What a nice surprised it was earlier this week when I was invited to see a very early screening of The Disaster Artist starring James and Dave Franco. A movie spoof representation of the best, worst movie of all time The Room. A film that has gained a cult following over the years for it’s…
Netflix continues to reign in with an embarrassment of riches when it comes to their exclusive programming, their latest is Andy and Jim: The Great Beyond which is an incredibly candid and raw retrospective interview with Jim Carrey discussing work on Man on the Moon where he played his hero Andy Kaufman. The film cuts…
Feeling more relevant than ever, Abel Ferrara’s vivacious and scandalous film Welcome to New York possesses an intense sexual energy that’s largely been absent from movies in recent years. Yes, sex is constantly on display in the movies, but this film resonates with a fierceness that feels exciting and troubling all at once. It plays…
Fresh off of the blatantly transgressive Nightcrawler, Dan Gilroy delivers his next feature, Roman J. Israel, Esq., that walks a similar dark path as his previous film but doesn’t quite get there; including stellar performances from Denzel Washington in the title role, Carmen Ejogo, and a remarkable turn from Colin Farrell; the films irregular narrative…
Unlike the sea of critics out there forever comparing movies to current worldly issues, views, opinions and all that other rubbish. It’s with great pleasure that I’m still able to go to a film and enjoy it for what it is. A movie. Thankfully it’s not something I look too deep into when going into…
An unfortunate combination of customer dissatisfaction, managerial impotency and employee laziness has resulted in Cupid Carpets falling on hard times. As a result, Nigel (the firm’s desperate, but ultimately ineffectual, owner) is all-too-eager to take on any job that comes his way. So when he gets a call from an old country house, situated in…
Tonight’s feature presentation is Tony Scott’s Spy Game. Playing like an unofficial sequel to Three Days of the Condor in the same way that Enemy of the State feels separated at birth from The Conversation, Spy Game is a refreshingly adult and smart espionage tale, mixing slick action with just enough brains, but one that…
After years and years it finally happened; the Justice League has been assembled. Zack Snyder, with minute help from Joss Whedon, has birth a new generation of heroes onto the screen bringing a new and original vision that is a fast paced, exhilarating, and a kick ass thrill ride. The film is lean with a…
Kelly Reichardt’s films all have the same tone and atmosphere, whether she’s exploring two men walking, talking, and camping (the wonderful and incisive Old Joy), a spiritually lost woman and her beloved dog in rainy Oregon (Wendy & Lucy, still my favorite films of hers), the dangerous and dusty open range (Meek’s Cutoff, brilliant), or…
They finally did it! The Foreigner is exactly what I’ve been recently asking for – a crisp and clean action programmer with robust production values that has been designed solely to entertain. Honestly – THAT’S the sort of movie I want to see a few times a year – the lean, mean, and totally efficient…
Murder On The Orient Express is a near perfect cinematic explosion. Kenneth Branagh who directs and stars in the Agatha Christie classic assembles a film with a phenomenal ensemble, breathtaking set pieces, and an irregular narrative tempo. This film hits its mark and is an excellent example of modernizing a classic, yet staying true to…
Not in a million years did I ever think I would say that a Thor film would be on comedic par with Guardians of the Galaxy. Thor: Ragnarok is the third instalment of Thor’s cinematic universe flicks and with director Taika Waititi at the helm, they’ve just let him go crazy on this one and…
A portrait of a brilliant artistic mind but infused with something extremely personal and sad, The Secret Life of Lance Letscher is one of the more emotionally piercing studies of the tortured artist that I’ve come across, and is easily one of the most engrossing films I’ve seen so far in 2017. Directed with a…
Hisense is a brand of TV that I’d actually never heard of before until the time came to review this H49N5500 model. After some quick searching, it seems as thou this upcoming Chinese brand is really making it’s mark on the TV market producing budget range TV’s that don’t feel cheap in anyway shape or…
Surburbicon is a deranged, vile film, and I really enjoyed watching it! In order to get made in our cookie-cutter and grossly homogenized studio-dominated movie landscape, this fucked-up little piece of cinematic depravity could only have been independently produced (it was) by some major creative forces (it was), and while I have no doubt that…
Ah Goon, a film that you cannot merely review and be done with it. A film that stays with you no matter how many hockey games you try to watch without thinking about it. Setting itself aside from many sports comedy movies on a stage of it’s own and with Goon: The Last of the…
