The Letters
If television director William Riead was aiming to create a film with the ultimate purpose of delivering dates and information, then one might measure The Letters as a success.
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My All American
My All American is written to be inspirational, showing that true grit, family, and religious faith is a winning combination.
Bridge of Spies
With all the inventive, daredevil, envelope pushing cinema we have seen in the last few years, Steven Spielberg delivers a stale cold war thriller that is about as edgy and thrilling as a plastic knife. “Bridge of Spies” is Hanks and Spielberg’s fourth collaboration, but the first time the “Saving Private Ryan” director has worked
Goosebumps
The film comically mentions that bestselling children’s book author R.L. Stine has sold more books than Stephen King, yet this is the first major motion picture based on his work. The Goosebumps movie project has been tossed around Hollywood for a while, but this particular script over reaches trying to shove all 62 original
Time Out of Mind
Writer/director Owen Moverman helped Woody Harrelson reinvent his career with films The Messenger and Rampart. Now Moverman has created a unique and cinematic experience with Richard Gere. Experimental in nature, Time out of Mind follows a mentally unbalanced, alcoholic, homeless New York man as he wanders the streets. Moverman has Gere at the focus
Goodnight Mommy
Horror movies in 2015 have it rough, we get so much crap like those cheap and easy to produce “found footage” movies, so when we hear buzz about a foreign film in the horror genre, daring to offer up something different, interest in perked. Austrian filmmakers Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala deliver something different for
Sleeping With Other People
Early buzz from the Sundance Film Festival this year was that Sleeping With Other People, director Leslye Headland’s second feature film, was an overwhelming crowd-pleaser. So I was a bit disappointed to find out that the plot seems recycled from other mainstream romantic comedies like No Strings Attached and Friends with Benefits. There is
Black Mass
Director Scott Cooper certainly hit the ground running with his directorial debut “Crazy Heart” back in 2009 earning lead actor Jeff Bridges an Academy Award. His sophomore feature “Into the Furnace” in 2013 was hyped as an awards vehicle for lead Christian Bale, but that didn’t pan out so well after people saw the film.
The Scorch Trials
Scorch Trials is the second installment to The Maze Runner (2014) and is based on the popular teen novel series. As it often happens in adaptation series the makers of Scorch Trials seem so interested moving the story along, that they neglect to make the current film stand on its own. We know this can
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Diary of a Teenage Girl from the very first frame is presented as an exploration into the sexual life of a 15-year-old girl growing up in mid-seventies San Francisco.