Sometimes life is truly stranger than fiction. Love & Mercy depicts the odd and at time almost unbelievable story of The Beach Boys band member Brain Wilson. Those who enjoy the group will undoubtedly love the film. Yet even those…
It’s true. You do not need to have watched the HBO cult show Entourage to be able to enjoy the film version of Entourage. This is not a guess or an assumption as I never watched a single episode out…
Disaster films are a tricky business. The spectacle of nature wreaking havoc is always eye-catching, but most movies fail to compensate for the epic scale, resorting to a generic story with too many thinly drawn characters. San Andreas definitely falls…
Romantic comedies often live and die by the chemistry between the main characters. Sadly, there isn’t a whole lot of spark in Aloha. It’s a laid back effort from normally reliable director Cameron Crowe (Say Anything, Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous)…
Truthfully, your reaction to the latest Poltergeist reboot will largely depend on how much reverence you have for the original. The 1982 ghost story was a high profile spectacle produced with big special effects flourishes typical for a Steven Spielberg…
Frankly, I doubt that Disney’s Tomorrowland has ever struck anyone as the perfect jumping off point for a movie. A ride like Space Mountain certainly makes sense, but a project about the plaza on which it’s located…? The Tomorrowland movie…
This is a movie that strains at the leash of the possible, a movie of great visionary wonders. I did not write that line to describe Mad Max: Fury Road. Roger Ebert finished his review for Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome…
Well, it’s hard to imagine another action film of this or any year in recent memory topping the adrenaline-pumping, motor-charged, post-apocalyptic world of Mad Max: Fury Road. Some 30 years after the last movie featuring the character, everything has been…
Personally, I can’t say that musical comedies would qualify as a favorite genre. Yet, the original Pitch Perfect was a very pleasant surprise. It featured an unusual premise and garnered plenty of laughs from poking fun at and embracing both…
With hundreds of movies coming out of the big studios every year, it can be easy to forget that there are even more filmmakers starting out or plying their trade on short form films. The Cobblestone Corridor is one such…