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 [...]
Is Tom Cruise’s burly, foul-mouthed producer alter-ego, Les Grossman headed to the big screen on his own? Looks that way. Grossman, who made his screen debut in 2008’s raunch comedy Tropic Thunder also took the stage Sunday at the MTV Movie Awards, where he busted out in a rap dance that looked similar to the [...]
John Amiel’s Creation is a curious beast indeed; a film about a great thinker struggling with dilemmas of faith and belief that ultimately strands itself by failing to properly observe its subject. The life of Charles Darwin definitely has filmmaking potential, and personally I might have preferred to see a picture that followed his travels [...]
Johnny Depp has made a name for himself as an actor largely due to his ability to fully take on the character he’s playing, which adds a dimension of believability to his portrayal 0f the role. This talent should serve Depp beautifully in his next potential role, Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa. While Depp hasn’t officially [...]
Dame Helen Mirren, who won the 2006 Oscar for Best Actress for her role as Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen, will be stepping into the queen’s royal shoes once again. Although this time the queen will be a supporting role rather than the focus, Mirren will be playing Queen Elizabeth II in Mother: The [...]
In a world where television seems to spawn a new reality series every week, it was only a matter of time before the reality gamut finally made it’s way to the big screen. This spring, television viewers went crazy over the angelic voice of homely Susan Boyle on Britain’s Got Talent. Before Boyle, though, there [...]
Steven Spielberg, the man who created summer blockbusters, has agreed to co-produce a Martin Luther King Jr. biopic for DreamWorks. For the first time Martin Luther King Jr.’s estate has allowed producers to use his intellectual property including his landmark 1963 “I Have A Dream” speech in a feature film about the civil rights leader. [...]