Brothers

BROTHERS Blu-ray Review

by Germain Lussier    Posted: March 29th, 2010 at 3:46 pm

If someone ever has the balls to do a remake of Taxi Driver, Tobey Maguire would make a great Travis Bickle. His performance as Sam in Jim Sherdian’s film Brothers proves that the man who was once Spider-Man has got a disturbing and venomous side.

Maguire’s dark performance is the best thing going this just okay remake of a 2004 Danish film of the same name. Both follow a small town family with one son just getting out of prison, the other going to war, and both of whom end up in love with the same woman. We’re happy to report, that even if Brothers isn’t a spectacular film, it’s not quite the movie its marketing makes it out to be and the Blu-ray will be a treat for fans of Sheridan and the original film.  Hit the jump read more about the film and disc itself.

Weekend Box Office – THE BLIND SIDE Scores Another $20.4 Million

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: December 6th, 2009 at 11:18 am

After two weeks of solid second-place finishes, Alcon Entertainment’s The Blind Side posted its first number one win this weekend, taking the lead with an estimated $20.4 million from its 3,326 locations. After two weeks of steroid-pumped box office dominance New Moon could not catch up – closing its third weekend with another $15.7 million domestically. All in all it was kind of a dull weekend, with new releases failing to drum up much interest. But that is all about to change with the official start of the holiday movie season next weekend. Let’s just call this week the calm before the storm.

	Title	Weekend	Total
1	The Blind Side	$20,440,000	$129.2
2	New Moon	$15,700,000	$255.6
3	Brothers	$9,700,000	$9.7
4	A Christmas Carol	$7,520,000	$115
5	Old Dogs	$6,900,000	$33.9
6	Armored	$6,600,000	$6.6
7	2012	$6,600,000	$148.7
8	Ninja Assassin	$5,030,00	$29.7
9	Planet 51	$4,300,000	$33.9
10	Everybody’s Fine	$4,000,000	$4

Friday Box Office – NEW MOON Blitzed by THE BLIND SIDE

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: December 5th, 2009 at 10:09 am

Early estimates for the first Friday in December are in and it looks like more good news for Sandra Bullock and The Blind Side. In its third Friday in theatres, the modestly-budgeted football drama flattened its competitors, including some little teen flick called New Moon. True, the competition isn’t all that stiff on the Friday following Thanksgiving, but the fact that Blind Side just keeps defying the odds is sort of heartwarming. Someone should make a movie about it. New Moon, meanwhile, isn’t exactly wallowing in second place. The super-successful sequel is cruising past the $250 million mark right about… now! As expected, new releases Brothers and Armored did not make big entrances on Friday, coming in third and fourth respectively. Full details on all of this week’s releases when you check back here tomorrow.

	Title	Friday	Total
1	The Blind Side	$6,800,000	$115.6
2	New Moon	$5,200,000	$245.1
3	Brothers	$3,570,000	$3.5
4	Armored	$2,400,000	$2.4
5	Ninja Assassin	$1,700,000	$26.4

BROTHERS Review

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: December 3rd, 2009 at 9:25 pm

I’m not sure why Brothers is so shallow.  The plot of a man leaving to fight in a war, presumed dead, his wife developing an emotional connection to his brother, and then the resulting conflict which occurs when the man comes home alive.  The story feels almost biblical but Brothers prefers obvious emotional markers rather than create real conflict between the characters.  In the end, what should be a thematically rich and tense film becomes the story of a man who sacrificed his humanity in order to return to the human relationships that he now finds meaningless.  Thankfully, that man is played by Tobey Maguire who manages to build a full character while everyone else is left to function as plot devices.

New Trailer for BROTHERS Starring Tobey Maguire, Natalie Portman, and Jake Gyllenhaal

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: November 5th, 2009 at 1:08 pm

To put it kindly, I wasn’t exactly wowed when the trailer for Jim Sheridan’s “Brothers” hit back in July.  Now the second trailer is online and my interest in this movie is diminished almost to the point of indifference.  This new trailer, the one closer to the film’s release date of December 4^th, is only a minute long and relies on Mr. Movie Voice to explain the plot.  It makes the movie looks like nothing but big emotional moments with no characters in between.  I’m hoping that the elements of Sheridan, Tobey Maguire, Natalie Portman, and Jake Gyllenhaal combine to make a better film than I’m seeing from the trailers.  Check out the trailer after the jump.  It will only take a minute.

Natalie Portman is a Dirty, Dirty Girl

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: August 27th, 2009 at 11:02 am

A magazine interview with Natalie Portman is not automatically interesting – unless the person who is asking the questions happens to be Jake Gyllenhaal.  In that case you get questions for the erudite Ms. Portman which elicit surprising confessions like, “I’ve mostly been listening to dirty rap lately. That’s sort of my scene.”  To examine Natalie Portman’s love of obscene rap lyrics in greater detail, hit the jump.

BROTHERS Trailer Starring Natalie Portman, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Tobey Maguire

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: July 4th, 2009 at 10:27 am

“Brothers”, the new film from Jim Sheridan (“In America”, “My Left Foot”), has such a wonderful premise for an honest story of emotional conflict: Natalie Portman plays a wife and mother whose husband (Tobey Maguire) goes missing while on a tour of duty in Afghanistan and presumed dead.  She finds solace in his brother played by Jake Gyllenhaal.  But then, it turns out that Maguire and the dying?  Eh, not so much.  He returns and you get a conflict so thick you could drizzle it over pancakes.

So how did they come out with a new trailer this bad?  The music choices are awful and the genres feel all over the place.  It starts out tragic, then it’s a romance, and then it’s a suspense-thriller.  And it’s fine in a completed film to have all those genres but in a trailer, you need to sell a cohesive idea and this trailer, with such great actors, looks like borderline parody.

Hit the jump to check it out and try not to cringe.  “Brothers” hits theatres on December 4th.

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