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 [...]
Ok, I get it. I’m a guy in his twenties who puts down the remote whenever he catches Commando on TV. What do I know about a period piece or romance films? Yes, Bright Star wasn’t number 1 on my must-see list, but a film that was directed by Jane Campion, nominated at the Cannes [...]
Not many people take much interest in the lives of poets, but filmmaker Jane Campion certainly does. In her latest feat, the seasoned director puts her own period stamp on an early era love affair in “Bright Star”. Centering on the love affair between Fanny Brawne and popular Romantic poet John Keats, the story brings [...]
If one were to never hear of Sam Mendes’ prior to seeing Away We Go, they would assume it was his first film. In some respects it is as it’s tonally different than what he’s accomplished in the past with Road to Perdition, Jarhead and the overrated American Beauty. Where Mendes’ usually invigorates a dark [...]
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