The setting of this animation of absolutely no value is grade school with a mean principal, Mr. Krupp (Helms) who has it in for two student cartoonists, George (Hart) and Harold (Middleditch), pranksters who constantly thwart Krupp’s efforts. Of course, he is shown as being just as humorless and bad as the two pranksters are […]
Warner Bros and DC comics have more riding on the first solo “Wonder Woman” film than just earning a profit. This marks the first female led superhero film since Marvel’s “Elektra”, and before that, it was 1986’s “Supergirl”. Wonder Woman is also only the second superhero film (first major one) directed by a female. Patty
We are almost half way through 2017, and Churchill (one of two films portraying the iconic Brit) delivers the first potential leading actor awards contender. With a career spanning over four decades of supporting character roles, Brian Cox (Rise of the Planet of the Apes), the ever-villain, gets his big, bombastic leading performance and it’s
I respect the Cannes film festival and the focus it brings to innovative, international cinema. I, Daniel Blake is the 2016 Palm d’Or winner and director Ken Loach’s second time taking the top prize. They couldn’t have chosen a more simple, naturalistic film, it almost reminds me of how someone dropped their reading glasses in
The updated Baywatch is no longer set in California (or Hawaii), it’s been revamped to Miami Beach. “Are you Batman?”, Mitch Buchannon’s latest rescued survivor asks. “Yea, sure. Just bigger and browner,” he replies. The original show aired from 1989 until the early 2000’s, evolving with the times and jump starting a lot of careers
Disney has taken a desperate approach to revive one of its longest running and high grossing franchises. “Pirates of the Caribbean” returns with a fifth installment (they swore the fourth was the final), titled “Dead Men Tell No Tales”. New directors, new musical composer, but the same old story. It’s hard to imagine back in
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Room has certainly inspired similar films to come out of the woodwork. Berlin Syndrome is the latest, taking the concept of one person locked in a room against her will. Presented as a thriller, Berlin Syndrome is a cat and mouse game that never finds a profound message. Teresa Palmer (Hacksaw Ridge) called this role
The Buena Vista Social Club dates back to 1996, when a loosely connected group of veteran musicians were brought together in Havana rather spontaneously to record two albums by African and Cuban musicians. The African musicians did not arrive because of visa problems, but band leader Juan de Marcos Gonzalez was determined to reinstate music
I had all but given up on the Memorial Weekend movies until I saw new thriller Black Butterfly. The trailer didn’t show anything too enticing, it looked like another cat and mouse thriller, set in a remote location, shot on a cheap budget. The first few minutes of the thriller even met my lower expectations,
Munchausen’s by Proxy constitutes one of the more mysterious, and even bizarre, medical diagnoses in that it refers to a mother purposely making her child ill in order to fill her own unmet needs. As noted by psychologist Dr. Marc Feldman in this documentary, Claudine “Deedee” Blanchard represents one of the most severe cases seen,