DISCLAIMER: The special features were unavailable, so this review will solely be focused on the movie. The 1967 Taiwanese movie Dragon Inn is a very influential wuxia martial arts movie, setting the template for other movies in the genre to follow and was an international success. It has been painstakingly restored and is now a […]
Isn’t this just a retelling of The Family Stone? The challenge will be to provide something new for families this Christmas season. Charlotte Cooper (Diane Keaton) merely wants to get her family together for Christmas. An annual event that may be familiar to many people for bringing with it both joy and trepidation to all involved. Her husband, […]
Creed presents us with another incarnation of the Rocky franchise, but does anyone care about the Italian Stallion anymore? The buzz seems to show that there is still some strength in this storyline. Adonis Johnson (Michael B. Jordan) has struggled throughout his life. His adolescence has been spent in foster care and juvenile detention where he learned to find his […]
Here we come now to the end of it all. No more games. This is the piece fans of the series have been waiting for and if you were one of those who might have had a problem with last year’s Mockingjay Part 1, then this one just might satisfy you. A tough deal it […]
The Boston Globe has been known for being a leader in investigative journalism throughout modern news reporting. The Globe’s “Spotlight” team has existed since the 70’s and has a reputation for breaking open some of the most important stories in reporting history. When this Boston Globe team decided to look into some of the dealings of […]
When watching the previews of By the Sea, you are mesmerized by the glamorous setting and a super stylized Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. The audience member is probably sucked in thinking that this is a glimpse into the real life of a superstar couple. Jolie, directing from a script that she wrote, was probably banking […]
Ah cricket, the sport that is seen as a quintessentially English one, a sport that is the pinnacle of fair-play and sportsmanship. But the documentary Death of a Gentleman sets out to prove there is something wrong with the state of cricket. Death of a Gentleman was the product of Englishman Sam Collins and Australian […]
Do you remember the story of the school girl who was shot by the Taliban in Pakistan for wanting to go to school? Her name is Malala. In 2012, Malala Yousafzai was travelling to school with the rest of her classmates when a Taliban gunman came up to the bus, asked her name and shot her in […]
A little bit of mental health, a touch of homelessness, but all of it is handled with a tasteful touch of comedy that makes it alright in the end. Alan Bennett (Alex Jennings) is a playwright who likes his solitude. He decides to buy a house in Camper Down, London, on a nondescript street that is known […]
Brooklyn, an adaptation from Colm Tóibín’s novel by screenwriter Nick Hornby, opens with a shot of a gloomy street in a rainy Irish village during the 1950s. This road is the world of Eilis (Saoirse Ronan); and it appears to be a dead end. Her social and professional prospects appear limited in a small community where everyone know one […]
