its [...]
Australia isn’t the only country trying to draw attention to their locale as a prime film location. The Czech government has recently announced they’ll refund filmmakers 20% of the expenses for filming in the Czech Republic. Once a hot spot for shooting foreign films, the Czech Republic has consistently declined in the number of foreign [...]
