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 [...]
Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio team up again to bring the new thriller mystery to the screen, Shutter Island. Based off of the 2003 novel of the same name by in demand author Dennis Lehane who’s previous adapted works have been Mystic River and Gone, Baby, Gone. Drama is set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels [...]
It’s no mystery that many found 2008 to be a relatively lackluster year, with the majority of the films released receiving mediocre reviews at best. So, whenever a really good or truly great movie came along, it was a real delight. Such movies included titles like Iron Man and of course, The Dark Knight. But [...]
Let’s address the Titanic comparisons first. Yes, Leonardo and Kate are again the love interest, this time as Frank and April Wheeler. You’ll have to imagine all but a scene or two or their falling in love - before you’ve finished the popcorn, they are 1950′s suburbanites with two kids. And yes, there are other [...]