You know there’s going to be an issue with a movie, set on California’s west coast during the drugged-out ex-hippie year of 1970, when Benicio del Toro is playing the one and only straight man. Playing for normal, you know, isn’t exactly his forte. Maybe this wouldn’t be a problem ...
Wanna get devastated? And I mean heartbroken to the nth degree, completely unable to crawl to the fridge for another beer. If so, then Tommy Lee Jones has the movie for you this holiday season. The Homesman, based on Glendon Swarthout’s 1988 novel, is a harrowing ...
When Ivan Locke – played by Tom Hardy – leaves work for the evening, he has a job he’s insanely good at, a welcoming home, and a happy family that is eagerly awaiting his arrival. By the time he gets to his destination, he has nothing. No one is killed. No one is kidnapped ...
Katniss Everdeen will indeed go down as one of the most influential teenage literary characters of our time. Safe to say that Harry Potter still tops that list. A disclaimer first, as to say that I have not to this point, read any of Suzanne Collin’s Hunger Games trilogy of novels, ...
Redefining the slow burn, Los Angeles-filmmaker Blake Robbins takes audiences on a heart-wrenching journey through loss and grief as one family struggles after the death of their three children and the results are stunningly authentic. Robbins - who directs, produces ...
Jon Stewart, the darling of late night political satire, dips his toes into the world of filmmaking with his brilliant screenwriting and directorial debut of Rosewater, a story he adapts from journalist Maziar Bahari’s memoir titled Then They Came for Me. Many may recall the ...
It will more than likely go down as the crown prince of sequels that should have never been made. Twenty years is waaaay too long to stay loyal to two rubber-faced morons charging their way through one odd social interaction to the next. Dumb and Dumber To is adequately ...
Writer/director John Michael McDonagh returns with a vengeance in Calvary, a dark comedy that expertly juggles the sacred with the profane. The film takes its name from the hill where Jesus was crucified and, yes, it deals with sacrifice as one priest knowingly faces life ...
As the celebrated love-child of the newly consummated coupling by Disney and Marvel studios, Big Hero 6 is, as expected, an action-packed superhero movie. But, surprisingly, the superhero parts of the story are the least enjoyable and keep the whole thing from achieving ...
People of a certain age may recall having read Judith Viorst’s award-winning 1972 children’s book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. And if you are one of those acquainted with its humorous anecdotes, you are probably wondering how the ...
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