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 [...]
Chris Messina, recently seen in Away We Go and Julie & Julia, has been signed to star in Devil, based on a story by M. Night Shyamalan (cue warning bells) and directed by Quarantine co-helmers John Erick Dowdle and Drew Dowdle. I’m endlessly surprised by how quickly a film can go into production after a [...]
Will Ferrell has officially signed on to star in Everything Must Go, the feature debut from commercial director Dan Rush, who will write and direct. Filming will begin in Spring of next year. By a long shot, this is the least expensive project that Ferrell has been a part of in quite some time — [...]
In 2006, I read about a film that was slightly different from anything I’d heard of before. Top directors such as the Coen Brothers, Gus Van Sant and Alfonso Cuaron were all making a series of shorts that would be threaded together into a feature. The short films all center around love in Paris. The [...]
Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are, a 90-minute adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s 43-year-old children’s book which barely spans a handful of pages, is a thing of absolute beauty. It is beautiful in cinematography, beautiful in performance and dialogue, and beautiful in silent moments between every wild thing that occurs onscreen. It’s a family film [...]
Two months before its January 2010 UK release date, Peter Jackson’s new film The Lovely Bones will be shown at the 2009 Royal Film Performance in November. The annual Royal Film Performance is the biggest fundraising event for Britain’s Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund, which aims to provide financial and practical assistance to anyone who [...]
When I see a cast lined up that includes both Clive Owen and Catherine Keener, I’m already excited without even knowing what the project is. Owen, to me, is one of the very few remaining actors who carry themselves with the sort of gruff authority that leading men were required to have in the 60s [...]
I’m somewhat convinced that Ridley Scott — either by his own nature or by the wishes of studios — will eventually attach his name in some capacity to every film on the horizon. A quick scan of IMDb reveals that the director of Blade Runner and Gladiator has twenty two films in the works, including [...]
It may be that 2010 is the year Mel Gibson returns to the limelight — 8 years after his last on-screen role and following tabloid mania that has shifted his image in drastically negative ways. He’s got two big projects on the way. The first is Jodie Foster’s The Beaver, and the second is Edge [...]
