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 [...]
After his enormous success with last year’s “Up in the Air” screenwriter Sheldon Turner is moving into the director’s chair for “By Virtue Fall.”
Ryan Bingham lives like a man in transition–he has no wife, no home, or familial trappings. His work consists of visiting employees at their workplace and firing them on behalf of their employer, a big firm who doesn’t want to handle the un-pleasantries. In some sense, he’s a corporate ’sin eater’–carrying a mantle others would rather pass on, and becoming a kind [...]
Here are the 2010 Best Film Nominees of the British Academy of Film & Television Arts as seen through the eyes of graphic designer Tavis Coburn. Coburn’s website describes his style as “inspired by 1940s comic book art, the Russian avant-garde movement, and printed materials of the 1950s/60s.” I say thank you and may I [...]
It’s that time again. Puxatawney Phil has seen his shadow, Lost is back on the air, and the Oscar nominations have been announced. And, to be honest, there are very few surprises here. Granted, I’m a little late in breaking the news here, but if anything, this list proves there was no news to break. [...]
Pre-production has begun in Hawai’i for The Descendants, based on the book by Kaui Hart Hemmings. Academy Award®-winning writer/director Alexander Payne teams up with Clooney for the first time in what should have the audience saying “mahalo” by the time the end credits roll. The Descendants is Hawai’i native Hemmings’ first novel; the production marks a return [...]
The winners for the 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards are below. I am not going into any detail because you all don’t care! Some of the bigger winners were James Cameron, Sandra Bullock, Robert Downey Jr., Jeff Bridges, and Jason Reitman. Here are the results of the categories we all care about – winner is [...]
Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air, which has gotten stunningly good festival reviews, finally has a release date. The film will go limited on December 4th. Paramount Pictures intended for Up in the Air to be released in November, which would coincide with George Clooney’s other starring role in Grant Heslov’s The Men Who Stare [...]