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 [...]
Mickey Rourke has taken the reins from Channing Tatum in a film version of Philip Carlo’s book The Ice Man. The book centers around the mystique of Richard Kuklinski, a real-life contract killer for the Italian-American mafia who happened to slay 200 people until his death in 2006. The man was particularly cruel, and I [...]
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 [...]
Video game adaptations will never die, despite what we all might think after the abomination trilogy on the big screen that is Resident Evil. Still taking great advantage of this semi popular genre of sorts, Universal Pictures nabbed itself the rights to the hit 1979 Atari game, Asteroids. For those of you who do remember [...]
There was a time when an Eddie Murphy film would be released and it was guaranteed gold. His stint on “Saturday Night Live” is one for the ages, and who can deny the hilarity of Coming to America and Trading Places? Somewhere around Beverly Hills Cop III he took a turn for the worse only [...]
UPDATE (10:55 AM PST): According to the good people at CHUD.com via Latino Review as George “El Guapo” Rush posted the following: We spoke with Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura about this whole firing mess and here’s what he had to say: Lorenzo: Its very unfair to Steve, its completely untrue he was never asked to [...]