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…
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…
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…
Regardless of what your stance is on mass data collection supervised by Uncle Sam, Oliver Stone’s engrossing political thriller Snowden raises some extremely provocative and timely questions about our right to privacy, the ever evolving war on terror, and how trustworthy our government has been and can be in the future in regards to these…
It’s too good to be true, the mere notion of what Captain Chesley Sullenberger did on that particular day in January 2009, but due in large part to pure movie magic, we’re now able to get a first-hand glimpse of the terror, confusion, heroism, and stroke of miracle that took place on the Hudson River….
Films like The Light Between Oceans are a tough and tricky task for some moviegoers, as pure, heartfelt, cinematic melodrama seems to be mostly out of fashion these days. I am not sure what some people were expecting from this visually lush, overtly sentimental, yet extremely dark film. While I would have preferred that this…
Hell or High Water is easily my second favorite movie of the year, not far behind the hard to classify gem Midnight Special. Of course Peter Berg produced (and was at one point attached to direct) this shit-kicking, dusty, Texas-set tale of brotherly love and bank robbing. It’s nothing revolutionary, but rather, underrated filmmaker David…
Afternoon Delight is a sweet little indie from 2013 that deserves more attention. Written and directed by Jill Soloway (Amazon’s award-winning series Transparent) and starring the always awesome Kathryn Hahn, this is an extremely funny, well observed, sexy comedy that hits all the proper notes of pathos and hilarity. Hahn’s wildly amusing and emotionally volatile…
Set five years after the events of “Sharknado 3,” a pulse device has been invented by a billionaire that are rendering sharknados a thing of the past, but once a sandstorm hits Las Vegas and tears through a brand new shark inhabited hotel, this leads to another shakrnado killing spree on our hands. So I’m…
We are back again with another hooligan film review but this time Greenway Entertainment have stepped up their game from Essex Boys: Law of Survival, as I Am Hooligan improves on many of the flaws that the previous movies had in spades. The story is simple. Justin, a young lad from a rough estate is…
Michael Bay is back. Potentially forever lost to giant toy movies (which certainly have all had their moments of gee-whiz visual insanity), he’s stepped up and made an uncompromising modern combat film with 13 Hours. Smartly avoiding any overt political specifying or sketchy speculation, Chuck Hogan’s battle-ready screenplay, based on Mitchell Zuckoff’s book, is all…
I wanna start out by saying that when the first “X-Men” film hit theaters I was only 10 years old. “X-Men” came before any Spider-Man, Hulk, or any other Avenger for that matter when it came to a theatrical movie. I remember seeing it on opening day, so excited. It was like I’d…
From the startling opening moments and continuing all throughout its entirely beguiling and metaphorical narrative, The Lobster presents us with another bizarre cinematic world from Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos (the Oscar nominated shock-fest Dogtooth and the funereal drama Alps), an emotional sadist who is constantly picking at his filmic subjects like itchy scabs, always trying…
Films like Married Life don’t come around very often. Ira Sachs’ genre bender was given a limited release in 2007 but I doubt many people are familiar with it, which is weird given its starry cast: Chris Cooper, Pierce Brosnan, Patricia Clarkson, and Rachel McAdams. A highly stylized cross of Todd Haynes’ superior Far From…
