Considering what life would offer in the twilight years has been the subject matter of a multitude of films. Youth provides a unique perspective in the lives of people who have been given success, but have to come to terms with life outside of the limelight and with each day seeming like borrowed time. The stellar cast makes Youth […]
It’s no secret that Michael Bay seems the type of filmmaker who deals less in politics than he does in patriotism. Many of his films involve strong military presence and the relationship he has spent years cultivating with the US military runs deep. His respect and admiration for the soldiers who fight in order to […]
January is considered the dumping ground for bad movies. Audiences are smaller than the rest of the year, so no tent pole movies are released. These non-tent pole movies are usually bad horror movies. Some past examples include 2014’s Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones and 2015’s The Woman in Black 2. Needless to say, my expectations […]
David O. Russell was brave with this film. His usual approach to film-making involves a brash delivery – think American Hustle or Silver Linings Playbook. The creator of additional films such as The Fighter and I Heart Huckabees embodies a poignant style of which audiences have come to appreciate. His works entangle many underlining parts, […]
Part survival adventure, part art-film, The Naked Prey is deservedly regarded as Cornel Wilde’s best movie – working as director and producer and starring in this deliberately minimalistic movie. Wilde stars as an unnamed man who leads a safari party into Savannah to hunt elephants for ivory. However, the Second Man (Gert van den Bergh) […]
Tom Hooper, director of The Danish Girl, manages to disguise a story that echoes today’s current events as a prim and modest period piece. Much like Hooper’s Academy Award Winning The King’s Speech, instead of crafting a character study focusing solely on the protagonist, The Danish Girl focuses on the character’s personal transformation as well as […]
The real stars of Quentin Tarantino’s eighth film, The Hateful Eight, are Tarantino’s signature dialogue and meticulous shot choices. He is one of the few directors in existence with enough fame and critical acclaim to sell tickets on his name only, and his films usually evoke only two specific emotions, love or hate. However you […]
Academy Award winning director Kathryn Bigelow’s Point Break remains a guilty pleasure for many who watched as Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves journeyed on the beaches in the early 90’s. Bigelow’s edition was fun, cool and did not take itself too seriously. Even with some of the over-the-top writing and acting, it still manages to hold its own within the extreme-sport genre. To reproduce […]
When going up against a giant, armed with only a stone, a slingshot and nerve, there is an understanding that the chances of success are slim to none. What makes someone face seemingly insurmountable odds knowing the possible outcome is an unfavorable one? Perhaps it is the notion of making an attempt against the opposition in […]
The German expressionist movie Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror is often regarded as one of the great movies of the silent era and it has been restored for a Blu-ray re-release by the British Film Institute (BFI). In the fictional German city of Wisburg in 1838, a young real estate agent and lawyer Hutter (Gustav […]
