War for the Planet of the Apes is Grade-A blockbuster filmmaking. I will forever judge and compare the CGI in every movie that I see moving forward against the FLAWLESS work done in this film. Seriously. What the hell? I couldn’t believe what I was watching. Everything about this movie works like gangbusters, from the…
You walk into a store and glance across the shelves of all the latest movie releases, both Blu Ray and DVD releases. New releases, old releases, remastered versions. But what if you don’t know a damn thing about movies? What if you choose a film purely based off its title but when you get home…
French short film Vesper tells the story of Marge Ofenbey. A woman who isolates herself in her own home after fleeing her sinister and manipulative husband. She asks her nephew Christian for help but there is more than meets the eye. What is Marge hiding and why is she so afraid of the stars? Agnes…
The thoroughly unnerving and slow-burn psychological drama Christine will almost certainly send a shiver down your spine, especially if you have no clue about the real events that inspired this deeply unsettling motion picture, which was directed with a continued sense of cinematic implacability by the sharp and extremely talented filmmaker Antonio Campos (Afterschool, Simon…
I’m a fan of all of the works from writer/director Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich, Her, Where the Wild Things Are), but the 2002 meta-comedy Adaptation is probably my favorite piece from idiosyncratic and deeply thought provoking cinematic voice. Written with his singular brand of existential dread and tack-sharp satire by Charlie Kaufman (Synecdoche, NY,…
1984’s The Last Starfighter, energetically directed by Nick Castle from a script written by Jonathan Betuel (MY SCIENCE PROJECT POWER!!!), was one of my favorite films as a little kid, and much to my surprise, it still holds up as an example of a solid, low-budget Star Wars/Star Trek rip off that knew how to…
Ghost Note revolves around Mallory (Alicia Underwood) who gets left behind at her grandma’s house while her parents jet off on a Hawaii vacation without her. The girl in question is your usual annoying teenager so I couldn’t blame her on-screen parents one bit for leaving the little madamn behind. In the early 1970’s, a…
Alien abductions have long been a staple of science-fiction stories, film and television. The idea of a mysterious light enveloping our homes and extracting us from our beds is a terrifying one, made more so by the underlying fear that the threat might not be science-fiction at all, but science-fact… New sci-fi horror Phoenix Forgotten…
Interstellar, Christopher Nolan’s visually astonishing and mind-bending science-fiction epic, is an overwhelming experience. At least it was for me when I saw it on an IMAX screen, and it continues to be every single time I pop in the Blu-ray or watch it on HBO. It’s a $165 million anti-blockbuster that was based on an…
WTF is your usual run of the mill cabin in the woods teen slasher movie. But I’m going to cut this one a whole chunk of slack. This movie is a low budget indie. A movie made on a shoe string budget, yet it looks like any other cabin in the woods style movie, studio…
The Men Who Stare At Goats will always make me laugh and I’ll always find this particular story extremely fascinating. Adapted by the smart screenwriter Peter Straughan (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Frank, The Debt, Our Brand is Crisis) from the brilliant book by gonzo-journalist and musician Jon Ronson, the film was directed by Grant Heslov,…
Tonight’s major motion picture is Ron Shelton’s Tin Cup, which is one of my absolute favorite romantic films ever made. But it’s more than a great romance – it’s a great sports movie, it’s a terrific buddy film, and most importantly, it’s a wonderful piece about human beings and all their persistent foibles and inconsistencies,…
In an interview with Mark S Allen, star Tom Holland and Director Jon Watts sit down to talk all things Spider-Man: Homecoming. Tom discusses how anytime he wore the suit people would clamber on him to get a feel of the suit. They both go on to discuss when they both found out about being…
You look at the title, say to yourself. Here’s that Sean Evans again promoting a sponsored post for another cinema chain. But wait. More fool you! I actually went to Vue on a random cinema trip and stumbled upon this luxury new addition and thought, I must cover this! Although I do prefer Vue to…
The official poster for Jigsaw, the eighth film in the Saw franchise from Lionsgate, has been released; and it simply, yet hauntingly states, “Become Jigsaw.” The poster, exclusively was featured by Joblo shows the eighth film in the Saw franchise from Lionsgate. I’m a huge fan of the Saw franchise as I keep telling you…
When the credits rolled it all made perfect sense. The film had six screenwriters. Six. Spider-Man: Homecoming is two films. The first story is an incredibly engaging story of class warfare; an examination of how the assembly of the Avengers created an even greater economic divide between the ruling class and the common people….
