More creative than it is philosophical (even though it really, really wants to be both), Tomorrowland’s future-bound trajectory resides inside an adventure that recalls the type of kid-against-adult “message” movies Walt Disney used to make every Easter when I was young ...
In an early scene of Andrew Niccol’s blistering critique of drone warfare titled Good Kill, Ethan Hawke’s character, Maj. Tom Egan, questions why he and his fellow military drone pilots wear flight suits. It’s a fair question since, rather than strapping into the cockpit of a ...
Produced and directed by Aaron K. Carter, Dead Kansas is the current darling of the underground zombie genre. The horror-comedy is as independently spirited as modern filmmaking gets. It’s raw, comically acted, and absolutely inventive in how it portrays the zombie ...
Nothing says pathetic loser quite like giving one’s self a cool nickname and hoping it sticks among friends. In what becomes somewhat of a running joke in The D Train, that’s exactly what Dan Landsman (Jack Black) does in his desperate attempts to overcome his lonely ...
Reese Witherspoon goes a mile-a-minute with a Texan drawl in an unfunny Hot Pursuit as Officer Cooper. Forgetting what made previous characters like Elle Woods and Tracy Flick so memorable, Witherspoon simply coasts here as the only female cop on the San Antonio ...
There’s an interesting premise buried somewhere beneath the rubble of the ramshackle story in The Age of Adaline, a film that tries very hard to be a powerful love story but is, instead, just a ridiculously contrived message film about, well, let’s see… about why it’s valuable to ...
As its name suggests, True Story is based on the real-life story about how disgraced New York Times reporter Michael Finkel (Jonah Hill) became involved with accused killer Christian Longo (James Franco) who murdered his entire family back in 2003. Too bad the film isn’t ...
The worlds of professional bull riding, modern art, World War II, and tough love become entangled in a sappy mess in The Longest Ride, the next Nicholas Sparks romantic drama novel to get the big screen treatment. With nine previous adaptations under his belt, the proliferative author ...
The off-kilter hit man. The three lines of plot to follow. The dark comedy. Kill Me Three Times is what happens when a gritty film noir tours Australia with Simon Pegg as its guide. Reminiscent of Blood Simple, director Kriv Stenders offers this ode of murder most ...
One of the year’s oddest Hollywood pairings pits Ryan Reynolds opposite Helen Mirren in Woman in Gold, the remarkable true story of a woman’s journey to rescue her heritage and obtain justice for her family’s mistreatment in the years leading up to World War II. ...
Page 97 of 114
