Ron Howard

A couple of moderately-impressive action scenes can’t save Ron Howard’s ‘In the Heart of the Sea’ from being a complete wreck.

30. Apollo 13 (1995) Lost to: Braveheart In 1995, director Ron Howard brought a true life story of hope in the face of peril and started sweeping up awards. He won the Directors Guild Award. He won the Producers Guild Award. He won the Screen Actors Guild Ensemble Award. He lost the Golden Globe Drama to …

Deadline reported Wednesday that Ron Howard, director of Rush, A Beautiful Mind and The DaVinci Code, will helm a documentary on the early years of The Beatles. The film will focus on the years of 1960 to 1966, taking viewers through their formative days playing skiffle and at The Cavern Club in Liverpool all the …

Bad Words Written by Andrew Dodge Directed by Jason Bateman USA, 2014 One of the mainstays of the holiday season is Chuck Jones’ masterful animated short adaptation of Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas, which manages to both be a clever embrace of everything that Christmas embodies in its secular form and to be …

Fitting, perhaps, that Rush has a script so obsessed with speed that it moves right past telling a fully developed story. There’s a lot in Ron Howard’s latest film that feels different, from the young, international dual leading men, to the overtly stylish cinematography. But even if Howard is using Rush as a moment at which to change things up as a director, Peter Morgan’s script is a detriment. Morgan’s writing is the equivalent of an anxious little boy on Christmas morning, waiting impatiently while the rest of his family open their presents, to the point where he rips through the wrapping paper on his own gifts so quickly that he inadvertently breaks what’s inside.

Arrested Development creator, Mitchell Hurwitz, once wrote an article for The Guardian listing eleven reasons for the show’s cancellation. Number eleven read, “Make a show for British sensibilities and then show it in America.” But is Arrested Development solely a comedy for British sensibilities? Arrested Development is an awkward comedy. That is to say that …

Each and every month, we here at Sound On Sight dedicate the entire month to a specific theme. Sometimes we follow an event, an actor, a filmmaker and so on, as decided by our readers who vote on our monthly poll. February of 2013 was dedicated to actor Keanu Reeves. When the results came in, …

In the present trend of remakes, it should not come as a surprise when news came, via The Hollywood Reporter, that Stephen King’s Carrie will now be the latest in that trend. That’s right folks, there will be yet another iteration of the horror story of the shy telekinetic teenage girl who wreaks havoc at …

“Stretching” the Boundaries of Believability: Flexible children’s toy “Stretch Armstrong” is being adapted into a feature film set to be released by Universal Pictures on “…April 15, 2011….”  The writer attached to the project is Steve Odekerk, screenwriter of “Bruce Almighty” and sequel “Evan Almighty,” as well as the Robin Williams vehicle “Patch Adams.” This …

Angels and Demons Directed by Ron Howard There’s a nebulous threat looming on the horizon in director Ron Howard’s latest Dan Brown adaptation, and it’s not the antimatter that powers the film’s obnoxiously rigid ticking-clock device. Rather, it’s the needless exposition and mannered overplotting (much of it courtesy of frequently awful screenwriter Akiva Goldsman) that …