Trouble with the Curve
Directed by Robert Lorenz
Written by Randy Brown
USA, 2012
For someone who puts on a brave face about the subject or would rather ignore it, Clint Eastwood is obsessed with aging. In movies like Million Dollar Baby and Gran Torino, Eastwood portrays, for all intents and purposes, a version of himself who’s facing down the Grim Reaper. He’s been Clint Eastwood as a grumpy boxing trainer and Clint Eastwood as a grumpy retired factory worker, a grizzled elder statesman who tries with all his mental might to act as if he’s a much more youthful man, but whose physical well-being begs to differ. With his leading role in Trouble with the Curve, Eastwood plays Clint Eastwood as a grumpy old baseball scout who doesn’t want to admit he’s getting too old for this racket. Like Eastwood, Trouble with the Curve is a reliable,...
Directed by Robert Lorenz
Written by Randy Brown
USA, 2012
For someone who puts on a brave face about the subject or would rather ignore it, Clint Eastwood is obsessed with aging. In movies like Million Dollar Baby and Gran Torino, Eastwood portrays, for all intents and purposes, a version of himself who’s facing down the Grim Reaper. He’s been Clint Eastwood as a grumpy boxing trainer and Clint Eastwood as a grumpy retired factory worker, a grizzled elder statesman who tries with all his mental might to act as if he’s a much more youthful man, but whose physical well-being begs to differ. With his leading role in Trouble with the Curve, Eastwood plays Clint Eastwood as a grumpy old baseball scout who doesn’t want to admit he’s getting too old for this racket. Like Eastwood, Trouble with the Curve is a reliable,...
- 9/21/2012
- by Josh Spiegel
- SoundOnSight
Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings
Stars: Sean Skene, Blane Cypurda, Dan Skene, Jenny Pudavick, Tenika Davis, Kaitlyn Wong, Terra Vnesa, Victor Zinck Jr. | Written and Directed by Declan O’Brien
It’s 1974 and deep in the West Virginia wilderness, a family of inbred hillbilly cannibals are being held in an isolated asylum for the violent and mentally ill. The asylum soon becomes deserted when the inbred family escape and take sadistic and gratuitous revenge on their captors…. Decades later, a group of college students take a wrong turn and seek refuge in the now-abandoned asylum after a blizzard derails their plans for a weekend winter break. But when the students encounter the medical ward’s most frightening former patients, now fiendishly famished residents, their only choice is to fight back…or die trying.
I loved 2003′s Wrong Turn, helped in part by the appearance of Buffy co-star Eliza Dushku in the lead role.
Stars: Sean Skene, Blane Cypurda, Dan Skene, Jenny Pudavick, Tenika Davis, Kaitlyn Wong, Terra Vnesa, Victor Zinck Jr. | Written and Directed by Declan O’Brien
It’s 1974 and deep in the West Virginia wilderness, a family of inbred hillbilly cannibals are being held in an isolated asylum for the violent and mentally ill. The asylum soon becomes deserted when the inbred family escape and take sadistic and gratuitous revenge on their captors…. Decades later, a group of college students take a wrong turn and seek refuge in the now-abandoned asylum after a blizzard derails their plans for a weekend winter break. But when the students encounter the medical ward’s most frightening former patients, now fiendishly famished residents, their only choice is to fight back…or die trying.
I loved 2003′s Wrong Turn, helped in part by the appearance of Buffy co-star Eliza Dushku in the lead role.
- 8/21/2012
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Fun fact about Clint Eastwood's last performance in "Gran Torino": Despite great reviews and $269 million in worldwide box office, the Hollywood legend was not nominated for Best Actor. Looking back, that's not too hard to believe -- Sean Penn, Mickey Rourke, Brad Pitt, Richard Jenkins and Frank Langella earned worthy nominations at the 81st annual Academy Awards -- but, still: With only four onscreen performances in the last decade, how many more chances will the Academy have to honor Eastwood for what could be a final time?
Thanks to "Trouble With the Curve," at least one more. Warner Bros. released the first trailer for the baseball drama, and it looks like an amalgam of "Gran Torino" and "Moneyball," without the racism of the former and the Moneyball techniques of the latter. In "Curve," Eastwood stars as Gus, an aging baseball scout with failing eyesight who goes out on...
Thanks to "Trouble With the Curve," at least one more. Warner Bros. released the first trailer for the baseball drama, and it looks like an amalgam of "Gran Torino" and "Moneyball," without the racism of the former and the Moneyball techniques of the latter. In "Curve," Eastwood stars as Gus, an aging baseball scout with failing eyesight who goes out on...
- 8/8/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
My two year old -- he's like a walking/talking halo of perfection. Seriously, he's curly blond hair and blue eyes attached to 36 inches of awesome sauce. He's brilliant, too. He could recite the alphabet before he was 18 months old; he can count to 16; and he already makes these logical connections that completely astound me. Right now, he's in a pretend phase -- he wakes up each morning as a different character. Three days ago, he was Harold of the Purple Crayon fame, and wouldn't answer to any other name. Two days ago, he was Wild Thing, and his mother was Max; this morning, when he woke up, he was the dish, and my wife was the spoon. I kid you not. He's also seriously into tunes. He loves Irish ballads and The Beatles, and you haven't lived until you've seen a two-year-old kid belt out "Hard Day's Night" --...
- 1/22/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
Restored Archive Review, Originally Posted on 8/17/07
Director Joe Lynch has said that he intended Wrong Turn 2: Dead End as a homage to the early-’80s splatter sequels, but he has one advantage today that the makers of those films didn’t back then: the unrated DVD release. That has given him license to enthusiastically throw around blood by the bucketful, easily outdoing the original film on the splatter score; Lynch and his cohorts (including makeup FX supervisor Bill Terezakis) even find a way to top the first Turn’s arrow-in-the-eye highlight gag. The material may be familiar and none too surprising, but Lynch punches it across with all the energy of a longtime hardcore horror fan getting the chance to let it all hang out in his debut feature. You can tell he loves this stuff.
The narrative framework for all the bloodshed is the latest in the long recent line of reality-shows-gone-bad stories,...
Director Joe Lynch has said that he intended Wrong Turn 2: Dead End as a homage to the early-’80s splatter sequels, but he has one advantage today that the makers of those films didn’t back then: the unrated DVD release. That has given him license to enthusiastically throw around blood by the bucketful, easily outdoing the original film on the splatter score; Lynch and his cohorts (including makeup FX supervisor Bill Terezakis) even find a way to top the first Turn’s arrow-in-the-eye highlight gag. The material may be familiar and none too surprising, but Lynch punches it across with all the energy of a longtime hardcore horror fan getting the chance to let it all hang out in his debut feature. You can tell he loves this stuff.
The narrative framework for all the bloodshed is the latest in the long recent line of reality-shows-gone-bad stories,...
- 7/19/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
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