Richard Linklater spent 12 years shooting his coming-of-age feature Boyhood, all of it chronologically and in real time. It was a great experiment, but after witnessing the new drama Moonlight, it certainly doesn’t seem like that approach was the only…
It’s been, umm, awhile since we’ve seen a high profile Mel Gibson picture. His latest marks the first time the star has returned behind the camera as director in ten years (his last stint was on the impressively gonzo Mayan…
Frankly, the latest flick in the unending series of Marvel Studios superheroes has no business working at all. Doctor Strange is essentially a movie depicting a war between good and evil wizards. One group wants to allow a malevolent, world-destroying…
It has been seven years since we last saw author Dan Brown’s puzzle-solving professor on the big screen, in the less-than-thrilling thriller Angels and Demons. I can safely say that the time away hasn’t done the series any favors. This…
To be honest, I wasn’t that big a fan of Tom Cruise’s first foray as Jack Reacher, a tough-as-nails ex-Major who can’t help but find trouble wherever he wanders. Frankly, I can’t remember much about that movie, other than some…
Some art films present a “slice of life”. An unfiltered look at the world that avoids the tropes of the Hollywood movie. People get up every day, go to work and buy groceries. Very rarely are superheroes or giant robots…
Once again, what is funny to some is certainly not to others. A couple of weeks back I saw a Zach Galifianakis comedy that I got a kick of out… it was strange, surreal and brought a smile to my…
I wonder who exactly thought that it would be a grand idea to title an action/thriller picture The Accountant? Heck, even something as unexceptional as The Reckoning would be slightly snappier (and is a bookkeeping term to boot). The chosen…
Right off of the bat, I’ll admit that I haven’t read the hugely popular 2015 book upon which this week’s high profile movie release is based. I went in cold, knowing almost nothing about the story or what it entailed.…
Mr. Tim Burton has been pissing me off for years now. It’s not the hair. Or the sad fact that he left the (assumingly) lovely Helena. My anger jumped up to seeth level at the mention of his stupid, dumb…