Tag: Real Steel

6 Movies with Giant Freaking Robots, In Honor of ‘Pacific Rim’ Directed by Guillermo del Toro

Posted: July 12, 2013 at 10:53 am   /   Film, Local, Tom O'Keefe Movie Reviews, Top Original Content

This week sees the release of Pacific Rim.  If you’ve ever wondered what it looked like when Guillermo del Toro played in the bathtub, then this is the movie for you.  He took his Transformers and had them fight his Godzilla action figures, and I bet he was grounded for a week after his mother […]

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Another Take By Zac: Film Review: Real Steel

Posted: October 8, 2011 at 3:09 pm   /   Another Take From Zac, Local, Movie Reviews

Real Steel is a slick and polished sports flick that features some great effects, solid acting, and nothing you haven’t seen already. This is what you think it is; a tried and true underdog sports story.  Only this time with giant robots and if that is what you are looking for I am sure you […]

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Movie Review: ‘Real Steel’ Starring High Jackman, Evangeline Lilly

Posted: October 7, 2011 at 12:00 am   /   Featured, Local, Movie Reviews

Movies aimed towards a male audience tend to have one or two specific plotlines or point of appeal intended to cater to a specific emotion of the audience. Field of Dreams focused on a father-son relationship. Rocky showed the triumph of the human spirit and the ability of the underdog to overcome incredible odds. Transformers had giant […]

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First Image from Shawn Levy’s “Real Steel” Starring Hugh Jackman

Posted: June 14, 2010 at 11:22 pm   /   Local, Movie News

USA Today released a still of the new Shawn Levy directed feature, Real Steel, starring Hugh Jackman. In the film boxing is only done through the use of robots. Jackman’s character takes a robot, “Atom”, and train it to be a robot boxing champion with his son. This picture depicts him with a robot called […]

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Hugh Jackman heads up ‘Real Steel’

Posted: November 24, 2009 at 1:14 pm   /   Local, Movie News

Sure, I wasn’t a fan of his semi-blockbuster over the summer, X-Men Origins: Wolverine. I do like Hugh Jackman though. He’s a very charismatic actor, and I feel he is good at what he does. The story about him buying breakfast for X-Men fans waiting in line for his new film endeared him to me […]

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