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 [...]
Sometimes hitting the multiplex just isn’t in the cards. That’s when cable, the web and streaming step in to provide an instant movie fix. But how to separate the wheat from the chaff? I’m happy to help; every week I’ll pick a flick and see if it’s worth your time. This week? “Black Death”. It’s [...]
Percy Jackson desperately wants to be Harry Potter. He’s got a duo of friends like Harry, a magical school and a patient tutor, a fabled quest for a magical object, and a movie with a title nine miles long. For the film, he’s even snagged Harry’s original director, Chris Columbus. The good news for Percy [...]
Is it possible that I’m actually intrigued by Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief after this trailer? Chris Columbus’ attempt to fill the upcoming Harry Potter film vacuum seemed rather derivative and vapid in it’s first teaser, but now that I’ve seen that leading actor Logan Lerman (3:10 to Yuma) has been surrounded [...]
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