What would a site called Back to the Movies be without the odd nod to the inspiration behind the name? The beloved Back to the Future. As a movie prop collector I’ve always wanted to own a screen-used Almanac from the film but I always seem to either miss them or watch as the prices…
Director Peter Berg had a banner year in 2016. He first released his disaster movie epic Deepwater Horizon in September, and most recently, his late December release, the Boston Marathon bombing drama has gone into nationwide expansion in the states with a worldwide release to follow. Tobias A. Schliessler’s outstanding and highly visceral…
Let’s Be Evil is a futuristic sci-fi horror flick that focuses heavily on children’s addiction to technology, twisted on it’s head with a bit of Children of the Corn Style. It looks great, it contains great acting and small glimpses of the capabilities of AR technology but falls hard in terms of story, dragging out…
ADULT BABIES gets an exclusive reveal at Horror Channel FrightFest Glasgow 2017. The film’s creator, actress / producer Joanne Mitchell, star of BEFORE DAWN & BAIT answers 10 scary questions When did your fascination for horror films begin? I’ve been interested in horror since being a young kid. I liked to be frightened, whether it…
Denzel Washington delivers a volcanic performance in his latest directorial effort, Fences, while the magnificent Viola Davis counters with her own blistering piece of internalized acting; the two artists literally explode off of the screen. Efficiently directed by Washington, the film was adapted for the screen by playwright August Wilson, whose original, Pulitzer-winning effort was…
White Bird in a Blizzard is something unique – a touching coming of age story, a tense and unpredictable whodunit with a dynamite final twist, a study of marital discord, and a time capsule back to the late 80’s, all of it filtered through some surrealistic touches and flights of fancy for good artistic measure….
AVAILABLE TO OWN ON BLU-RAY™ AND DVD FROM 23RD JANUARY AND DIGITAL DOWNLOAD FROM 9TH JANUARY Based on the book by Robert Mazur, a U.S. Customs special agent, who in the 1980s helped bust Pablo Escobar’s money-laundering organisation by going undercover as a corrupt businessman, THE INFILTRATOR is a stylish thriller that looks in to one…
Uninterested in being a straightforward biopic and all the more enjoyable because of that fact, Don Cheadle’s impressionistic and time-jumping portrait of iconic jazz artist Miles Davis, appropriately titled Miles Ahead (the title of his 1957 album), is a celebration of its subject while still presenting a warts and all narrative that focuses on the…
The Force Awakens, a film that was a complete re-hash of a certain older Star Wars movie, repackaged with a few new faces and some Disney charm had audiences across the world (for the most part) fall for it hook line and sinker. The Star Wars brand once again removing the common sense from our…
The DeLorean Time Machine is the most iconic car in movie history but over the years the car itself was on the verge of heading to the scrapyard after decades of harsh weather, manhandling and souvenir hunters taking bits and pieces along the way. Back to the Future writer / producer Bob Gale, Universal Studios…
The Big Lebowski is a favorite comedy for so many people because it speaks to everyone’s inner “Dude,” and it balances various forms of comedy – physical, verbal, visual, spiritual, existential – in a way that few other films have successfully pulled off. This was the last movie I think anyone would have expected from…
It’s a miracle that this movie ever got made, especially when considering it was released in 1998. Dark City is Alex Proyas’ masterwork as a filmmaker, a concoction so startling and unique which has helped to set it apart from so many other genre efforts from throughout the years. So few films are allowed…
The 2004 sports drama Miracle craftily and persuasively recreated the famous United States vs. Soviet Union hockey game where the Americans pulled one of the greatest upsets in Olympic history, beating their heavily favored opponents in the medal round, which would send Team USA to collect a rather unexpected gold medal. Kurt Russell delivered one…
La La Land is a giant burst of primary color fun, a widescreen musical that marries romantic comedy with aspirational drama, and if it’s not quite the movie I was expecting overall, it’s certainly a bold and memorable motion picture. Writer/director Damien Chazelle, working in a totally different tempo than his previous film, the razor-sharp…
I can’t believe that Bad Santa (or Badder Santa, whatever version you prefer) is almost 15 years old. It’s one of the funniest films that I’ve ever seen. It never gets old. It only gets funnier with each viewing. There’s a diseased sense of misanthropy running through the rotted heart of this cheerfully vulgar film,…
Manchester by the Sea is everything you have heard it to be and more. The backflips done by critics are totally warranted, and while this won’t be a film that everyone will appreciate, for this viewer, it represents the finest that storytelling can offer, and a complete confirmation that its writer/director, Kenneth Lonergan, is the…
