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 [...]
Steven Soderbergh, fresh off The Informant!, discussed with MTV Movies Blog the tone of his upcoming Liberace biopic, which will feature Michael Douglas as the glamor god himself and Matt Damon as his young lover, Scott Thorson. According to MTV’s in-depth research of the subject, “Thorson met Liberace when he was 17 years old and [...]
There is never a dull moment for Matt Damon as he lands the starring role in Clint Eastwood’s latest project Hereafter. No actual description of the storyline has been released yet from Warner Bros Pictures but they are saying the project is a thriller in the vein of ”The Sixth Sense.” (Variety) Eastwood will direct the [...]
The Fix Is In. That is the title of episode 168 of “This American Life” where the story of Mark Whitacre was first heard by screenwriter Scott Burns and eventually made into a movie. Such is Hollywood. After seeing the film yesterday, I looked up the Chicago Public Radio program and listened to it this [...]
With the exception of a very routine start to the 2nd act, The Informant! functions as a gradual transition, challenging the viewer to keep up without pandering or even seeming to hide anything.
Josh Zetumer, the unproven screenwriter behind Peter Berg’s Dune remake, had been hired to craft a “parallel script” alongside the work of George Nolfi’s script.
Hidden amongst a report from Universal and their future dealings, Variety is reporting that Damon will be back for a fourth installment of Bourne. From variety: “More recently, Shmuger and Linde landed Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon for a fourth “Bourne” movie, even though the director and star seemed ready to wrap it up after [...]