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 [...]
Morgan Spurlock goes meta on product-placement’s back end in POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold. In making a documentary about how product placement gets done, he decides to pimp out his movie to the highest bidders. I’m betting there are hundreds of documentary filmmakers smacking their foreheads, wishing they’d thought of this idea [...]
I must say I knew almost nothing of this film going into the screening so I wasn’t expecting much from it. Boy was a pleasantly surprised as I sat in a brand spanking new theater with comfy leather seats and three other critics. I must say I love my job! Morgan Spurlock of Super Size [...]