Dave Franco, the younger of the Franco Brothers has now thrown his hat into the director’s ring, like older sibling James (“The Disaster Artist”). “The Rental” is a conventional horror genre flick; four friends, mysterious house, isolated surroundings, you know how these things go. It stars Franco’s wife Alison Brie (“Sleeping With Other People”), and […]
The last decent Michael Bay movie was Transformers (2007). Since then the action director has delivered a buffet of discardable sequels and ornamental Wal-Mart shelf one-offs. Up to now, everything was done under the studio system, and while it’s true the 2013 Pain & Gain (based on a very violent true story) was an attempt
Oscar winner Barry Jenkins highly anticipated new film opens exactly the way you would hope. A perfectly timed musical score from his “Moonlight” collaborating composer Nicholas Britell folds into the frame. The two lead actors (KiKi Layne and Stephan James) wearing outfits that compliment each other, slowly walk down the street daydreaming about their future
It’s hard to describe what this movie is, but one thing for sure, it’s one of James Franco’s best films behind the camera after a long continuous stream of junk. It’s also a career best for Dave Franco (Nerve) who has long struggled to find a role that provided a substantive challenge. There is a
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
From the directors of the found footage film Catfish (2010) and Paranormal Activity 4, comes the duo’s first foray into mainstream feature film. Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman yet again cater to high school students with a film that couldn’t be debuting at a more convenient time with the world obsessed with Pokémon Go. Nerve
You may not know who Jon M. Chu is, you probably haven’t seen any of his movies. He is the director behind such reboots like Jem and the Holograms (18% on rottentomatoes.com), sequels such as G.I. Joe: Retaliation (28%), but let us not forget his historic collaborations with Justin Bieber on “Believe” and “Never Say
“There is no “I” in sorority”, Zac Efron’s character Teddy Sanders proudly tells his former neighbors. The ripped, bronze character has gotten even dumber since we saw him last, as has the writing. The sequel to the inexpensive, but high grossing R rated film of 2014, has the vulgarity turned down, but the jokes are
If you want to know what’s wrong with American comedies, look no further than the latest buddy film starring Vince Vaughn. I might sound like a broken record, but these films apparently have an imaginary check list that requires a drug sequence, separate male and female genitalia exposures, grotesque sex sequences, a car crash
Director Nicholas Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) has his check list of vulgar comedy items to get through in his latest film, Neighbors. What started off as an idea of 30 year olds reaching that point where they still crave fun but need the calm and quiet to function as parents provides the conundrum for the