Ben Affleck has gone from Batman to The Accountant to bringing in the new year as the prohibition gangster, Joe Coughlin. He takes on the roles of director, lead actor and screenwriter in this adaption of Dennis Lehane’s latest novel. This has been a partnership that has worked well in the past with Affleck’s adaptation of Gone Baby Gone. Can Affleck’s […]
The month of January is traditionally the time when studios unload many of their less desirable projects. Monster Trucks has suffered from production issues for the past two years. It has a reputable director and contains noteworthy cast members, but it looks like it has earned its place in the January release schedule. Can this monstrous […]
Hidden Figures tells the story of three black women working at NASA’s in a still segregated 1960’s Virginia, each possessing mathematical genius instrumental in sending American astronauts into space. Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson (played by the equally excellent Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Monae, respectively) are employed at NASA as […]
“With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.” – Edgar Allan Poe The nature of his life and his name is poetic: Paterson (Adam Driver) is a bus driver in the city of Paterson, New Jersey. The city he drives through each day was the birthplace of one of the world’s most famous poets, William Carlos […]
The video game based film. Once the elicitor of waves of excitement from gamer fans, now brings about feelings of cautious apprehension and even groans in some cases, depending on the game being brought to screen. The genuine feeling is that the film won’t be any good, for the same reasons that most video game […]
Passengers, directed by The Imitation Game’s Morten Tyldum is an unusual concept and it is definitely marketed that way, but while watching it, it is not as innovative as it thinks it is. Although it does have some elements in its script that audiences have not seen before, Passengers still finds a way to be […]
Mechanic: Resurrection, the sequel to 2011’s The Mechanic falls comfortably within star Jason Statham’s wheelhouse – it’s a competent, predictable action thriller that aims to make up for its paper-thin characters and very little story with an abundance of action setpieces. Directed by Dennis Gansel and written by Philip Shelby and Tony Mosher from a […]
Our experiences are never addressed in linearity. We digest in the most curvaceous pathways. We all are not on the same methodology of travel or we might be and are able to perceive in differing ways. Nevertheless, through our own syllogisms, our paths appear divergent. Within the onset of Kenneth Lonergan’s highly anticipated film, Manchester […]
Here we are again, almost exactly one year removed from the release of last year’s The Force Awakens. This year, another highly anticipated release in the Star Wars universe is here in Rouge One: A Star Wars Story. From the looks of the trailers it seemed that this film could be a worthy entry. Peel […]
For parents around the world, there would have to be two questions that come to mind before attending Sing. Do we really need another film about a world inhabited by animals and another film about a singing competition? The answer to both questions was a surprise for this parent and for those who will attend this […]
