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 [...]
All my worries concerning how Christoph Waltz would follow up his stunning performance as Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds were laid to rest when I was informed that the actor had been cast in The Green Hornet. Waltz is set to play the villain Chudnofsky in Michel Gondry’s superhero flick, opposite Seth Rogen as the [...]
For the second week in a row, Warner Bros Pictures horror flick The Final Destination beats up the competition to stay on top during this past Labor Day weekend. Going up against three other films, audiences proved that they still crave their dose of absolute terror. The fourth installment of the franchise took in 12.3 [...]
If Inglourious Basterds hadn’t come along, J.J. Abram’s Star Trek would still be my very favorite movie of the summer. It’s exactly the sort of movie a summer season deserves, and it functions perfectly as both a prequel and a sequel. At the same time, it also opens the floodgates for a thousand new interesting [...]
Basterds on the other hand — it’s a film about wounded people, angry people, lashing out at each other with all of their talents, as diverse as they may be. For Hugo, this equates to a bloodbath. Shoshanna is fire and smoke and theatrics. For Col. HansLanda, words are enough to pierce to the bone, and he knows it.
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 [...]
Normally when a film leaves me cold, I tend to shy away from thinking about said picture. If I must, I’ll ponder the film and realize that I’d just seen a film I wanted to like, but had ultimately witnessed something mediocre or worse. Walking out of Inglourious Basterds, I recalled the same feeling as [...]
“You know what? This just might be my masterpiece.” This phrase is uttered by Lt. Aldo Raine in Quentin Tarantino’s 7th film Inglourious Basterds, a remake/re-imagining of a 1978 film about a group of Jewish soldiers going into Nazi-occupied France to kill some Nazis. That little bit of what could be called a piece of [...]
SPOILERS AHEAD!!! Atomic Popcorn: So, can we talk about working with Tarantino and stepping into a project like this? Fassbender: Well, I suppose it’s sort of [pause] first thing’s that it was very surreal for me, and because the first thing I did when I was starting to get into the business was when I [...]