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 [...]
It has been a long and tiresome hunting season for the Predator; two films and two rotten-to-the core crossovers later, and the titular alien menace is still being called up by Hollywood to don the ol’ metal faceplate and perm the dreadlocks. The good news for our alien trophy-seekers is that Nimrod Antal’s Predators is [...]
Vincezo Natali’s Splice is an ambitious and frustrating exploration of genetic tampering and psychological dread that favors its humans over its captivating creature
Earthling takes the kind of genre elements geeks drool over—otherworldly visitors, slimy parasites, genetic mutation—and folds them into a human drama that blends Cronenberg with Cassavetes.
Lat night’s episode ‘The Last Recruit’ began the epic task of connecting the dots of the sideways universe
Gareth Carrivick’s ‘FAQ About Time Travel’ has a terrific opening scene: An armada of spaceships is closing in on a big blue planet. Inside one of the ships, a British star-trooper is informing his crew of time raiders that they will go back to a point prior to their enemies’ evolution and wipe them out. [...]
Richard B. Riddick. Mercenary, criminal, hero and soon to be proud owner of his own trilogy, the character created by David Twohy in 2000′s Pitch Black, is headed back to the big screen. It was announced a few weeks ago that ‘Riddick’, the third film in the franchise, would bring back Vin Diesel in the [...]
The scene opens the way many, including Jack Shepherd, thought it would; aboard Oceanic 815 with all of the characters we have come to know, love and hate, sitting there together on the plane that stranded them on a mysterious island. And then, something different. There’s Desmond Hume, sitting next to Jack. Even more unexpected [...]
Members of the cast of Steve Pink’s upcoming sci-fi comedy, Hot Tub Time Machine decided to take the plunge this weekend– the Polar Bear plunge. Craig Robinson, Clark Duke, and Rob Corrdry stepped out of their time-bending, bubbling oasis of comfort to shuck down to their skivvies and thrust themselves into freezing water, all in [...]