Easily the most disappointing film of the year so far, ‘Apollo 18’ is an awful attempt at mixing the recent resurgence of the “found footage” horror movie with science fiction. What should have been an interesting spin on a genre that’s easy to get unique with instead is boring, insipid, and without any redeeming qualities. I was fairly excited to see this, but now I kind of wish that I hadn’t. It’s absolutely terrible and I’m almost more upset with it than I’d normally be because of the concept that it wasted. A horror movie about a classified trip to the moon that obviously ended badly should be fascinating, not full of garbage like this one is. It’s horribly over directed by Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego, horrifically underwritten by Cory Goodman and Brian Miller, and an absolute chore to sit through. This was among the longest 86 minutes of my life. I really wish that I hadn’t hated this movie and was exaggerating in some way, but the product is so poor I can’t help but be vehement in my distaste for it. What a wasted opportunity…
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Tags: Cameron Crowe, elle fanning, Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, trailer, We Bought a Zoo
50/50 really spoke to me on a personal level…
There is cancer in my house, the bad kind: brain cancer. It is incurable. This cancer just sits, ever growing, hiding in the recesses of the brain too far down for the surgeons to cut out, waiting for the chance to erupt once again. This one is one of the least-understood forms of cancer, so the doctors know little about it. My wife has struggled through radiation and is now struggling through aggressive chemotherapy to treat what we have been told is a very malignant form of cancer in her brain. We figure we could sit around and cry about our plight, but instead we choose to laugh, or, as Renton suggests in Trainspotting (1996), choose life. What alternative is there, really?
50/50 (***) hit home with me in a very powerful way. Admittedly, I was concerned about seeing the film. When you are living the experience portrayed in the film, one tends to judge it in comparison to their lives. That might be an unfair standard to place on the film, but that’s the way it is with such subject matter. Thankfully, director Jonathan Levine and screenwriter Will Reiser have made an excellent, powerful and deeply moving film that permeates with the one thing we feel each and every day when all seems lost…hope. Read more on John’s TIFF Diary: Day Six…
Tags: 50/50, Anna Kendrick, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Elizabeth Olsen, John H. Foote, John Hawkes, Jonathan Levine, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Oscar contenders, Sean Durkin, Seth Rogen, Toronto International Film Festival, Will Reiser
Sarah Michelle Gellar is back on the small screen in the dramatic thriller Ringer on The CW at 9pm on Tuesdays.
The show begins with a dangerous man after Gellar in a building. We know nothing about Gellar’s character only that this man wants to hurt her. The man chases after Gellar choking her only for her to scream “You have the wrong girl!”
We are shown a scene in Wyoming days before the attack and we meet Bridget (Gellar), a recovering addict dealing with a mistake resulting in her becoming an addict. She explains that she has received a letter from her sister inviting her to stay with her as long as she wants in New York. Soon after we realize that Bridget is in a lot of trouble. She is the sole witness to the murder of a stripper outside of a club and unless she testifiy’s, the murderer will be set free and go after her. Instead of testifying she escapes to New York after assaulting a policeman assigned to protect her and stealing his gun, to be with her twin sister, Siobhan.
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An early rise allowed me to see one film everyone is talking about, or, more specifically, one of the performances everyone is talking about. Suffice to say I came away underwhelmed, not because I did not think it was a considerable achievement, but because I think it has been surpassed and often. There seems little doubt that the performance will earn the actress in question an Oscar nomination, but I worry that it might turn into one of those years where they award that damned thing for work done fifteen or twenty years ago. It’s not that it is a bad performance, most certainly not, but neither is it a great one.
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Tags: a dangerous method, Abbie Cornish, Albert Nobbs, Andrea Riseborough, Carey Mulligan, Emile Hirsch, Glenn Close, Killer Joe, Madonna, Matthew McConaughey, Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Oscar hopefuls, Rodrigo Garcia, Shame, Steve McQueen, Thomas Haden Church, Toronto International Film Festival, W.E., William Friedkin
The Golden Globes, for past eight years or so, have been notorious for making uninspired choices, even downright mind-boggling exclusions in their lineups. The Best Picture winner of the Globes and Oscar haven’t matched up in quite sometime. They’ve chosen Brokeback Mountain over Crash, Atonement or No Country for Old Men, and more recently, The Social Network over The King’s Speech. You can’t say their opinions don’t matter but as time goes on, they’re becoming less relevant and more of a pit stop on the way to the finish line.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association are notoriously called “star f****” because of there usual nominees, especially in the acting categories. Think nominations such as Will Ferrell for The Producers, Renee Zellweger for Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, and Scarlett Johansson for A Love Song for Bobby Long. All performances many weren’t really considering for any type of recognition but the HFPA continuously invites to the ceremony. Though I will say, the HFPA award show as a whole is immensely entertaining. The actors are much more loose and give very funny and entertaining acceptance speeches. Even the inclusion of a host which for the past two years has been the eyebrow raising Ricky Gervais always gets a chuckle.
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The Awards Circuit – By Clayton Davis – Academy Award Predictions, Oscars, Emmys, Grammys, Golden Globes, SAG Predictions All Year Long- Haneke’s ‘Amour’ gets a trailer May 17, 2012The last time Michael Haneke brought a film to Cannes he walked away with the Palme d’Or for his startling film The White Ribbon. He returns to the Croisette this year with his new film Amour and the trailer for that film has just been released is is located after the jump. Synopsis: Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music […]Terence Johnson
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