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 [...]
Oren Peli’s horror flick Paranormal Activity has garnered such unexpected success that Paramount Pictures is expanding the film’s showings for already the second time since its theatrical release. The movie was originally released in a select few big cities in the U.S., quickly selling out screenings and eliciting positive reviews. The film met with such [...]
Paranormal Activity has become the most notable midnight screening viral success for horror films since The Blair Witch Project a decade ago, against all expectations and odds. While the film continues to spread into more and more cities, director Oren Peli has taken the opportunity to establish his next project and gather up some financing. [...]
This past weekend, debut director, writer, producer and editor Oren Peli’s low-budget horror film Paranormal Activity was released in a few big cities to pretty great reviews and many unexpected sold out midnight screenings, proving that the film is playing well to its target audience: college kids and high school kids up past their bedtime. [...]