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 [...]
I’m going to do something I usually don’t do for my reviews… I’m going to start with my rating: 5 stars! That’s right, this movie written by John Favreau, Vince Vaughn, and Dana Fox and directed by Peter Billingsley (long-time friend and business partner of Vince Vaughn but better known as Ralphie in A Christmas [...]
Written up by the super great Jon Farveau and directed by Peter Billingsley, aka Ralphie from A Christmas Story if you must know, comes the latest comedy to spawn out, Couple’s Retreat. Starring Vince Vaughn, Kristen Bell, Malin Akerman, Jason Bateman and many others, the story follows four midwestern couples who embark on a journey to [...]
ERIK BUCKMAN: Romantic comedies, like nearly every film in the horror genre, have a small playing field and a list of guidelines in which to play from. Here’s a list of some of those guidelines: 1. You must have an “airport scene.” You know, where the guy sprints to the airport to declare his love [...]
(NOTE – I reserve the right to change my final grade or anything in this review. I want to have time for this film to settle in and I’m taking this film very personally as I have a huge love for the graphic novel. Consider this review a work in progress.) The date is July [...]