The Glass Castle doesn’t work well on screen under director Destin Daniel Cretton’s vision for a handful of reasons. The first and foremost is how the narrative manipulates the audience’s emotions and feelings towards the monstrous father figure. While Harrelson (Wilson) and Larson (Kong Skull Island) are astutely cast, the best parts of the film […]
Following his Oscar nominated script for “Hell or High Water” and critically acclaimed “Sicario”, writer, now director, Taylor Sheridan has quickly become the master of modern day suspense thrillers. “Wind River” is the third consecutive script focusing on law enforcement. However, each film showcases an off shoot of the police force uncommonly presented on the
In this version of the Nut Job stories, the animals have found that the nut store from the first story is abandoned and filled to the brim with nuts and nut products. They are gorging to their hearts’ content, getting lazy and spoiled, according to Andie (Heigl); she realizes that the store has a real
“Stepping” or step-dancing is one in which the dancer’s body is used like an instrument to make complex sounds and rhythms with footsteps, spoken words, and clapping. This award-winning documentary by Amanda Lipitz was filmed at the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women (BLSYW), a charter school founded by Lipitz’s mother, Brenda Brown Rever, for
The long-awaited Stephen King adaptation The Dark Tower is a disaster on nearly every level. The most confounding part of it is how any movie with Elba and McConaughey could be this bland. The “McConaissance” has officially ended. Looking at the selection of King novels adapted to the big screen, there are more duds than
It is rather dismaying to see how little people have changed since An Inconvenient Truth (2006). Yes, Al Gore makes a big point in this sequel to express optimism (justified, I’m sure) about the future, and certainly we can be pleased with the fact that President Trump’s pulling the U.S. out of the accords in
Trash TV is basically what you get with Halle Berry’s new film, “Kidnap.” This plot isn’t all that different from “The Call’, where the former Bond girl played a 9/11 operator who takes justice into her own hands. “Kidnap” joins the collection of films starring high-profile Hollywood celebrities participating in these cheap, easy, thrill-a-minute flicks that
Writer/director Gillian Robespierre re-teams with comedian Jenny Slate (Gifted) following their 2014 pregnancy film Obvious Child. Landline is a family dramedy that wallows in the era of 1995 so much that many scenes are devoted to nostalgic images over advancing the plot. Landline is also another film that promotes the worst aspect of New York
Oscar winning director Kathryn Bigelow returns after “Zero Dark Thirty” with another pulse pounding true story, that feeds directly into today’s social relevancy. “Detroit” examines the 1967 riots that nearly destroyed a city, but the specific focus here is police brutality at a local area hotel that isn’t too far from today’s headlines. Bigelow and
Texas filmmaker David Lowery’s latest film is an experiment. It’s an artistic endeavor, it’s risky, it requires everything from the viewer and only gives you something in return if you let it. A Ghost Story however doesn’t work as a cinematic feature, at least not in the traditional sense of a customer buying a ticket