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 [...]
Rachel loves Dex. Dex loves Rachel. But Dex is marrying Rachel’s best friend, Darcy. How things got so messed up, and how things right themselves, is Something Borrowed. What’s to love about this movie about love? Lots. The casting of the leads is perfect; Ginnifer Goodwin (Big Love, He’s Just Not That Into You) as [...]
As a film fan, I’m always refreshed and inspired when I get to see great actors commiting themselves to a worthy project, and watching their partnership with directors who understand instinctively what they want to achieve. Granted, it doesn’t happen as often as I’d like, but I’ve got good news to report this time. The [...]
After his success in Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds” Christoph Waltz is looking to make his feature directing debut with the romantic comedy “Auf und Davon” (Up and Away).
How do you feel about Valentine’s Day? Are you one of those romantics who buys into it wholeheartedly, anticipating the day so you can lavish your loved one with affection and attention? Maybe you just enjoy getting caught-up in the kitsch of candy hearts, roses and chocolates? Or are you one of the others, who thinks [...]
Why is it so hard to deliver a competent and entertaining romantic comedy? In a time when we are getting a record number of grim, post apocalyptic thrillers and action-heavy spectacles, why is a lighter-than-air genre proving near impossible to pull off? I don’t know the answer, and it’s clear that When in Rome doesn’t [...]
It’s possible that I’m just not enough of a girly-girl to really appreciate the upcoming romantic comedy When in Rome, or it could be that the trailers for the movie look just a bit too cheesy to pique my interest. Walt Disney studios and MPM Digital Marketing have recently released a clip from the film, [...]
While the upcoming romantic comedy Valentine’s Day may have gotten tabloid notice thanks to the supposed romance that Taylor Swift and Taylor Lautner developed while working on the film, the new trailer for the film looks like it might just be able to stand on its own without the accompanying gossip to help it. Valentine’s [...]
Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie. Robin Williams in Mrs. Doubtfire. John Travolta in Hairspray. These are among some of Hollywood’s big name men to let their feminine sides shine through on screen by playing the role of women (granted, Hoffman and Williams were both men playing men playing women…) The next star to don a dress [...]