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 [...]
Ridley Scott called. He wants you to co-direct a movie he’s producing.
Either that or everyone wants a little piece of the Efron revenue. The High School Musical star Zac Efron’s latest film, 17 Again, shot up fast during the weekend. Wrapping its small oily arms around first place, the Warner Bros film had no problem luring young women/girls in to check out their movie. Following the [...]
Some thrillers are only as good as their twists, which can make or break films. Every M. Night film falls into this category, notably The Village which is utterly ruined by its gimmick. State of Play seems to be the opposite – it continues to work despite the predictability of its twist. It’s not a [...]
Director Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland) delivers a tight, smartly-told story with the help of an all star cast that includes Russell Crowe (Gladiator, Cinderella Man), Ben Affleck (The Sum of All Fears), and Helen Mirren (Calendar Girls, The Queen). State of Play, based on a British mini-series of the same name, has [...]
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