How does one draw enthusiasm and excitement from a film about the history of golf? In the case of Tommy’s Honour, one doesn’t. In all fairness, the film isn’t about the history of golf, nor does it set out to be the next Tin Cup or Caddyshack. Regardless, its story, ...
LIFE is the story of what might happen if a team of scientists aboard the International Space Station were to discover and nurture an alien Martian life form. As interesting as it sounds, the premise hits some serious stumbling blocks on its way to becoming the tension-filled ...
Children like games. We all know this to be true. Sometimes; however, they never want the games to end. Eleanor (Savannah Liles in a standout performance), the child prodigy at the center of this science fiction film, keeps playing one for her life and the pieces on the board in ...
British filmmaker Rupert Sanders (Snow White and the Huntsman) really wants audiences to consider his version of Ghost in the Shell as equivalent to the mighty rush and crush of Replicants in Blade Runner. With cityscape visuals as striking as the ones in his movie, it’s ...
Nobody likes going to weddings. Pretentious, stodgy, and full of uncomfortable encounters with people we don’t even know – nor particularly care about, weddings are a necessary evil that often augment creepy 40-year-old Uncle Bob’s fantasies by encouraging him ...
It has been well known for some time that Hugh Jackman is leaving his career making turn as the X-Men character Wolverine behind. After seventeen years regimenting his diet and sculpting a rather impressive super hero physique, he set to task with director James Mangold (the ...
The monsters are coming! The monsters are coming! The monsters are coming!!! Hooray for the longevity of the B-movie! I am overjoyed to report back to you all that Kong: Skull Island recaptures most of the freewheeling celluloid fun that has been missing from the countless ...
Cheap to make and exceedingly appealing to the hordes of theater-going teens, young adult novel-to-big-screen adaptions are a financial no-brainer in Hollywood these days. And with the requisite safe and familiar themes meant to reassure teen audiences that the horrors ...
Let's first have the discussion about the 500-lb gorilla in the room. He's siting right over there between "big box office money" and "who cares?" Of course, I'm speaking of the controversy swirling around the appearance of a very white man (in the form of actor Matt Damon) ...
E.L. James fans just couldn't keep the allure of mainstream theatrical S&M inside their pants when the big screen debut of the first chapter in the author's Fifty Shades novel trilogy, Fifty Shades of Grey hit theaters back in 2015. They set trailer view records with over 114 ...