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 [...]
Breck Eisner’s The Crazies is a movie unashamed of what it is; a zombie-centric gallery of jump-scares and gore moments. There’s the quaint little town where things start to go horribly wrong, the erstwhile sheriff who wrings his hands with each new terrible discovery, and of course, an endless number of scenes where characters wander [...]
Hot off the heels of the poster released earlier this week for Breck Eisner’s remake of George A. Romero’s The Crazies comes a trailer hinting that the film may actually be quite good. Nothing is too innovative in the trailer, which showcases performances by Timothy Olyphant (Live Free or Die Hard) and Radha Mitchell (Silent [...]
George Romero’s got two categories, two modes of operating: the guy makes masterpieces and extremely flawed films with great ideas. The Crazies (one of the director’s lesser known works that was mashed together with Day of the Dead by Danny Boyle to create 28 Days Later) belongs in the latter category alongside Knightriders and Martin. [...]
There are certain things, rules if you will, that should adhere to all Bruce Willis action vehicles. The first being him mouthing off to any and every one who opposes his authority. The second is Willis being shot at eighty billion times, followed by him serving up the best kinds of ass-kicking (a.k.a. rule number [...]
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