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 [...]
Antoine Fuqua is an interesting director. Most of his movies feature world-weary macho warriors who plow their way through a corrupt and dangerous system, often embracing that corruption themselves in an effort to cope. These films—among them King Arthur, The Replacement Killers, and Training Day—are mostly slick action thrillers usually featuring stock characters and well-worn [...]
Our second Free Baltimore screening is for the upcoming Fox Searchlight’s biopic, AMELIA, starring Hilary Swank and Richard Gere. The screening will be on Wednesday, October 21st at 7:30pm at your local AMC theater. Here is a quick synopsis of the film and what you are in store for. An extraordinary life of adventure, celebrity [...]
I must admit that by the end of the second act of Nights In Rodanthe, the sappy romantic inside of me was almost won over by the film. Almost. But about a minute into the third act, the professional film critic in me took over, immediately recognizing the film’s overly sappy final 20 minutes as [...]