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 [...]
Ruben Fleischer’s Zombieland hacked away at the competition, making an estimated $25 million during its opening weekend. The new horror comedy hit expectations, proving that the sub genre is still very much alive. Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin, this film once hyped up at this year’s Comic-Con paid off big [...]
For the second weekend in a row the Sony Pictures Animation hit Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs reigns at the top of the box office. Making up about 24.6 million during this September weekend, the children’s book turned feature edged its way past the competition. Facing three first week opening films, the audiences agreed [...]
There are certain things, rules if you will, that should adhere to all Bruce Willis action vehicles. The first being him mouthing off to any and every one who opposes his authority. The second is Willis being shot at eighty billion times, followed by him serving up the best kinds of ass-kicking (a.k.a. rule number [...]
Definition of the word “Surrogate:” Noun – a person appointed to act for another; a substitute. In the near future human kind has replaced themselves with robotic entities known as Surrogates. The Surrogates were created 14-years earlier by a Dr. Canter (James Cromwell) as a way to help paraplegics gain the ability to move and [...]
The latest comic book adaptation, and the latest film starring Bruce Willis emerges this fall in Surrogates. In the year 2054, people are using surrogates (humanoid remote control vehicles) to interact with each other, but someone is determined to return people to their old lives instead of living through proxies. Below is the latest music video from the band Breaking Benjamin, [...]
Set as a dystopian fantasy, the guys behind Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (sigh) are back together to explore a future in which humans live in isolation and can only communicate to each other through robots that serve as social surrogates. Happily, these “middle-men” are better-looking versions of their human counterparts. (un-sigh) Willis stars [...]