I suppose there is some chance that a person might just be opposed to anything that presents itself as a political thriller/drama, but barring a genre-bias, I don't suppose people need a lot of convincing beyond learning the cast of The Ides of March. George Clooney is certainly enough of a draw, and Ryan Gosling picks up pretty well where he leaves off. Of course, I was actually referring to … [Read more...]
You may have wondered what it could all possible mean when you heard that a movie was being made, which in some sense or another was "based" on the classic board game Battleship. I know what you were thinking, or rather, the manner in which you couldn't put thoughts together, because how could it make any sense? What part of the game could be a film, and what could transpire, other than the … [Read more...]
I don't know about you, but I'm not so sure about the upcoming movie Killers. On the other hand, I wasn't sure about The Ugly Truth either, and while some people bashed that one, I found it surprisingly watchable. What strikes me most about the film so far is that initial reports made it sound like rather a different movie than the one in the trailer. Now it's hard to be sure exactly where … [Read more...]
The very odd duo of Jeff Bridges and Justin Timberlake are coming to theaters August 28th in The Open Road, and I am not at all sure what to make of this road trip picture. The movie gives us Timberlake as a minor league baseball player who takes a road trip to see his estranged father (Bridges), who is a baseball legend. He makes the trip because his mother is sick, and when dear old dad … [Read more...]
