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 [...]
For fans of The Lord of the Rings, the idea of Peter Jackson taking on The Hobbit was like a fairy tale come true. And much like a fairy tale, there have been many twists and turns that have had fans wondering if this project would ever get off the ground. Worry no longer; production [...]
Rise of the Planet of the Apes will be an origin story set in modern time that shows how the apes came to be, and how they began their rise to power. It’s directed by Rupert Wyatt and stars James Franco (127 Hours), Andy Serkis (Lord of the Rings), James Lithgow (Dexter, Third Rock From [...]
Sometimes hitting the multiplex just isn’t in the cards. That’s when Netflix steps in to provide a movie fix. But how to separate the wheat from the chaff? I’m happy to help; every week I’ll pick a flick from the Netflix Watch Instantly section and see if it’s worth your time. This week? Daybreakers! Living [...]
It has been a long and tiresome hunting season for the Predator; two films and two rotten-to-the core crossovers later, and the titular alien menace is still being called up by Hollywood to don the ol’ metal faceplate and perm the dreadlocks. The good news for our alien trophy-seekers is that Nimrod Antal’s Predators is [...]
Illumination’s Despicable Me is a wholly enjoyable foray into the same family friendly animation sandbox that Pixar usually plays in. It’s a testament to both Carell’s voice-acting and the gifted work of the art team that Despicable casts off the moniker of rip-off and begins to ascend to the status of equal. It never quite [...]
As a film fan, I’m always refreshed and inspired when I get to see great actors commiting themselves to a worthy project, and watching their partnership with directors who understand instinctively what they want to achieve. Granted, it doesn’t happen as often as I’d like, but I’ve got good news to report this time. The [...]
M Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender is a failure that sometimes offers glimpses of what it could have been. For fans of the popular cartoon series upon which this is based, it is sure to be a frustrating experience. There are the buried hints of potential in the picture’s presentation of an Eastern-influenced fantasy landscape, [...]
‘Twilight: Eclipse’, the latest installment of the vampire series is the best one yet. What does that mean for non fans? Not much, actually.
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