There is a very good reason The Trust is debuting in limited release and VOD at the same time. When the film was introduced at SXSW, the announcer jokingly said it was “Very Cagey”, but for those who have charted the steady decline of the once admired Oscar winning actor, you know what it means. […]
Why is it that the best horror films of the year are never really horror films? “Green Room” will forever be placed in that stereotyped category, but Jeremy Saulnier’s follow-up to his indie hit “Blue Ruin” is better than the distinction. The key element to “Green Room” (which refers to the room at a venue
I was a bit worried about Gavin Hood’s “Eye in the Sky”. It looked nearly identical to Andrew Niccol’s drone thriller “Good Kill”, starring Ethan Hawke last year. While both films explore the new technological world of modern day warfare, “Eye in the Sky” takes the viewer deeper into the politics of using drones as
If you mention the word “dementia” in combination with Oscar winning actor Christopher Plummer you might assume you know what Remember is about. Your decision to see this film or not might depend on attention span and patience. “Do you remember what you said you would do after Ruth died?”. That’s just one of the
Not a fan of the 2008, JJ Abrams produced “Cloverfield” movie. The “found footage” alien attack film, has been called a “blood relative” to the mysterious “10 Cloverfield Lane”. Filmed under secret names and only announced two months before it would hit theaters, secrecy was a priority for the film. Of course this type of
Norway’s submission to the 88th Annual Academy Awards wasn’t nominated for best foreign film. Still it’s an impressive piece of cinema for the country, breaking box office records on opening day. Yet when you widen the scope and compare The Wave to other disaster films, like Oscar nominated South American film The Impossible, it’s not
The Force Awakens actor Oscar Isaac returns to the big screen in the little indie thriller Mojave.
Only one other western in recent memory has combined elements of horror, although Ron Howard’s The Missing never took the gruesome route S. Craig Zahler delivers here.
Billy Ray’s Secret in Their Eyes feels more like the writer/director is trying to deliver the same type of Thanksgiving thrills Prisoners (2013) did two years ago.
Writer/director Ramin Bahrani’s last film At Any Given Price (2012) took a hard look at the family unit, human condition, and the corruption that fell between them. His latest, 99 Homes, continues to explore dramatic and stressful situations, with families at the center. This time everything from the performances to the script are more finely