Black Mass is a true-life gangster film about Boston gangster James Bulger, better known as Whitey Bulger, because of his blond hair. Whitey is a name that James Bulger himself hated. He is played in the film by Johnny Depp. The film is set in the period when he was a leading gang-land figure in […]
Walking into Victor Frankenstein, I admit I did not have the highest hopes for this film. Usually when famous classic stories are “re-imagined”, the audience is so familiar with the tale that it’s hard to see it with an updated perspective. It is hard for the audience to see what the director wants us to […]
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 […]
In box office news from this weekend, audiences ran to see the final installment of the Hunger Games franchise and… not much else, despite the wide release of two major films with all-star casts. According to Forbes, both Sony’s The Night Before and STX Entertainment’s The Secrets in Their Eyes opened to little fanfare and failed […]
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 […]
