Looking for an alternative to Transformers and Tammy this 4th of July weekend? Consider Snowpiercer. Korean filmmaker Joon-Ho Bong makes his English-language debut film with a worthy entry into the sci-fi genre. In a world not unlike our own, the human population has polluted the Earth with green house gases. The threat of climate change […]
All right, so this film is not the most believable, but then again, how many films actually are? Especially those in the family-friendly adventure genre? Sure, there are those films behind which meticulous research was done and it is applied with great care and thoughtfulness, which pays off on screen. However, even in those ones […]
Writer-director John Carney understands music. He recognizes that a song can save a life, even more so for a musician. In his newest movie, Begin Again, a follow-up to his award-winning debut, Once, music is ingrained in the lives of its characters, especially in their heartbreak. The story follows Greta (Keira Knightley) and her long-time boyfriend […]
For some reason, I had a thought that if the story of this film was made as a montage (without dialogue) along the lines of the montage sequence that can be seen in Pixar’s Up, which in my opinion, is one of the best montages ever, this film might be better as an overall experience, […]
There is something that is endlessly watchable about the 61-year-old Liam Neeson butt-kicking action flicks that sort of glosses over how mediocre of a film they sometimes are. I missed out on a few, but I think I am along for the ride for good now. Non-Stop, the newest in the grizzled, old grandpa superhero […]
Confession time: I was one of the reasons Veronica Mars was originally cancelled. I discovered the show in high school on DVD, a few years after it went off the air, and quickly discovered its impressively large group of loyal followers who bemoaned the loss of their favorite teenage detective for nearly seven years before […]
“Fear The Man With Nothing To Lose.” This is the tag line on the movie poster to writer/director David Michod’s The Rover, his follow-up to 2010’s critically acclaimed debut, Animal Kingdom. It indicates the dark and desperate heart at the center of Michod’s gritty future world. The movie takes place ten years after a global economic […]
It was surprising that Clint Eastwood would direct an adaptation of the award winning-stage-show Jersey Boys, which tells the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. What we got was a standard musical bio-pic about the group. In Belleville, New Jersey, 1951, Frankie Castelluccio (John Lloyd Young) is an apprentice barber with a high […]
There is something tricky about describing a creation of Seth MacFarlane’s to the uninitiated that takes a lot of practice and fine-line tip-toeing to fully master. You do not want to just blurt out the basic premise for fear of scaring someone off: ‘It’s about a dirty-talking, raunchy teddy bear who’s Mark Walberg’s BFF’. You […]
12 Years a Slave, based on the non-fiction book of the same name, is the Oscar-winning biographical epic by Steve McQueen. The film’s weighty narrative follows the abduction and suffering of free-born musician, Solomon Northup into the southern slave trade. McQueen set the bar pretty high for himself with his first two feature-length films (Hunger, 2009 and […]
