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 [...]
Today at Comic-Con saw less news, but much more high-profile announcements. Most of the action took place in Hall H, which was bogged down with some serious line management problems, but we’ve got it all summed up right here for you.
Hugo Weaving, best known for his work in the Lord of the Rings and Matrix trilogies, not to mention V for Vendetta, will play the villainous Red Skull in Captain America: The First Avenger, according to a press release from Marvel Studios. Weaving had been in talks to play Red Skull, aka Johann Schmidt, since [...]
With Marvel bosses and director Joe Johnston still hard at work on apparently auditioning every young male actor in Hollywood for the titular role in The First Avenger: Captain America, it seems that some other casting news has just dropped. In a decision that comes as both surprising and wholly appropriate, Cap’s arch-nemesis, the Red [...]
From macho Spartan warriors to conflicted superheroes to… heroic barn owls? Really Zack? Based off a collection of popular children’s books called The Guardians of Ga’hoole, this actually looks like a mash-up of 300 and Watership Down, except with owls of course. The imagery of the owls soaring and the idea of giving the standard quest [...]
Joe Johnston’s new Wolfman gets all the surface details right and gives some good action scenes but it never musters the original’s soulful sense of tragedy.
Atomic Popcorn has an awesome opportunity for 40 of you to attend a screening for Universal’s highly anticipated horror-action film, THE WOLFMAN starring Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins and Emily Blunt. THE WOLFMAN will hit theaters February 12th and the promotional screening will be held Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at a local Baltimore theater. For [...]
The monster movies are back folks, and in a very big way. Going hand in hand with the recent release of James Cameron’s Avatar trailer is the trailer for The Wolfman. A remake on the 1941 horror film, this film directed by Joe Johnston stars Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving and [...]
Decades from now, people will ask you where you were on June 24th? What’s so special about June 24th? It’s the release of Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen, that’s what. While you’re busy marking off days on your calendar until this momentous day, why don’t you kick back and watch some clips from the [...]