Since the beginning of cinema, audiences have flocked to films with a good love story

Spock’s mom is going to the ballet.

Darren Aronofsky is a film maker who has never taken the easy road and his latest project Black Swan is no exception to that.

Rourke completely loses himself in Randy “The Ram” Robinson. You completely believe in who this character is even though he is thoroughly flawed you root for him in everything he does from wrestling matches to trying to patch things up with his estranged daughter.

Appearing on numerous top 10 lists and seemingly resurrecting Mickey Rourke’s career as an actor, The Wrestler could have been about any working-class schmo struggling to make a living. Darren Aronofsky’s film is an expressive portrait of a man’s last shot at redemption. If you missed it during its theatrical run don’t worry. The DVD Lounge is giving away a few copies. Enter today!!!

Mickey Rourke gives a tour de force in one of the year’s most surprising films.

Just days after Darren Aronofsky’s film, The Wrestler, won the coveted Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, it was embroiled in a bidding war tug-of-war between a number of studios at the Toronto International Film Festival. The victor, Fox Searchlight, acquired the U.S. rights for about $4 million.

Two years ago, Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain bombed miserably at the Venice Film Festival. Then it was unceremoniously dumped into theaters a few weeks after Casino Royale and Happy Feet.
Where most men would have cowered and never come back, Aronofsky picked himself up and directed The Wrestler, which, like his 2006 effort, had to deal [...]