Backcountry is a well-acted film with a familiar premis
Foxcatcher chronicles the tragic partnership of multi-m
Hell hath no fury like a fairy whose wings have been
To anyone coming of age in the 1990s, Alicia Silverstone will always be best remembered for her turn as Cher is Amy Heckerling’s eerily timeless Clueless. However, Silverstone’s role as Tammy in William Robert Carey’s new film Angels in Stardust will give pause to those of us with nostalgic inclinations toward Cher as we first witness Silverstone’s […]
Nebraska Booze-addled father Determined to keep walking Follows many people. Gravity White-knuckle journey. Catapulted forever Home so far removed. 12 Years a Slave Spotlight cast under The floorboards of history. Our culture of trade. American Hustle Post-Watergate years Shape American culture, Breed paranoia. The Wolf of Wall Street Scarface meets Wall Street; Spring […]
Surely, there are moments in Airplane! (1980) that would confuse anyone not alive in the 1980’s. Today of course, smoking is prohibited on planes – and most everywhere else – the lax, simple security screeners went away thirteen years ago, food without an extortionate price tag is no longer served on flights. Most noticeably, the films form […]
The Croods explores the impeding power of fear and the darkest parts of evolution.
The first five minutes of Lone Survivor feels like an advertisement for the Navy. The film opens with the training of Navy SEALS. With each one that rings the bell three times and quits, another perseveres and harnesses their freezing, shaking, breaking down bodies into an unconscious aggression. Peter Berg brings his familiar Friday Night Lights style […]
Desolation of Smaug will become the most memorable chapter, but this doesn’t make it any more substantial than the first.
“It’s new and it never gets old,” Llewyn Davis tells the audience twice in the Coen brothers’ emotionaly powerful new film, Inside Llewyn Davis. Set in 1961 Greenwhich Village, the film follows one week in the life of Llewyn Davis, a nomadic folk singer who must routinely way his need for money against his refusal to abandon […]
Enough Said honestly depicts the evolution of marriage, divorce, and the aftermath.
Paul Walker’s role in Hours is a departure from the most familiar Brian O’Conner that occupies the various Fast-speckled franchise. As Nolan Hayes, he is asked to find a deeper emotional peril as a husband who has recently lost his wife and a father who is on the verge of losing his prematurely-born daughter in the wake […]
First and foremost, Blackfish, the 2013 documentary from Gabriela Cowperthwaite, makes me regret visiting Sea World when I was nine years old. More importantly as a documentary, Blackfish exposes a large tourist attraction as little more than a shady zoo for aquatic life and humans alike. Orca whales are the main attraction in both the documentary Sea World. In particular, […]
