While documentary turned feature film director Joe Berlinger’s latest Ted Bundy film doesn’t have much new to say about the notorious serial killer, it does take the stance that all women were stupid in the 1970’s. Efron, has built a career around toned abs and killer smiles, and on the one hand the beefy actor […]
UglyDolls is not really about being ugly; it’s about being different or outside the mold. The message is worthwhile, but it takes a long time to get there, and the means of delivering it simply doesn’t measure up in terms of being interesting, entertaining, or inspiring. On the contrary, it seemed to me that I was enduring an
If anyone cares to remember the 2015 Jennifer Lopez trash cinema “The Boy Next Door,” where a realistic situation is turned into smut tv on screen, that’s exactly what you are getting with “The Intruder.” These movies (I refuse to call them films because there is zero cinematic integrity) are bad on their own, but
Whether you realize it or not, “Long Shot” is “Notting Hill” re-imagined. Of course, “Notting Hill” was just a modern day, gender-flipped “Cinderella.” The screenplay isn’t written by Rogen, yet it’s the typical Rogen weird-guy-lands-the-hot-girl story, with plenty of vulgar masturbation jokes and illegal drug use. The timing for a film about running for president
There are so many ways this spy drama could have gone, but the television turned movie director Trevor Nunn seems at odds with how to navigate through the backstory. “Red Joan” uses the same framework as “The Wife,” going back and forth between the present and the past. Oscar-winner Dame Judi Dench (her performance is
Hawke re-connects with “Born to be Blue” director Robert Budreau for the wackiest bank robbery since “Bandits” (2011). “Stockholm” happens to be a comedic retelling of the 1973 bank robbery that led to the coining of the term Stockholm syndrome, despite much of the reality being altered for the film. “Stockholm” is often quite entertaining thanks
The long-awaited sequel to the “Avengers Infinity War” cliffhanger has arrived and one of two opening sequences, begin with something rarely seen in Marvel movie, consequences. The three-hour epic, again directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, have touted this finale as something that will change the genre forever. The irony for the Avengers franchise is
Sometimes when you take a chance on a movie you’re mildly curious about, it pays off, other times, not so much. One of those this year was JT Leroy, a wild but true story from the early 2000s. In a way, this film is like a female counterpart to last year’s The Disaster Artist and the ridiculousness
Is 76-year-old Mike Leigh’s latest film “Peterloo” the most mundane film you will see this year? Probably. Which explains why it didn’t sell at last year’s Toronto Film Festival and is only now hitting theaters seven months later. Leigh’s argument that the events of “Peterloo” are more relevant today than ever before is quite correct.
A few things to note, don’t judge Teen Spirit on it’s poster. For one, it’s not your average teenager – wants to become a rock-star movie, this is an indie flick with slightly more to say. Second, it’s also not a Nichols Winding Refn movie, despite how the poster is crushing on his work (I