Being based here in Los Angeles I often feel like this city is never ending with fun things to do. Every year though Universal Studios tends to be my favorite event of the year. Universal Studios becomes Halloween Horror Nights. The park creates anywhere from 5-7 haunted house horror mazes a year for you to…
Brain appétit! The first season of iZombie arrives on DVD October 17. The new hit series stars Rose McIver (Once Upon a Time, Masters of Sex), Malcolm Goodwin (Breakout Kings), Rahul Kohli (Eastenders), Robert Buckley (One Tree Hill) and David Anders (Once Upon a Time, The Vampire Diaries). The 3-disc DVD set includes all…
I’m a huge fan of Adrian Lyne’s sexy, stylish, and provocative work in general, and Unfaithful is easily one of his best films, filled with probing psychological underpinnings and juicy star turns from Richard Gere and Diane Lane, who likely delivered career topping work with her simmering and extremely erotic performance as a suburban housewife…
Unbreakable is easily my favorite film from writer/director M. Night Shyamalan, who has had, without a doubt, one of the most fascinating, frustrating, and fantastic careers that any filmmaker has ever had. After taking the world by storm in the late summer of 1999 with his superb ghost movie, The Sixth Sense, he unleashed his…
Bulworth remains just as funny and incisive now as it did back in 1998 when it scorched movie screens. Directed with verve by Warren Beatty and co-written with obscene ferocity by Beatty and Jeremy Pikser, the film stings with blunt truth, outlandish yet cogent satire, and an eerily prescient vibe that feels more and more…
John Lithgow and Alfred Molina deliver wonderful, sensitively attuned performances in Ira Sachs’ warmhearted drama Love is Strange. Portraying an older gay couple living in a gorgeous NYC apartment when they’re suddenly and unexpectedly forced to move out, the film takes a simple and observant look at the lives of these two dapper, eccentric, and…
Few movies have frightened me more in the theater than Fire in the Sky. I was 13 years old when my dad took me to see this incredible alien abduction film, and we went opening night because I was so excited that an alien movie was coming out on the big screen. My fascination with…
The Accountant is exactly the sort of movie that has been in short supply of late — an old school, high concept, totally slick star vehicle with a ridiculous yet extremely entertaining plot that’s just as fun as it is far-fetched. The spec script market seems to be dead, with nearly every film based on…
The Siege of Jadotville, a new Netflix original film, is one of those square-jawed military actioners that used to get released in the 60’s and 70’s, unpretentious and ass-kicking, centering on a true story, and adding appropriate dashes of Hollywood flash while never sacrificing any of the gritty integrity that the material promises. Impressively directed…
Louis Theroux talks on his first ever feature film ‘My Scientology Movie’ and reveals why he thinks Scientology is so secretive, which aspect of Scientology he finds most fascinating and what he thinks sets Scientology apart from other religions. Why a film and not TV like your usual projects? “The nature of Scientology as a…
John Carney’s Sing Street is a wonderful movie for 98% of its run-time. The performances are confident, the romance is genuinely sweet, the music is catchy, and as usual, Carney’s ability to weave a music-themed plot in with distinctive character work yields some absolutely fantastic scenes. And then, inexplicably, during the last few minutes, the…
To say that I’m a fan of the visceral filmmaking aesthetic of director Paul Greengrass would be a massive understatement. I think he’s a genius, and he’s one of my absolute favorite directors. From the stunningly realized recreations of real-world tragedies as depicted in masterpieces like Bloody Sunday and United 93 to his fantastic studio-based…
New research from ODEON has today revealed the top 20 big screen animals Brits would most want as their household pets, with much-loved Lassie coming out on top. The infamous long-haired pooch was followed closely by Nemo the Fish (18 per cent). Top Cat edged into third place (14 per cent), with lovable deer Bambi,…
Antoine Fuqua’s solid updating of The Magnificent Seven is a good time at the movies, an easily digestible modern Western that isn’t interested in anything else other than providing two hours of comfortable, great-looking entertainment. Denzel Washington is excellent, as usual, and leads a very sturdy ensemble cast, with Ethan Hawke, Chris Pratt, and a…
Other than the misleading title which suggests some sort of revisionist feminist twist on the old west milieu which never comes to pass, I’m not so sure what the problem was with Jane Got A Gun. This is that supposedly “bad” outlaw revenger that came and went this past winter, getting beat up by “critics”…
Following on from the Skype Horror film Unfriended comes another social media scarefest with Friend Request. The story follows Laura, a popular girl at school who’s life is posted to social media until one day she has a friend request from the school outcast. Said school outcast gets jealous when she isn’t invited to the…
