Loving Sam Rockwell

To me Sam Rockwell can do no wrong. His acting jobs are very diverse in the many independent gems and bigger studio movies he appears in and he's always challenging himself. There are two movies out now that offer him up to us Rockwell fans.

From the team that brought us Napoleon Dynamite, comes Gentlemen Broncos. I hate to draw a broad conclusion because I've not seen the film but Sam Rockwell could be the best thing about this movie and that's good enough for me. See Trailer - (more...)

Benjamin (Angarano), home-schooled by his eccentric mother (Coolidge), is a loner whose passion for writing leads him on an journey as his story first gets ripped off by the legendary fantasy novelist, Ronald Chevalier (Clement) and then is adapted into a disastrous movie by the small town's most prolific homespun filmmaker.

The film, Moon, has been around the festival circuit and with limited release in the US in June 2009. The trailer was so intriguing I had to see it and fortunately was able to download the movie. (more...)

It is the near future. Astronaut Sam Bell is living on the far side of the moon, completing a three-year contract with Lunar Industries to mine Earth's primary source of energy, Helium-3. It is a lonely job, made harder by a broken satellite that allows no live communications home. Taped messages are all Sam can send and receive. His only companion is a robot named "Gertie" (voiced by Kevin Spacey).

N O T E W O R T H Y - Moon is directed by David Bowies son Duncan Jones. Did you know that there is a petition to get Sam an Oscar nomination for Moon? Click here.

Loving Sam Rockwell