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 [...]
Here it is at last! The 2010 Academy Awards! Who’s bringing home the Oscars? James Cameron or Kathryn Bigelow, or will Tarantino stage an upset? Will The Dude Lebowski have a best actor win under his belt? The stars are crossing the Red Carpet right now and in a few hours Alec Baldwin and Steve [...]
Here are the 2010 Best Film Nominees of the British Academy of Film & Television Arts as seen through the eyes of graphic designer Tavis Coburn. Coburn’s website describes his style as “inspired by 1940s comic book art, the Russian avant-garde movement, and printed materials of the 1950s/60s.” I say thank you and may I [...]
If you’ve seen An Education then you already know how excellent it is. The film premiered at Sundance this year and was met with wonderful reviews. It’s a coming of age tale about a girl trying to figure out what to do with her life and of course her education. While that may sound like a movie you’ve [...]
I love when I get excited about a film solely for the actors involved. It doesn’t matter what the film is about, as long as actors I like are onscreen, I can enjoy it. An Education started out that way, but by the time the credits scrolled upwards, I loved the film as a whole. [...]