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 [...]
With his newest bit of fantasy, Alice in Wonderland, only days away from release, Tim Burton is already lining up some more collaborative work. This time he’s re-teaming with Timur Bekmambetov, director of Wanted and his co-producer for Shane Acker’s animated apocalypse pic 9. The focus of their efforts? Adapting the latest novel from author [...]
Hideo Nakata, the director behind the Japanese version of The Ring and the English version of The Ring 2, has signed on to direct the supernatural thriller Voice From the Stone. An adaptation of an Italian novel, Voice From the Stone follows a child psychologist helping a boy who promised his dying mother he would [...]
Adapted from the José Saramago novel and directed by Fernando Meirelles, Blindness, depicts the events of a sudden epidemic of blindness that sweeps across an unnamed city. Mark Ruffalo, Julianne Moore and Danny Glover star in this film adaptation. While one would think everything would go black, it actually goes white. The White Sickness as [...]
The boys over at Latino Review have scored an exclusive clip from the good folks at Fox Walden, and we want to share it with you! City of Ember is based on the adaptation of Jeanne Duprau’s now famous book. Here is a bit about the book/film adaptation. For generations, the people of the City [...]
Let me clear the air by saying that I was unwillingly dragged to see “Mamma Mia!”, the latest Hollywood interpretation of a stage musical. Clearly, I’m not the type of person the people behind the film adaptation of “Mamma Mia!” were trying to please. People like me, who are generally against musicals can and should [...]