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 [...]
127 Hours is an incredible journey. What would you do if you came face-to-face with death?
It has been a long and tiresome hunting season for the Predator; two films and two rotten-to-the core crossovers later, and the titular alien menace is still being called up by Hollywood to don the ol’ metal faceplate and perm the dreadlocks. The good news for our alien trophy-seekers is that Nimrod Antal’s Predators is [...]
With ostrich racing brigands, swirling sand storms and slithering serpents, Mike Newell’s Prince of Persia brings the style but forgets the substance.
After six years and numerous mysteries, a loyal fanbase got a chance to answer the biggest question of all. Was it worth it?
Stealing from the rich to give to the poor. Now that’s a lesson that Brian Helgeland, the screenwriter for Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood could have, and should have, taken to heart. In this case, it’s his own anemic, battle-centric script that qualifies as poor, and it could desperately use some of that energy and charisma [...]
How you feel walking out Sylvain White’s ‘The Losers’ is going to depend a lot on what you went in expecting. A light-weight, energetic and cheerfully dumb action movie, it surges forward confidently down a well worn path of macho swagger, jarring explosions and snarky quipping. The plot is a model of simplicity and efficiency. [...]
Arriving at the height of the 3-D craze, Dreamworks’ How To Train Your Dragon is set to surprise a lot of people. Dragon is a dizzy and thrilling adventure and I’m well prepared to suggest that much of it will have the same impact upon young audiences that movies like Star Wars had on me [...]
It has been a struggle worthy of the funny books. The casting search for the next Captain America has been well documented the web over, including right here at AP. At one point our little geek hearts leapt up when Jensen Ackles was briefly mentioned, or Chris Pine looked poised to grab the mask and [...]