Who is H.R. Giger? First thing that pops into most people’s minds is that he’s the guy that designed the alien from Alien. He’s worked on other films (Species, Poltergeist II) but that is the big one. Some people may…
Note: The following review is written by someone who does not read pastoral romance novels from the 1870s very often and is so ignorant that for a brief moment I thought the novel Far from the Maddening Crowd was written by…
Here’s a rather unfortunate situation. While every cast member of the new comedy Hot Pursuit is funny, the end result is a mediocre collection of hit-and-miss gags. It delivers a few chuckles during its short running time, but is the…
Sometimes a Grand Jury Prize nomination at Sundance can actually play against a movie. The D Train earned attention and garnered strong reviews at the film festival, generating plenty of buzz. It’s certainly a noble attempt that has some curious…
You will no doubt find Avengers Age of Ultron delivers the rush and rampage of a typical mega-massive-blockbuster. This is celluloid that is stuffed with stupendous spectacle, every second of action obviously costing millions of dollars to render and will…
The last six months have offered some curious and self-reflective takes on actors in films like Birdman. Clouds of Sils Maria feels like a distinctly French version of the subject matter. While the approach is far less fantastical than last…
Well, I’ll be the first to admit it. I’m not the target demographic for this weepy melodrama about a woman who can’t age and lives a lonely, solitary life in order to hide from its complications. While the concept has…
These days, the concept of artificial intelligence and its disturbing complications have become commonplace in many science-fiction projects. We’ve seen it explored most recently in films like Transcendence and we’ll see it again in next week’s Avengers sequel. However, it…
Real life stories can be difficult to translate to fictional films. Sometimes they don’t exactly fit into a three act story with a beginning, middle and end. True Story actually has all of the elements and some interesting sidelines of…
Unfriended… the title doesn’t exactly send shivers down the spine. And call me a ghost story purist, but I find it difficult to get truly frightened over a Skype conversation with a malevolent spirit. Or a deceased person using their…