Movie Review: The Ides Of March
Two actors, two faces and a two sided story. I smell an Oscar nod for Gosling…I see audience rejection of the film.
Movie Review — Restless
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 [...]
Movie Review — Real Steel
“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 [...]
Movie Review: As most probably did, I happened upon Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are in the 1st grade when I found it wedged on a shelf in the school library. I was reading a lot higher than the book’s level by that point, but the sumptuous color illustrations of monsters running about with a boy in [...]
A unique Sundance Channel interview with costume designer Casey Storm — a man who has worked on films including Being John Malkovich, Zodiac and The Onion Movie — has revealed some interesting details regarding Where the Wild Things Are‘s design and the process of director Spike Jonze. Storm pretty much glows about Jonze, as would [...]
The first trailer for Where the Wild Things Are, Spike Jonze’s take on Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book, was a thing of transcendent beauty. Scored to Arcade Fire’s “Wake Up” and only sparsely peppered with dialogue, the trailer hinted at a film of kinetic, childish wonder.
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