Guest Writer: Matthew Mupfanochiya

Summary:

This is a movie that uses the world surrounding the rising sport UFC as the source of action and the backdrop to tell the story of three men: Estranged brothers Tom and Brendan Conlon (Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton) and their father, Paddy (Nick Nolte). Tom, a marine, has come home to train for a spot in Sparta, a winner-takes-all MMA tournament. Tom is willing to forget, but not forgive his father’s dark past in exchange for his help in training. Paddy, a recovering alcoholic, leaps at the opportunity to re-connect with his son, despite his son’s terms of a trainer and fighter relationship, and no more.

Things are not much better for Paddy with his other son (Brendan) who lives across the state. Brendan is a retired UFC fighter and current high school teacher. Brendan and his young family are … Read More »

Guest Writer: Matthew Mupfanochiya

Summary:

This is a movie that uses the world surrounding the rising sport UFC as the source of action and the backdrop to tell the story of three men: Estranged brothers Tom and Brendan Conlon (Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton) and their father, Paddy (Nick Nolte). Tom, a marine, has come home to train for a spot in Sparta, a winner-takes-all MMA tournament. Tom is willing to forget, but not forgive his father’s dark past in exchange for his help in training. Paddy, a recovering alcoholic, leaps at the opportunity to re-connect with his son, despite his son’s terms of a trainer and fighter relationship, and no more.

Things are not much better for Paddy with his other son (Brendan) who lives across the state. Brendan is a retired UFC fighter and current high school teacher. Brendan and his young family are … Read More »

As you probably know I am really looking forward to Gangster Squad (if not, some of my other articles are here) just because I love a good gangster flick and this one looks like it’s shaping up to be something awesome!

What do we know so far?

The film is based on a series of 8 articles written for the LA Times by Paul Lieberman that focussed on the creation of a special Police unit called the Gangster Squad whose objective was to keep the city free of the East Coast Mafia in the 1940′s and 50′s.

Who’s in it?

It’s pretty much a veritable who’s who of Hollywood, check it;

Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn, Emma Stone, Josh Brolin, Nick Nolte, Giovanni Ribisi, Robert Patrick, Michael Pena, and Anthony Mackie.

Sean Penn is playing real-life gangster Mickey Cohen and Ryan Gosling is Sgt Jerry Wooters, the cop in … Read More »

As you probably know I am really looking forward to Gangster Squad (if not, some of my other articles are here) just because I love a good gangster flick and this one looks like it’s shaping up to be something awesome!

What do we know so far?

The film is based on a series of 8 articles written for the LA Times by Paul Lieberman that focussed on the creation of a special Police unit called the Gangster Squad whose objective was to keep the city free of the East Coast Mafia in the 1940′s and 50′s.

Who’s in it?

It’s pretty much a veritable who’s who of Hollywood, check it;

Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn, Emma Stone, Josh Brolin, Nick Nolte, Giovanni Ribisi, Robert Patrick, Michael Pena, and Anthony Mackie.

Sean Penn is playing real-life gangster Mickey Cohen and Ryan Gosling is Sgt Jerry Wooters, the cop in … Read More »

Written by: Stoic Taco

Before he decided to step into the octagon and tangle with cage fighters in Here Comes The Boom, Kevin James was Griffin Keyes in the Zookeeper.

Directed by Frank Coraci, who obviously enjoyed working with Kevin James on this film so much so that they immediately moved onto the currently-in-production MMA film Here Comes The Boom.

In Zookeeper, the animals at the Franklin Park Zoo love their kindhearted caretaker, Griffin Keyes. Finding himself more comfortable with a lion than a lady, Griffin decides the only way to get a girl in his life is to leave the zoo and find a more glamorous job.  The animals, in a panic, decide to break their time-honored code of silence and reveal their biggest secret: they can talk!  To keep Griffin from leaving, they decide to teach him the rules of courtship – animal style.  The … Read More »