It is not clear if Whisky Tango Foxtrot is a comedy or a wartime drama. It is based on the actual accounts of news correspondent Kim Barker‘s book, “The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan.” Should we be laughing or taking it seriously? Kim Baker’s (Tina Fey) life has become purposeless and lacking any inspiration. She works for a major […]
The big question has to be if the producers of The Angry Birds Movie can develop a plot from this popular on-line game? In 2009, the world of Angry Birds was introduced to the world as a simple downloadable video game. No one could have predicted the phenomenon that it would become or that it would lead to the […]
Captain America: Civil War is the third installment of Marvel’s very heavily anticipated Captain America series, starring Chris Evans as Captain America aka Steve Rogers and Robert Downey Jr. making a return as the titular Iron Man/Tony Stark. Also, included are most of the past Avengers as well as some new ones. Also returning are […]
Holding the Man tells a love story with an undeniable sense of warmth, but it never reaches the dramatic heights it’s aspiring to. Based on the 1995 memoir of the same name by Timothy Conigrave, Holding the Man is the story of Tim (Ryan Corr) and John (Craig Stott), who fell in love when they […]
I Saw the Light is a beautifully shot, well-acted biopic held back by its lack of focus and purpose. It sets out to tell the story of famous country-western singer Hank Williams (Tom Hiddleston), who rose to stardom in the mid-1940s, before tragically dying young in 1953 due to poor health. I Saw the Light […]
The art of film-making is to bring one out of a linearity– to transcend another world into the minds who so willingly allow it. Actor-director Sebastian Schipper’s single-shot film, does not even allow viewers to the mobility to choose, but rather forces them to join a predetermined path. We awake within the illumination of a […]
Marvel’s Civil War storyline is one of the biggest recent comic storylines, a storyline that sees some of the biggest Marvel characters coming to blows. It is now the loose basis for the third Captain America movie where the hostilities between Captain America and Iron Man that have been present in the previous movie finally […]
Within a few weeks of one another, two films are being released to the world based on the life of Florence Foster Jenkins. The French and British productions of the heiress who dreamt of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice. Florence Foster Jenkins’ story provides a multitude of dramatic considerations which explains why it is the […]
Ratchet & Clank is based on the popular Playstation game series of the same name and is the first of many video adaptations to come in 2016, alongside the ranks of Warcraft, the Angry Birds movie and Assassin’s Creed. Unfortunately, Ratchet & Clank is a lackluster space adventure that’s only mildly entertaining at best, failing […]
Can a real estate agent find redemption? The mundane life has taken over Frank Mollard’s (Anthony LaPaglia) existence. Recently divorced, he is merely walking through the motions of his career as a real estate agent and it has caused friends and family to be worried that he is losing touch with everything of […]
