aaron eckhart

A few years ago, I worked with a college professor who said that the key to understanding creativity is to take two familiar things, combine them, and try to create some third new thing out of the process. That seems to be the idea behind Icarnate, Blumhouse Productions’ latest horror film. Take one part The Conjuring, one part The Cell, and sprinkle in a handful of familiar veteran actors, and what do you get? Hopefully a smart piece of counter-programming just in time for the the holidays.

Even by the standards of a biopic about an incredibly famous man at the center of an incredibly famous real-life event there isn’t a ton of suspense in Sully. Everyone who was alive and conscious on January 15, 2009 remembers what happened that day, when Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger safely landed US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River after the plane was struck by birds during takeoff.(I certainly do; I’d just arrived at my condo for the Sundance Film Festival and watched the rescue efforts unfold on live television.)

Aaron Eckhart starring as a hardened - and misunderstood - Marine sargeant, leading his undermanned platoon against an alien invasion in 'Battle: Los Angeles', filmed right here in Shreveport....my favorite 'made in Shreveport' movie! Who would ever think that a stretch of Linwood Avenue could be transformed into downtown LA, palm trees and all, and that on that same stretch of road Marine Sargean