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 [...]
Who are your on-screen duo’s Carl and Russel from UP? How about Tyler and The Narrator, read ours.
This beautiful Greek revival of a comedy vs. tragedy burned so heavily it was intoxicating. When writing the film Leaves of Grass, director Tim Blake Nelson could only imagine one actor being such a dynamic presence while portraying a duo of caricatures actually written for the seasoned embodiment that is Edward Norton. The two-time Academy [...]
What’s this? A new trailer for Tim Blake Nelson’s Leaves of Grass with twice the usual amount of Norton? Looks that way. Nelson, known for his off-kilter character work in films like O’ Brother, Wher Art Thou?, Holes and Minority Report, is directing and starring in this story of identical twins who conspire to take [...]
The DVD release for The Incredible Hulk is quickly approaching (it’s October 21 to be exact) and the buzz is building as to what’s available on the special 3-disc set . Well we have some tidbits for you all here at Atomic Popcorn. While this rework of The Hulk was much better than the Ang [...]
The summer of 2008 will be known as the starting point for something great. This will be the time we look back and see how Marvel Comics was able to take their properties and move them forward into one big movie universe. Some will say Spider-Man started it, but it didn’t start to merge till [...]
What is it about the Incredible Hulk that always seems to cause issues? The first movie came out in 2003 directed by Ang Lee and was considered a box-office bust. Why? The style of the movie was considered too slow by most and the fact that your main character of the HULK isn’t seen till [...]