Who would have thought cuckolding could bring a family closer?
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 [...]
They’re blue. They’re three apples high. And admit it, you probably have a few of the tiny plastic paeans to their awesomeness tucked away in boxes somewhere in your parent’s house. Probably in your old room, which is now the “yoga studio”. Yep, you guessed it; la la la la-la la, la la la-la la, [...]
Cowboys & Aliens is this year’s Independence Day or Iron Man; it’s a slam-bang ride that puts summer movies back on the map. Well, at least for this year. Jon Favreau (who directed Iron Man, aptly enough) knows how to craft an adrenaline rush without making it overkill. There’s just enough information about characters to [...]
In Sarah’s Key, an American journalist marries the Frenchman of her dreams and years later they move into a place that his family had lived in years before. But her research on the Vélodrome d’Hive roundup of Jews during World War II uncovers a connection to her new home, a connection that leads her on [...]
“The Keeper” is a short documentary about a seemingly normal man who cherishes and collects his own debit card statements. He loves to look over his statements when they arrive and he keeps each one of them in a scrapbook. Not only that, he uses the line items on the debit statements as a way [...]
Sometimes hitting the multiplex just isn’t in the cards. That’s when cable, the web and streaming step in to provide an instant movie fix. But how to separate the wheat from the chaff? I’m happy to help; every week I’ll pick a flick and see if it’s worth your time. This week? “Tangled” Tangled takes [...]
Too busy with Real Life to check out the latest movie news…or any of the cool tidbits from Comic-Con? Never fear, I’ll catch you up on the hottest stuff you might have missed! * I love it when actors roll up their sleeves and get in it with the fans. Hugh Jackman brought along stacks [...]
Why do so many people love Comic-Con? It’s the peeks at genre movies that will be hitting theaters soon. So what hit at this year’s San Diego lovefest? In Time: coming this October, this story about how the world has “cured” people from aging…for a price stars Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried. The idea of [...]