Inside Llewyn Davis is a lyrical, dark exploration of a man who has reached rock bottom. The story follows Llewyn Davis, who is the surviving member of a folk duo after his partner commits suicide. Now he’s trying to make it on his own as a solo act but is constantly stymied along way. Llewyn […]
Mamoru Hosoda is not the next Hayao Miyazaki, but another powerful and distinctive voice in the anime industry and his latest film, Wolf Children (Okami Kodomo no Ame toYuki), is bonafide proof of this. The film is centered around a young, 19 year old girl named Hana, who is studying at a university in Tokyo, […]
The Girl on Fire is back, the Mockingjay and the symbol of hope against a repressive regime returns in The Hunger Games Catching Fire, a film that fans of the novel will be extremely pleased with. After winning the Games, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) has been suffering nightmares and has been unable to spend time with […]
In Irish History, the Catholic Church had been responsible for destroying many young women’s lives, by shaming them for having children out of wedlock and sentencing them to labor camps. Philomena Lee is one of them.
Space Battleship Yamato is one of the most revered space operas of Japanese animation and has manged to leave a long lasting legacy in sci-fi anime.
We are thrusted once again into the world of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and fully into the realm of Asgard with the sequel to 2011’s Thor, a movie that is unashamed of it mash up of fantasy and sci-fi.
War is hell, so is adapting teen novels. For every success like The Hunger Games we get a movie The Host. Based on what is consider one of the great sci-fi novels, Gavin Hood delivers an entertaining mix of The Hunger Games, Harry Potter and Starship Troopers with his adaptation of Ender’s Game.
A horror anthology that has both its hits and misses, but manages to be well done enough to sport at least a single viewing.
There was a time where I believed that Luc Besson would never direct a film again.
Johnnie To, a Hong Kong master of the crime genre, has once again struck gold with his latest film, Drug War.
