At first glance, this sports drama is another football vehicle in the vein of Facing the Giants or Remember the Titans, where the main characters have internal or team challenges to overcome in order to beat the opposing team and succeed in life. After all, the term “blind side” is a football term.
But this movie is really more about two things: believing that you can have a better life if you can apply yourself through hard work and believing in the goodness of humanity. Actually, in the end, the film is really about change, change for the better.
Sandra Bullock not only looks amazing in this film, but she also really does a wonderful job of portraying a very different type of woman than we have seen her play. Bullock’s typical comic or anal idiosyncrasies fall away and suddenly you aren’t watching Bullock on screen anymore. Instead, you are pulled into the life of strong, Southern socialite Leigh Anne Tuohy as she rallies around her new cause, a young and talented athlete from the projects called Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron). Read more »
In 2009 American geologist Adrian Helmsley (Chiwetel Ejiofor) discovers that the earth’s core is heating up and goes to warn U.S. President Thomas Wilson (Danny Glover) through White House Chief of Staff Carl Anheuser (Oliver Platt) about the terrifying ramifications: an apocalyse. But before a global plan can be implemented to save the earth from disaster, global quakes and tsunamis start destroying the world.
Don’t waste cash on this Fox Searchlight Pictures comedy/drama that marks Drew Barrymore’s debut as director. This sports movie starring Ellen Page as a young roller derby queen has the teen angst and issues of an after-school special.
In this audio clip, I explain to The Current’s radio personality Liz Lane a little bit about April’s (Taraji P. Henson) inability to love and how Sandino, the out-of-work carpenter (played by Adam Rodriguez of CSI: Miami), parallels Jesus in the movie I Can Do Bad All By Myself.
Liz Lane from The Current and I enjoy chatting on the topic of All About Steve. As part of that radio discussion, we talk about stalkers, crazy road trips, and what lessons we learn when we fall into a literal and figurative pit (like Mary Horowitz – aka Sandra Bullock - does in the film ).
Just wanted to say thanks to my friend, Liz Lane, for the enjoyable discussion of All About Steve on 
‘Surrogates’: When Virtual Technology Backfires
Posted in At Box Office, Film Genre, Film Rating, Film Release, Film Review, PG-13, Sci-Fi, Thriller with tags Bruce Willis, dreads, film, internet, james cromwell, movie commentary, movie review, movie synopsis, network, operators, prophet, radha mitchell, Robot, rosamund pike, science fiction, surrogates, technology, touchstone, unplugging, ving rhames, virtual on October 2, 2009 by Laura J. BagbyMovie Synopsis
What if you could work, play sports, and enjoy a night out without ever having to leave your home, experience personal harm, or suffer negative consequences?
Welcome to the world of the new PG-13 sci-fi film Surrogates, where human operators are plugging into the Internet and letting their better-looking robotic selves called surrogates live out their lives for them. Read more »
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