The Art of Self Defense Review you are about to read needs prior preparation. Nick Clement claims this movie to be the funniest of 2019. Take a look at the review below and let us know if you agree. Here we go! The Art of Self Defense Review The Art of Self Defense is easily…
The Square, a movie Tautly directed by Nash Edgerton (his brother Joel is one of the main characters and co-wrote the brilliantly layered screenplay), this shady and shifty neo-noir sits atop of the genre pack with titles such as Red Rock West, The Last Seduction, Blood Simple, and Bound – it’s a damn near flawless…
Hell Fest is a theme park slasher that oozes 80’s classic vibes and delivers in most areas for quite a unique and entertaining picture. Focusing on people’s fascinations with haunted attractions Hell Fest is a horror theme park packed full of mazes and scares. But a killer is on the loose disguised as a scare…
We review Shaft as Tim Story explores three generations of Shafts in this latest hilarious 2019 instalment. Not taking anything too seriously Shaft seems to toy with letting Samuel L. Jackson go on a free comedic reign to fully express himself in every delivery of the word ‘mother f**ker’. It’s hilarious to me that no…
Directed and co-edited by Joe Zappa from a script he co-wrote with Sahil Sharma and co-editor Kip Bennett, the multi-character drama 75 explores Cincinnati’s devastating heroin epidemic in an unflinching manner, resulting in a very urgent, very emotionally resonant film. Pivoting on the lives of a car-crash victim, a housewife, and two teenagers who are…
S. Craig Zahler’s latest film plays like a perverse and transgressive opera of an almost forgotten world that cascades into a fierce and harrowing antiheroes journey. Pride, honor, and sacrifice propels the trio of main characters forward, all colored in with just enough development that leaves mystery and intrigue as to remind the audience that…
Absolutely wild stuff. I’m no major mark for horror movies, and I’m not sure I fully “got” each plot development as it naturally unfolded, but Luca Guadagnino’s ultra-stylish re-imagining of Dario Argento’s iconic horror film Suspiria is a bloody blast of surreal and creepy imagery. It also serves as a fully-loaded thematic exploration of motherhood,…
Vice, the spectacular new film from writer/director Adam McKay, is such a sucker-punch that you can feel the sly presence of everyone involved who collaborated on this motion picture, in every frame. It’s big, it’s sprawling, it’s wickedly clever, and it’s extremely funny. But, what’s most disturbing is that at no point should you ever…
Sylvester Stallone has lived a dual life in 2018. He gave us Creed II while also completing filming on Rambo: The Last Blood, but he also has starred in a few direct to VOD flicks. The first, Escape Plan 2, was a monumental disappointment, especially for those who enjoyed the first film, and his latest,…
I’m always intrigued by the prospect of a new film from Gus Van Sant, and his darkly comedic 2018 indie Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot is a further reminder of how natural and versatile he is as a storyteller. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, the film is based on the life of John Callahan,…
While certainly a good movie, I was a bit disappointed in Beautiful Boy, from director Felix Van Groeningen, who co-wrote the script with Luke Davies, and which serves as a dual-adaptation of two memoirs, written by the father and son portrayed by Steve Carell and Timothee Chalamet, who both delivered strong performances. The film centers…
It’s very rare that I exit a cinema screening truly moved by the film I have just watched. A Star is Born suckered me in with thinking that it was just going to be your ‘run of the mill’ romance story and then obliterated that idea within seconds. Bradley Cooper stars and directs this epic…
Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled is a ravishing film to look at, and I’m not surprised that she won Best Director at Cannes. This is a Cannes movie if there ever was one, and on a production/aesthetic level, it’s one of the richest pieces I’ve seen this year. I’d have to assume that the utterly stunning…
Tonight’s feature presentation is To Live and Die in L.A., which is most likely the best Michael Mann film that Mann didn’t actually direct. Yes, the film certainly shows some trademarks of its legendary director, William Friedkin (Sorcerer, The French Connection), but there’s a general ambiance and sense of style that feels cut from Mann’s…
This is a shamelessly entertaining film with lots of heart and a tone that bounces all over the place. Gregory Hoblit’s underrated 2000 genre-bender Frequency was a modest hit with critics and audiences at the time of its release, and while it’s hardly a great movie, it’s so much fun to watch, and it stands…
Straight Outta Compton is robust, vital entertainment, painting a vivid tapestry of one of the most turbulent periods of modern societal unrest, and telling an oversized, extremely engrossing tale that’s distinctly American and part of the greater cultural shift over the last 20 years. In a field of 10 potential nominees, even if I felt…
