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…
Scream still stands tall as a milestone horror film and as a reminder of how clever and rewarding movies can be when written with supreme, genre-loving skill and directed with total finesse. I can remember seeing this film on opening weekend back in 1996 with some high school buddies, and we were probably the only…
The second season of Netflix’s fall flagship show, Stranger Things, does exactly what a sequel needs to do; it surpasses and exceeds the first season. The SAG-winning ensemble returns, meet new challenges, and once again saves the world. The Carpenter-esque score is back, as loud and haunting as ever, and a plethora of seminal 80s…
Back in 2004 Saw was unleashed to the world courtesy of James Wan and Leigh Whannel. A horror franchise so unique that it captivated many and birthed the torture porn genre. Thirteen wonderful years later and seven glorious films later the most profitable franchise of all time returns. Jigsaw is his name and he’s back…
Joseph Kosinski’s heroically sad film Only the Brave tells the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a group of firemen working in Prescott, Arizona who died in the tragic Yarnell Hill blaze in 2013; out of the 20 man crew, there was only one survivor. Written with intelligence, dignity, and macho-swagger by Ken Nolan…
I absolutely loved The Meyerowitz Stories, but this doesn’t surprise me, as I’m obsessed with all of the movies that writer/director Noah Baumbach has been responsible for, with personal favourites including The Squid and the Whale, Greenberg, and While We’re Young. He’s an auteur in the truest sense of the word; all of his films…
