It’s possible to be interesting, yet somewhat pointless all at the same time. New on DVD and Blu-Ray tomorrow, Eli Roth’s History of Horror Season 1 manages to be very accessible to the general audiences with just enough interesting insight to keep the experts and fans out there engaged. Award winning horror film director, writer, […]
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Cowboys isn’t just about the kidnapping of a child. There’s enough big picture here to show how its fictional but believable version of Montana treats its supporting characters. One such character is Faith (Ann Down), the local policewoman investigating the kidnapping. She’s diligent enough in tracing the steps of the kidnapper, Troy Johnson (Steve Zahn). […]
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Gloria Steinem’s life is anything but conventional. This makes capturing her life in a biographical film a hard task. Julie Taymor seems to be up to that task with results I’m still struggling with. Even though thankfully, it has her trademark weirdness, as it jumps between different parts of Steinem’s long life. Either way, Taymor […]
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There’s nothing quite as complicated as family… It’s hard to “look forward” to things these days with the uncertainties at the theatrical level but this one certainly qualifies. On The Rocks reunites Writer/Director Sofia Coppola and Bill Murray for yet another insightful look down the road of relationships that lets their obvious chemistry crackle just […]
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Let’s be serious. When the end of the world happens, you’ll probably hear about it on Twitter first. At a time when we get all of our news from our social threads, it’s fair to say that the way that we relate to one another has changed, though not necessarily for the better. Chatting through […]
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Gentrification is the worst…except… It only makes sense that one of the biggest problems facing so many city centers today would turn into a horror movie. What is surprising though, that in spite of a basic and fairly terrible title, Vampires vs. The Bronx is a fun horror romp reminiscent of some of the classics […]
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Eddie (Fionn O’Shea) and Amber (Lola Petticrew) are both gay teenagers, obviously. Growing up in the closet is as tough enough as it is, but it’s much worse going through that during the 90s in rural Ireland. So Amber proposed that she and Eddie pretend to be each other’s beards. This light comedy, then, is a […]
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I went into this one blind. I didn’t know who Bert Trautmann was. And as I settled in for this film, it struck me as a run of the mill paint by numbers, Hallmark kind of romance film. A perfectly British concoction as predictable and comforting as a cup of tea. The second half of […]
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Kodi Smit-McPhee is all grown up and helming his first major film, the sci-fi thriller 2067. The film is set in the year 2067, when earth is on the verge of collapse. After years of doing too little to reverse climate change, plant life is extinct and there is a dramatic reduction in available oxygen. […]
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Darren Star creator of some of the most successful TV series in history is back with yet another gem. Emily in Paris, the upcoming romantic comedy series stars Lily Collins as Emily Cooper, an ambitious twenty-something marketing executive from Chicago. She unexpectedly lands her dream job in Paris when her company acquires a French luxury […]
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