Annabelle: Creation – the prequel to a spin-off from The Conjuring show there is plenty of life in The Conjuring series and a big improvement on 2014’s Annabelle. The Mullins family are a seemingly happy all-American family in the 1940s: but like in many beginnings in horror films The Mullins are struck with tragedy. 12-years later The Mullins open up their […]
Outside the world of golf the name Tommy Morris doesn’t mean much to the general populace, but to an avid golfer both the Junior and Senior Morrises played a profound role in sporting history. Based on actual events, “Old Tom” (Peter Mullan) was the greens keeper at The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St […]
Family is a word that can provide tears and smiles at the same time. Gifted provides a glimpse into the great love and pain that come at the hands of family. Proving that the both the great joy and color can come through the messiness of life. It is the first day of school in […]
How to learn to succeed against any and all odds is the theme of the drama, The Glass Castle, based on the haunting 2005 memoir by Jeanette Wallis starring Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts. Jeanette Wallis (played as a child by Ella Anderson, and young teen and adult by Larson) and her three […]
Most people are aware even peripherally of the eating disorder known as anorexia nervosa, or more simply, anorexia. Impressionable individuals, young girls in most cases, but boys too, will see a model walking down the runway or on a magazine cover and aspire to that look our society so praises as the example of beauty […]
The strongest stories about best friends know exactly what works and stick with that to the max. There is little deviation from that core piece and if there is any deviation at all it occurs to serve and strengthen that aspect of the film. Think of the Spielberg film E.T. for instance, which was about […]
Steven Soderbergh (Oceans Eleven) has had an amazing career as a director and has delivered some of the most significant films of the past three decades. From Sex, Lies and Videotapes to his Academy Award winner of Erin Brockovich, he has proven to have skills and the pliability to change within an industry that has […]
2017 has been a big year for the racially charged film with Jordan Peele’s Get Out leading the pack. That film made such a splash that tons of conversations, podcast and think pieces cropped up and continue to push Peele’s social thriller deeper into our collective consciousness and as well as pop culture. Here we are […]
The Dark Tower is a long in development adaption of the Stephen King novel, directed By Nicholaj Arcel, starring Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey, and Tom Taylor in the famous roles. The Dark Tower is an involved series of eight books, written by King, which incorporates films from multiple genres, including western, fantasy, science fiction and horror. […]
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, written and directed by Luc Besson, is breathtakingly gorgeous and full of wonderfully imaginative sci-fi concepts. Unfortunately, its plot and characters are nowhere near as interesting. Based on French science fiction comic series Valérian and Laureline, City of a Thousand Planets is set in the 28th century, […]
