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 [...]
An unwritten rule of film is that movies are either made or broken by their twists. If you really want to get down and dirty, M. Night Shyamalan’s career is a good example of this (two were fine, the rest were all atrocious). There are times when a film doesn’t need a twist in order [...]
Truth be told, I’ve never used MovieTickets.com as I’ve opted for Fandango instead. Nothing really against the former, I just felt guilty after seeing so many of those paper bag people before movies. In addition, this was before MovieTickets.com stole the show from them at least at AMC. What will get me to pick them [...]
The Last House on the Left is bad. Not bad in a “so bad it’s good” way. Not bad in a “wow that really sucks” way either, although it’s absolutely atrocious. This film is just a bad piece of filmmaking all around. The filmmakers didn’t even try to hide the fact they were making a [...]