Movie Review: The Ides Of March
Two actors, two faces and a two sided story. I smell an Oscar nod for Gosling…I see audience rejection of the film.
Movie Review — Restless
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 [...]
Movie Review — Real Steel
“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 [...]
Taylor Kitsch has signed on to star in Battleship — yes, Battleship as in the board game. The film, directed by Peter Berg, is a loose adaptation of the popular board game in which a navy fleet must fight to defend Earth from an invading alien force. Written by Jon and Erich Hoeber, the movie [...]
In an apparent attempt to mine every existing intellectual property in the world for film ideas, Hollywood has turned its sights on the much-beloved board game market. Universal, in particular, has secured the rights to two of America’s most classic games, Monopoly and Battleship. Battleship will reportedly be first. Universal has set a release date [...]
Peter Berg, the protege of Public Enemies director Michael Mann, will be ready to figure out which letter and number his opponent’s naval ship is. With the six year deal being used to its full potential from Hasbro/Universal Pictures, Battleship will be the latest board game to ship its way onto the big screen. Jon [...]
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