Author Lawrence Block has written many a gritty crime novel, but Hollywood hasn’t had the best of luck bringing his work to the big screen. In fact, the track record has been downright disastrous. Tinseltown efforts have included the 1986…
Exclusive Engagement Opens Friday, September 19th Landmark’s La Jolla Village Cinemas My Old Lady has the special distinction of being a film that you can tell is based on a play. It happens more often than not when the stage…
I find that the more comprehensible Tom Hardy is in a movie, the more I like it. He has a tight-jawed drawl in Lawless and the film was mediocre. He talks through a drive-thru order box for the entirety of…
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Imagine being trapped and lost in catacombs hundreds of feet beneath the city. As Above/So Below exploits that fear well. It’s unfortunate that the narrative isn’t nearly as strong. There are definite cinematic skills on display and director John Erick…
The Trip to Italy provides Steve Coogan with another opportunity to return the best role of his career: Himself. Sure fans of BBC television may make an argument for Coogan’s alter ego, Alan Partridge, as his best character but for…
Here’s one of the more unusual ideas to come to movie screens in quite some time. Frank casts Michael Fassbender in a role that forces the actor’s face to be obscured beneath an enormous mask for the majority of the…
I thought I had such a solid way to start this review. But “best laid plans of mice and men…” I guess. See, I was going to begin by NOT focusing on the original Sin City (2005) directed by both…
Yet another page in the young-adult novel-to-film-adaptation turns in If I Stay. Simply put, this is the story a young cellist in a coma who has an out-of-body experience and gets to overhear her friends and family members express their…