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 [...]
Stephen King’s The Shining is not only a classic film directed by one of the best of all time, Mr. Stanley Kubrick, but also an endless source of artistic inspiration and expression as evidenced by this poster designed by Nick Tassone. Chris Thornley designed this homage to Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets which had a fantastic official poster [...]
How do you like your sports-themed movies? Heavy on the sport or just a side of sport with a heaping helping of feel-good story? Me… I’m not tellin’ though I’m sure there’s some conclusion that can be made after you’ve seen my list. First I wanna share a few stories that inspired me to put [...]
When the credits started to roll at the end of Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island, I was left with an unexpected question. What was the point? Here is a film that would have won Oscars aplenty back in 1956, the year it takes place. But alas, it is now 2010 and there isn’t a single idea [...]
I have been stoked for the release of Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio’s most recent collaboration, Shutter Island, since back in October when I saw the trailer before Paranormal Activity. While I’m a huge Leo fan and am partial to pretty much anything with him in it, the fact that Shutter Island has Scorsese and [...]
When it was all said and done the New Orleans Saints were Super Bowl Champs and Hollywood had a bunch o’ movies that wanted to advertise during the big game. We already talked about Alice in Wonderland and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time; joining those two were M. Night Shyamalan’s Avatar The Last [...]
Atomic Popcorn again brings you the best in local Baltimore movie screenings. February 17th we have a screening for Leonardo DiCaprio’s latest film – Shutter Island. I have been following this movie for a long time and it is a MUST see! Synopsis: From Oscar®-winning director Martin Scorsese, “Shutter Island” is the story of two [...]
With less than a month left until the release of his film Shutter Island, director Martin Scorsese is already hot on the trail of a new project. Scorsese is currently in talks to direct a screen adaptation of the children’s book The Invention of Hugo Cabret, which follows Hugo, an orphan living in a train [...]
Paramount Pictures presents us the newest trailer from Martin Scorsese’s latest film Shutter Island. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, this thriller mystery revolves around U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels who’s investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island. This film, [...]