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…
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…