The Giver is the latest entry in a series of young adult book-to-film adaptations. The original 1993 book has a good reputation and it’s clear that later titles like Divergent have borrowed elements of its story. Yet even if the…
Dark comedies don’t come much more pitch black than Calvary, the new film that re-teams actor Brendan Gleeson with director John Michael McDonagh (The Guard). Like their previous collaboration, in between some off-color humor there’s some thoughtful rumination on mortality…
I’m going to tell you what you already know. There is only one thing that The Expendables 3 has going for it and it ain’t a smart script. It’s the cast. That is the only element that makes this project…
Often, foreign movies are perceived strictly as arthouse fare, filled with heavy and ponderous themes. However, there’s just as much variety in world cinema as there is anywhere else. The Norwegian film Ragnarok screams old-fashioned Saturday matinee adventure from its…
Disaster movies often have a difficult task merging human drama with grand spectacle. Into the Storm is no exception to the rule. The movie certainly delivers a few great visuals and impressive special effects. It’s just too bad that while…
Instead of bringing back some beloved childhood characters from the late 80’s and early 90’s the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie is more like “The Return of Megan Fox”. This is very unfortunate as she was not missed. After…
Who the hell are the Guardians of the Galaxy? I’m a minor comic book nerd having collected a bunch of Batman and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles back in the late 80’s and early 90’s. I had some Avengers comics and…
The latest from writer/director Woody Allen is a left turn of sorts from his previous effort, Blue Jasmine. Magic in the Moonlight drops the heavy subject matter of that picture for a lighter tone. This is a subtle and low-key…
Mood Indigo playing an exclusive engagement in San Diego at the Ken Cinema. Details HERE Michel Gondry’s filmmaking has developed two distinct trajectories. Unfortunately these two paths are mutually exclusive and growing farther and farther apart as time passes. First,…
French director Luc Besson is famous for bringing fantastical and stylized action films to the screen, most notably in titles like The Fifth Element, Leon and La Femme Nikita. His latest, Lucy, shares several commonalities with those earlier movies (Nikita…