Pixar, once the leader in the animated film industry, have been in something of a creative slump lately. While still boasting excellent technical merits, recent titles like Cars 3, Finding Dory and The Good Dinosaur haven’t exactly been earning raves…
The Irish animation company Cartoon Saloon has made a name for itself with features like the impressive The Secret of Kells (2009) and perhaps even more charming Song of the Sea (2015). Their latest, The Breadwinner, marks a bit of…
Let me be candid. I’m really having trouble with these DC films. Here’s my quick rundown as to why they’ve sucked. Marvel begins to just kill it back in 2008 with Iron Man and the like. Good movies and mass…
There is plenty to declare “AMAZING” about the new version of Murder on the Orient Express. That cast? Amazing!! What a wonderful group of incredibly talented actors. A hodgepodge of who’s who so very kind enough to assemble for us.…
Director Yorgos Lanthimos made a name for himself two years ago with his first English-language film, the surreal and bizarrely entertaining dark comedy, The Lobster. Say what you will about that polarizing movie, but it was completely unique and entirely…
The films of director Todd Haynes (Safe, Far From Heaven, Carol) are often filled with characters suffering from great internal strife and hardship. So much so that this reviewer had some trepidation for what the leads of his new feature…
You wanna have some fun? Just go crazy. Throw everything out the window and rock n’ roll!! Yes? Good. Then Thor: Ragnarok is your flick. Hit it up. You will not be letdown. The Superhero genre is a constant morph.…
George Clooney’s new film, Suburbicon, is based on a script that the Coen Brothers wrote and he wrote some of it too with his buddy. His buddy is Grant Heslov. Sorry. That did not come out proper. Too clunky. Let…
The second biopic to be released this week (along with Only the Brave) involves the creator of famous literary character Winnie the Pooh. Goodbye Christopher Robin chronicles the personal events in author Alan Milne’s life that led to the creation…
Wildfires are a terrifying force of nature and it takes great planning as well as immeasurable skill to bring one under control. The new biopic Only the Brave details the story of Prescott, Arizona’s Granite Mountain Hotshots, a team of…