Woody Allen might make a new film every single year, typically you have two bad ones before you get to the reoccurring third-good one. After two forgettable features with Emma Stone, Café Society shows a step forward and outside the 80-year-old directors comfort zone. Perhaps Bruce Willis helped fuel that by getting himself fired from […]
The problem with Thea Sharrock’s directorial debut, isn’t the simplicity or by the numbers storytelling. It’s that the entire movie is easily summed up in the two-minute trailer. Me Before You might as well be a sequel to both the American teenage love story The Fault in Our Stars or the international French hit The
Yorgos Lanthimos’s first English language film will stand out as 2016’s most peculiar film (although it played most film festivals last year). It should ignite fans of films like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind or I Heart Huckabees, as it seeks to bewilder the romance genre to an unrecognizable point. Its weirdness is its
I will say this for writer/director Lorene Scafaria, she sure knows how to invent maddening or borderline annoying characters. In her second feature, the Seeking A Friend at the End of the World director aligns a spectacular cast that affords Oscar winner Susan Sarandon her first leading role since I don’t know when. The controversial
It’s been a bad year for Oscar nominee Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air, Pitch Perfect). She’s already scored one of the worst films of the year, alongside Miles Teller in Get a Job, now Mr. Right is equally terrible. Back in 2007, Kevin Costner starred in a film called Mr. Brooks, that more successfully
A lot of fuss was made about the difficulty and boundaries being pushed to make The Revenant. It was a discussion that dominated that films award campaign that did not pay off in the end with Oscar voters concerning best picture. Making its North American debut at SXSW, the Indian film Loev (pronounced “love”) is
Autopilot, that’s not just what Tris (Woodley) uses when she steals a flying machine from the new villain of the series. It’s also what happens when these teen-based, sci-fi fantasy saga’s make so much money, that the creativity fly’s out the window the exact same time the money pours in. For those who haven’t read
Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong is the closest writer/director/producer Emily Ting has come to mainstream thus far. It’s too bad mainstream audiences first introduction to her work will look like a clear copycat of what Richard Linklater did with Before Sunrise. The comparisons are unavoidable, though Greenberg and Chung never come close to the intelligence
This film marginally succeeds simply because it’s not completely awful. Pride & Prejudice & Zombies comes from author Seth Grahame-Smith’s idea of taking Jane Austin’s beloved novel Pride & Prejudice and inserting a zombie apocalypse in-between our favorite moments with Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy. Originally Natalie Portman was attached to the project, and still serves
For Angelina Jolie’s third film behind the camera, (and the first time directing herself in front), she moves even farther away from mainstream expectations.