Shawn Levy

The Internship Review

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Are you over the age of 45, blue collar, have no clue how a computer works, you’ve never had an internship in your life, you’ve never heard of Google as a corporation, think The Big Bang Theory is the height of comedy, and you find the leads hilarious? You’ll probably adore The Internship. If you disagree with all or most of those criteria, it will be positively poisonous to anything and everything you hold dear in life. That’s just the way it is.
Real Steel

Real Steel Review

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It might seem hard to believe that the guy who made the remakes of Cheaper by the Dozen and The Pink Panther got something incredibly right, but he honestly knocks his latest film, Real Steel, out of the park. Shawn Levy gets right what Michael Bay has gotten wrong over the course of three straight Transformers films. Real Steel is a gratifying and visually stylish blend of high end special effects and a lowbrow, meat-headed story. Most importantly, Levy and his team of writers keep things simple by applying the standard sports movie template to a film about robots beating the snot out of each other.
Real Steel - Hugh Jackman

Real Steel Canadian Premiere Interviews

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A couple of weeks ago Walt Disney Studios, Touchstone Pictures, and Dreamworks had the Canadian premiere of their latest film Real Steel at the Scotiabank Theatre in Toronto. The event was attended by Canadian actors Kevin Durand (from Thunder Bay) and Dakota Goyo (from Newmarket) and the film's Canadian director Shawn Levy (from Montreal). It was also attended by a guy best known for playing a really pissed off Canadian (despite being Australian): Hugh Jackman.