Set in the not-so-distant future of 2020, Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum, Date Night) directs Real Steel, where Charles Kenton (Hugh Jackman, Wolverine), a former boxer-turned-robot-boxer who is looking for a comeback, is suddenly given custody of his...
Man on a Ledge stars Sam Worthington as Nick Cassidy, a convicted criminal on the run who, upon escaping, decides that he will have to prove his innocence by threatening to jump off a hotel. While Lydia Mercer, the police...
One of the films nominated for this year’s Foreign Language Oscar race is the Polish film, In Darkness, directed by Agnieszka Holland and starring Robert Wieckiewicz, Benno Furmann, Agnieszka Grochowska, Maria Schrader and Herbert Knaup. Based on a true...
As much as I love me some chocolate fudge brownie ice cream, I will occasionally crave another flavor, let’s say vanilla. Granted that is almost immediately followed by me being disappointed and cursing myself for thinking that vanilla has...
Hearing “Halston’ I immediately think of high fashion, but before seeing this film I had no knowledge beyond that. After watching ‘Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston’, first time director Whitney Sudler-Smith seemed to have the same experience. Having self-proclaimed little...
There are many action films that I would count as a guilty pleasure, but with Steven Soderbergh’s latest film, Haywire, I’ll gladly shout my love from the rooftop. Mallory (Gina Carano, first time actress and Mixed Martial Arts Champion)...
Today, Well Go USA is releasing The Front Line in select theaters across the country to an eager Asian film loving audience who have waited patiently for director Jang Hun’s follow-up to Secret Reunion. Hun’s war drama was South...
This week I had the chance to attend a screening of Haywire presented by The Film Society of Lincoln Center in NYC which also came with the added bonus of a long Q & A session with director Steven...
There aren’t many Chinese directors out there who constantly have a presence in the US market as much as Dante Lam recently has. The man has made his mark here with his stylistic and sometimes even intelligent action films and...
Writer/Director Andrew Niccol, the man who brought us the highly acclaimed sci-fi feature Gattaca, has returned to the genre that brought him fame with In Time, a movie starring Justin Timberlake (The Social Network), Amanda Seyfried (Red Riding Hood),...
