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 [...]
A Nightmarish Reboot The new Nightmare on Elm Street movie is a more blatantly sadistic “Freddy,” and a great pulse pounding reboot of the film series. After umpteen sequels you might think the content and storyline of a new ‘Nightmare’ movie would be stale; more re-hashed ways of offing defenseless teens – more driveled one-liners [...]
Tron Legacy is definitely on my list of most anticipated upcoming movies. I love the original Tron, and can’t wait to see a revitalized 3D version of that world with Jeff Bridges returning to the fold. Here’s the short list of some movies that I’m less excited about: Battleship. Monopoly. Ouija. Yes, it’s true: the [...]
In an interesting turn of events following Wednesday’s news of a partnership between horror hounds Platinum Dunes and Paramount Pictures, it seems that the rights to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre series will trade hands from Michael Bay’s group to the house that Saw built, Twisted Pictures. The deal is currently being sealed, and the series [...]
While Platinum Dunes’ repeated projects of re-imagined horror classics is a horror in itself, one should be in awe of the money those experiments rake in. Though complete flash-in-the-pans in terms of prolonged box office success (Friday the 13th dropped from the top ten in just over two weeks), will its new retread of A [...]