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 [...]
Note: The following essay, which is obviously being published months after the release of Inglourious Basterds, was written for a literary criticism class that explores theory behind literary criticism and focuses on analyzing textual works from a variety of perspectives. This assignment involved using these tools of literature to explore a work outside of the [...]
New distributor Apparition has managed to maintain incredibly tight-lipped about Terrence Malick’s upcoming film Tree of Life. Very little is known even in regards to the plot of the film, which would seem unusual with just over two months remaining until the film’s original release date of December 25th. However, Bob Berney, head of Apparition, [...]
Remember a few months back (or was it a few? Time flies) when the Stephen Soderbergh and Brad Pitt film Moneyball got yanked from production by the studio mere days before it was set to begin shooting? Well now, it seems he finally has something to say about it. In an interview with the Orlando [...]
Normally when a film leaves me cold, I tend to shy away from thinking about said picture. If I must, I’ll ponder the film and realize that I’d just seen a film I wanted to like, but had ultimately witnessed something mediocre or worse. Walking out of Inglourious Basterds, I recalled the same feeling as [...]
“You know what? This just might be my masterpiece.” This phrase is uttered by Lt. Aldo Raine in Quentin Tarantino’s 7th film Inglourious Basterds, a remake/re-imagining of a 1978 film about a group of Jewish soldiers going into Nazi-occupied France to kill some Nazis. That little bit of what could be called a piece of [...]
“Nein nein nein nein nein nein!” “YES YES YES YES YES YES!” Tarantino’s films have always had me curious because of his style and the way he writes out the story, the characters, he’s always been different from other filmmakers and keeps to his style and makes each new film interesting. So it’s not always [...]
SPOILERS AHEAD!!! Atomic Popcorn: So, can we talk about working with Tarantino and stepping into a project like this? Fassbender: Well, I suppose it’s sort of [pause] first thing’s that it was very surreal for me, and because the first thing I did when I was starting to get into the business was when I [...]
SPOILERS AHEAD!!! Atomic Popcorn: What is it like working with Tarantino? Diane Kruger: Well, it’s everything you would imagine for a Tarantino movie, he’s a little larger then life, he’s very exuberant, and mad and running around. It’s nearly a childlike quality, he sits next to a camera and gets so excited about the scene [...]