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 [...]
There’s a real message inherit in Whip It that’s exclusive to any woman who’s had her mother try to mold her in her maternal image. While this might seem to make the film “girls only”, Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut does feature enough charm to appeal to the other gender as well. But alas, this is [...]
Many will label Adam a romantic comedy, but that moniker is incorrectly applied. While laughs are present, writer and director Max Mayer plays it (correctly) as a drama rather than a comedy. Truthfully, there’s nothing funny about a man struggling through life with a mental handicap, and unfortunately Mayer might be criticized for doing such [...]
Most independent films try to be more than the sum of their parts. Often times they’re too quirky for their own good, trying to convince the audience why it’s so great rather than show them. One could easily mistake (500) Days of Summer as a film that meets that criteria. The evidence is there as [...]
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