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 the summer movie season of 2009 drawing to a close, it’s time to look back at the ten films that made us laugh, cry, howl and above all entertain us. Now bear in mind while films like The Hurt Locker and Moon saw release over this summer, they won’t be included here as this [...]
A smart ass cars salesman nor a cute five year old fish girl could stop District 9 from obtaining the top spot this weekend. The Peter Jackson boosted low budget science fiction story managed to wrangle in about 37 million. Directed by Neil Blomkamp and starring Shartlo Copley, Jason Cope and Robert Hobbs, it showed that [...]
YO JOE! G.I. Joe, which started as a doll line in 1964, soon exploded into a full-fledged franchise that exists to this day, spawning a comic book line, a cartoon series, a reimagined cartoon series, video games, and even a couple of animated movies. After Michael Bay’s successful 2007 adaptation of Transformers, Paramount saw fit [...]
Well, however you feel about kid sensations taking the leap, the other Hasbro toy line/TV show has jumped from plastic case to big screen with G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, and it did catch some attention as one of the last big movies of the summer season. Reeling in around 56 million so far, [...]
G.I. Joe, where have you been all summer? Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and X-Men Origins: Wolverine failed to deliver the kind of mindless, entertaining fun that summer so often brings while everything else outside of Star Trek has been more concerned with being artistic than enjoyable. It’s strange, scribing those sentences and the ones [...]
That’s right, everyone’s favorite eighties all-American hero is jumping out into the big screen in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. The Stephen Sommers (Van Helsing) directed action adventure piece stars Channing Tatum (Fighting), Sienna Miller (Stardust) among others. An elite military unit comprised of special operatives known as G.I. Joe, operating out of The [...]