Movie Review: The Ides Of March
Two actors, two faces and a two sided story. I smell an Oscar nod for Gosling…I see audience rejection of the film.
Movie Review — Restless
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 [...]
Movie Review — Real Steel
“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 [...]
It’s not easy being a 15-year-old virgin. At least not for Oliver Tate. The love of his life is a pyro that doesn’t seem to know he exists, his parents’ dimmed bedroom lights let him know exactly when they get busy, and the new neighbor used to be Oliver’s mom’s boyfriend. Ah, to be young [...]
After hovering over several projects, David Fincher (Fight Club, Se7en, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) has signed on to direct an American adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.” The Swedish version of which is out in limited release in the States.
Ruben Genz’s Terribly Happy has been referred to on the festival circuit as a Danish version of a Coen Brothers film. On the surface level, that’s just about accurate. Telling the story of Robert Hansen, a Copenhagen cop who moves to the podunk town of South Jutland to decompress after a nervous breakdown, Happy has [...]
There is a lot going on under the surface of Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank and it is a testament to the director’s management of her subject that the film is focused and prickly, instead of muted and insubstantial. Telling a story that will probably be off-hand referenced as the white, British version of Precious, Fish [...]
Horror comedy enthusiasts, behold! First your patron saint Raimi returns with Drag Me to Hell, and now Norwegian Tommy Wirkola’s Dead Snow comes shambling onto DVD to revive the slap-stick scare routine of the incomparable Evil Dead 2. And for anyone with a zombie fetish or just a plain weird sense of humor (or both), the film’s ’big idea’ is that [...]
Following the ever-growing trend of adapting novels for the screen, Sony is attempting to pick up the English-language rights to Swedish novel The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Dragon Tattoo focuses on an investigative journalist and a young computer hacker whose lives become intertwined and endangered as they seek to “expose institutions that pull the [...]
Best known in the U.S. for her role in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, actress Michelle Yeoh will once again be combining her ballet training and martial arts moves as an assassin in a new kung fu romance thriller. Jianyu Jianghu, which loosely translates to “Rain of Swords in the Martial Arts World,”tells the story of [...]
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