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 [...]
Main Feature Being a fan of the UFC and Mixed Martial Arts in general, I was really looking forward to this film. The beginning indicates that Redbelt has a focus on genuine martial arts and this would certainly separate it from the glamour and fantasy of the likes of The Karate Kid and Kickboxer. The [...]
Main Feature The Punisher is one of my favorite comic-book characters for the simple fact that he is an anti-hero who doesn’t have any super powers. Frank Castle, with his martial arts expertise, incredible physical endurance, and all-round toughness is pretty much Batman minus the fancy dress costume and handy gadgets. It always amazes me [...]
Main Feature Standard Operating Procedure, directed by Errol Morris, is a documentary film which covers the events surrounding the widely publicized mistreatment of prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Morris is no stranger to controversy as evident by two of his previous films, The Fog of War and The Thin Blue Line, with the [...]
Main Feature Two stoners find themselves on the run after one of them witnesses a drug-lord murdering a business rival. James Franco plays drug-dealer Saul Silver and Seth Rogen pretty much plays himself but for the sake of this review his character is named Dale Denton. I must point out that I believe there’s a [...]