Watching Selma evoked many thoughts, one of the strongest being that I am an uneducated dolt with the intelligence of a well-crafted leather shoe. I should know this story. The great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his cause descending…
There is not one possibility that I will be the only one to refer to the new P.T. Anderson as Incoherent Vice instead of its proper title. But I’m going to start with that regardless because viewing the film had…
With a late December release and notable cast, there’s a lot of Oscar buzz last month surrounding the latest film from director Tim Burton (Frankenweenie, Big Fish, Ed Wood). Sometimes this a good thing, but occasionally it can mislead viewers.…
It’s been five years since the last title in the series, but that hasn’t stopped Hollywood from going to the sequel well once more – this time with Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb. The concept of this…
It’s been a long road, but The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies finally marks the end of any more foreseeable Tolkien filmic adaptations. While The Lord of the Rings trilogy enraptured audiences, The Hobbit series hasn’t quite grabbed…
I’ll be brutally honest before beginning this review… I’m not a religious man. That’s not to say that I can’t enjoy a well made Biblical epic now and again. In fact, it seems like there’s been something of a renaissance…
Once again, Hollywood has taken to chopping one film into two halves. In this case, it’s The Hunger Games: Mockingjaw that has been given the split. This approach is often troublesome, particularly in finding a dramatic climax for a movie…
Sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction. Exemplifying this notion yet again is Foxcatcher, the latest film from director Bennett Miller (Capote, Moneyball). Like his previous efforts, this is another biopic based on real people. However, this story is much…
If you loved Dumb and Dumber then you going to like Dumb and Dumber To. How’s that for a tagline? And while it doesn’t ring high praise, it’s probably true. Given that an unforgiving 20 year length of time has…
A word of warning to fans of Stephen Hawking. Despite its title, The Theory of Everything isn’t a film about the physicist’s theories on black holes or the beginnings of the universe. Rather, it’s a love story about the famous…