Film Review: Passengers, Cringe-Worthy
Before we go any further, let’s make one thing clear. This review contains spoilers. Proceed with caution. I’ll never quite understand the mentality that dictates that you can only like […]
Before we go any further, let’s make one thing clear. This review contains spoilers. Proceed with caution. I’ll never quite understand the mentality that dictates that you can only like […]
I enter every film based on anything other than an original screenplay the same way: I’m of a firm belief that you shouldn’t have to have had any exposure to […]
I’ve had many people ask me about this film (perhaps because it’s one of the few holiday releasees suitable for the entire family), and they’ve referred to it as “that […]
One of the better purely hand-drawn animated films of 2016, Long Way North tells the tale of Sasha (voiced by Christa Théret), a Russian teenager circa 1882, whose grandfather was […]
Sometimes a movie is bad just because it’s bad, and sometimes it’s bad because it wants so passionately to be good that it chokes on its noble intentions. The last […]
Despite what you may have been led to believe, writer-director Damien (Whiplash) Chazelle’s La La Land is not some type of homage to the Hollywood musicals of old. It only […]
I’ve had a lot of people ask me variations on “How can there be any suspense within Rogue One if we already know how it ends?” But it became evident […]
“For God’s sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings; How some have been deposed; some slain in war, Some haunted by […]
Just a few weeks ago, we were fortunate enough to get the brief release of director Antonio Campos film Christine, about Florida newscaster Christine Chubbuck, who killed herself on the […]
Is it childish, with adult humans acting like drunken, out-of-control teenagers? Naturally. Are the jokes cheap and tawdry? Oh, you know it. Is there destruction of property and perhaps even […]
Thanks to a handful of unexpected casting choices among the supporting cast and an impressive turn by lead actor Jessica Chastain, the battle of the lobbyists tale Miss Sloane is […]
First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy existed in a nearly impossible situation even before her husband was assassinated in November 1963. She was a fairly private person who believed that the White […]