From the director of such straight to DVD classics like Mortal Kombat: Annihilation and The Butterfly Effect 2, comes another trash bin worthy suspense flick. John R. Leonetti is apparently the guy you call when no one else will direct your film. Wish Upon calls itself a horror film because it’s got jump scares (boo-like-moments […]
This documentary will sweep you off your feet with its brilliant images of underwater life, then bring you up short in informing you of the precariousness of ocean reefs and the dangers to us all in the event that a whole eco-system on which 500 million people rely for food and livelihood disappears (which could
It’s hard to imagine a woman in the early 1900’s forging ahead in a man’s world like Gertrude Bell did. Born in 1868 into a family of means, Gertrude Bell early on set her sights on places far from her native England. She was always cheeky, and when she graduated from Oxford, she was sent
There are a few films each year that seem to hit at the right moment, with all the right themes. Kumail Nanjiani’s The Big Sick, already won investors at Sundance (landing a $12 million dollar deal with Amazon), audiences at SXSW, and now with enthusiastic support from the critics (Anne Thompson calling it a best
I can appreciate clever, raunchy comedy, but there isn’t much here to laugh at. Writer Jeff Baena (I Heart Huckabees), also the director, takes what’s essentially a one act joke and expands it into a feature. I think I laughed one time, but the jokes are not very creative, and I don’t find profanity humorous
The best news about the third Spider-Man reboot (now in the hands of Marvel, still a product of Sony like the previous five installments), is they forgo the origin story. No spider bite, no dead uncle, we’ve been origin story’d to death with these reboots. Director Jon Watts (“Natural Selection”, “Cop Car”) takes a cue
The special effects, humor, and sheer imagination of the Despicable Me series continue to be refreshing and delightful for children. There were many chuckles from children (and adults, by the way) in the screening I attended, as well as sighs during the tender moments. Like its predecessors, 3 is mostly entertaining (as it’s meant to
Super pigs, rapid fire poo balls with both Tilda Swinton and Jake Gyllenhaal playing cartoon like characters means this must be a Bong Joon-Ho film. The critically acclaimed South Korean director followed up action packed Snowpiercer with another thought provoking original concept. It’s hard not to like this film; it’s funny, cute, slightly twisted but
Filmmaker Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) turned a corner in his career, shooting his first film in the United States. Working with new faces on screen and crew behind it’s a new era for the director. Baby Driver is still very much in the vein of his previous work, but it’s more
Best director winner at Cannes film festival 2017, Sofia Coppola insists her version of The Beguiled is not a remake of the 1971 Clint Eastwood film; rather an alternative adaptation to Thomas Cullinan’s novel. The Beguiled might be Coppola’s most accessible film to date, that’s not saying much following films The Bling Ring, Marie Antoinette