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 [...]
Electronic Arts’ bestselling videogame Spore, designed by legendary Sim City and The Sims creator Will Wright, will be adapted into an animated film by director Chris Wedge (the Ice Age films, Robots, the upcoming Leaf Men). The game deals with the evolution of an entire species, from the tiniest little microscopic organism all the way [...]
After a raging battle between cgi animation powerhouses Dreamworks and Disney’s Pixar, a victor has finally been announced. Dreamworks has latched onto the project of The Leaf Men with Ice Age director Chris Wedge helming the pic. The feature will be written by scribe James V. Hart and it is under Fox Animation and Blue [...]
PHILIP BARRETT: I’d never been introduced to the Ice Age films until this most recent outing. Oh sure, I’d heard of them and was mildly interesting in seeing the first one, but for whatever reason I never got to it. The first did receive pretty decent reviews while the second was pretty much reviled by [...]