You don’t buy a ticket for a movie called “Cocaine Bear” without expecting unrestrained chaos. However, the elements you don’t expect make this wild ride more fun. It’s directed by actress/director Elizabeth Banks (“Charlie’s Angels,” “The Hunger Games”) and fueled by her twisted sense of dark humor. It’s also loosely based on actual events. By […]
Despite writer, director, producer and star Elizabeth Banks (Pitch Perfect, Love & Mercy) proving there is a bit more mileage in a franchise that’s been around since the 70’s; Charlie’s Angels newest revival is still an unnecessary commodity. Nearly a decade since Barrymore, Diaz and Lui first rebooted the original TV show, Banks version is
Following upon The Lego Movie (2014), this sequel continues the adventures of the “Master Builders” who started out as resistance fighters against Lord Business and his army of Micro Managers. Emmet (Pratt) and Wyldstyle (Banks) were heroic in the previous story and ended up as best friends in a happy town, Bricksburg, where everyone is special. It should be
Brian Henson is the son of The Muppets creator Jim Henson and directed previous Muppet films Muppet Treasure Island and The Muppet Christmas Carol. The Happytime Murders is a lot like Who Framed Roger Rabbit but with a hard R-rating. It almost feels like Henson’s 12-year-old self is rebelling against his father and their legacy.
What began as an exciting and gripping film series back in 2012 has slowly lost its “fire” as the three-part book series / four-part film spectacles come to an anticlimactic close in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2. “Glad it’s over,” was the general response, as the series that helped launch Oscar winner Jennifer
The sequel to the raunchy male stripper film feels like excess fat trimmed from the original and organized into a barely tolerable movie.
The moment Love & Mercy goes from a moderately interesting film occurs gently. Here I thought the musical biopic had sung its last note, then producer turned director Bill Pohlad offers up something systematically different by way of the editing room and perfect casting. The real strong point of Love & Mercy is the trio
2012 seems like forever ago, and in between now and then, Oscar nominee Anna Kendrick has become a global superstar, had a hit single and unfortunately turned her amazing voice into a gimmick. I have grown to admire the tremendous talent that is Kendrick, her dark performance in Cake last year, the gritty indie turn
Perhaps the film Mud (2012) had a bigger influence and impact on filmmakers than it did on viewers. David Gordon Green’s latest, Joe, and now Sara Colangelo’s Little Accidents both seem to grow from the same fertilizer that Mud derived from. Jacob Lofland, who played “Neckbone” in Mud, gets typecast in his second feature but