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 [...]
If the balletic and elegant fighting styles of Jackie Chan and Jet Li are the tap and swing of the martial arts world, then Tony Jaa and his Thai cohorts are practicing the Lambada. Jaa, who rose to international popularity in 2005 with Ong Bak, introduced the mainstream to the brutal and direct art of [...]
FIGHTING PACKS A PUNCH, TOO BAD YOUR FUN IS WHAT TAKES THE BLOW Do you like movies without interesting characters, and barely any story to speak of? If so Fighting starring Channing Tatum is the perfect movie for you. The fight scenes aren’t even very good albeit except one. This one will just leave you [...]
Despite my poor title, this past weekend was filled with quite a few movies for all audiences to check out. Apparently people either were craving Ali Larter, Beyonce or what is a very similar version of ‘Fatal Attraction’ in Sony and Screen Gems’ latest film, Obsessed. The story swirls around a successful asset manager (Idris Elba), [...]