2015

Ashby

     Nat Wolff continues to win me over with his relatable comic humor. Most widely known as the blind kid in The Fault in Our Stars, Wolff was most recently seen in the forgettable teenage drama Paper Towns. Ashby provides the 20 year old with his most fully fleshed out character yet. Mickey Rourke continues […]

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Just Jim

Just Jim is the second, actor turned directorial debut, at SXSW. Craig Roberts might not be a household name just yet, however if you saw his extraordinary performance in Submarine (2010) then you understand how he works. Oliver Tate, his Submarine persona somewhat reflects his true personality. Submarine, a film centered around a depressed teenager

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Everest

This isn’t Vertical Limit nor is this just another mindless disaster movie. Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur (The Deep, 2 Guns) has set out, not only to capture the tragic events of the 1996 climb, but to explore the various types of people who want to risk their lives to survive Everest. What caught my attention

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Cooties

Cooties rides the line of horror, gross behavior and stupidity like Jennifer’s Body, This is the End, or other over-the-top scary horror flicks. It’s a story about TV actors out of a current job, who ban together to fill out Fort Chicken Elementary where a terrible virus has turned the little ones into flesh eating

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Captive

  Captive, a really tight, tense thriller, portrays the desperation of an inmate frustrated about being locked up for so long for something he did not do. (The film leaves unclear whether he is right or not, but seems to imply that he is correct.) Brian Nichols (Oyelowo) decides to take matters into his own

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