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 [...]
Oh my stinking goodness, it’s not even conveyable how excited I am about the return of “Chuck” to TV tonight. After a Subway footlong campaign saved the show from being canceled last year, creator Josh Schwartz left us with a series-changing twist in the finale. Chuck, who had previously fumbled every physical endeavor undertaken, instantly [...]
2008 can be said to be a year plagued by tragedy, disappointment and shame. Just like at the movies, the small screen in general didn’t exactly shine this year. Very few movies could even be considered watchable and many shows with an established following, like the hit NBC show Heroes, saw nearly a 50% drop [...]
Sundance Film Festival is going on right now. For those of you that don’t know, one of the main points of the Festival is for independent film makers to get their films in there, show them to distributors and (hopefully) have distributors purchase the rights to – duh, distribute them. Word is no one is [...]
I love “Fight Club”. I’m a huge fan of Chuck Palahniuk’s work; so much so that I know how to spell his name without looking it up. (He’s the guy that wrote the book “Fight Club” by the way.) He’s got some other amazing books that should have been made into movies, “Choke” being one [...]