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 [...]
Black Swan is a beautiful, poetic film that manages to surpass expectations through unforgettable images, an unbelievable performance, and exquisite direction, all of which that propel the film beyond its somewhat-ordinary premise.
Let Me In may star two extremely talented child actors, but it is definitely not a movie for kids. Director Matt Reeves doesn’t pull any punches in this violent remake of the acclaimed Swedish vampire film, Let the Right One In.
The official trailer for The Debt has debuted. Check it out after the jump: The Debt tells the story of three Mossad spies (Jessica Chastain, Sam Worthington, Marton Csokas) who attempt to capture and bring to trial the Surgeon of Birkenau, a Nazi war criminal, but something goes wrong. 30 years later, the doctor resurfaces, and [...]
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.
Think of it as The Bourne Locker. Greengrass and Damon bring us The Green Zone, a frenzied, fast-paced war thriller that races through the turbulent streets of Baghdad looking for elusive WMDs.
Breck Eisner’s The Crazies is a movie unashamed of what it is; a zombie-centric gallery of jump-scares and gore moments. There’s the quaint little town where things start to go horribly wrong, the erstwhile sheriff who wrings his hands with each new terrible discovery, and of course, an endless number of scenes where characters wander [...]
A film like Hong-Jin’s The Chaser is the exception to the rule for shock-based serial killer films. Speaking as someone who actively avoids most women-in-peril horror pics, I was relieved to find that this Korean offering manages to unhinge and electrify its audience without resorting to loathsome or deviant imagery. Recently William Monahan and Leonardo DiCaprio [...]
Last month, we got our first look at Oliver Stone’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and the return of Gordon Gecko. Now there’s a longer, international trailer that sheds light on the film’s plot. The first trailer very effectively showed us Douglas stepping back into the world, noting the changing times (hey! giant cell phone!), and [...]