Let’s hope Hasbro doesn’t get their hands on this concept. Estranged brothers come across the ancient titular video board game while dissolving their long-absent father’s video store, and its discovery helps to explain the old man’s disappearance while unlocking a few demons of its own. The opening credit swing through …
There is no such thing as a bad genre, just filmmakers quick to yolk science fiction with horror before proceeding to add an appreciable amount of gore that covers for their innate inability to tell a story without the special effects vital to keeping impressionable minds coming back for more. …
Aside from Drew Barrymore’s Greenpeace activist, there’s not an unselfish, trustworthy character to be found in this well-intentioned “save the whales” tale. It’s a kid pic, so the screenwriters wisely (unknowingly?) never allow personality and emotion to get in the way of the overriding message. A cast of familiar faces …
The drive-by shooting that opened the picture felt out of place, particularly in light of the campy irreverence that quickly followed. Relax. It was just director Jun Lana’s successful attempt to throw the audience off guard before taking us on a wild ride through the life of Dharna (Christian Bables), …
“What a thing is patriotism! We go for years not knowing we have it. Suddenly...it becomes life’s greatest emotion.” The words ring as true today as when they did when they were written, over 90 years ago. Assigned to a title card, the sentiment opens King Vidor’s 1925 epic silent. …
Scott Marks is back!
The term “I don’t understand” is spoken numerous times throughout the film. That’s not counting audience members. Come equipped with a sophisticated understanding of the banking collapse of the mid-2000s and you’ll be hanging on every word. For those who invest in cinema and wouldn’t know a housing bubble from …
In burying her mother, small town pharmacist and 40-year-old spinster Ave Maria Mulligan (Ashley Judd), unearths a scandalous family secret. The brief documentary history of the titular Virginia town that opens novelist and first-time director Adriana Trigiani’s undoubting romantic comedy suggested something more than another serving of Fried Green Magnolias. …
Not Michael Bay’s latest Transformers installment, but Swedish documentarian Fredrik Gertten’s heartfelt plea for drivers to share the road with cyclists — or, better yet, do away with oil-burning autos altogether. From São Paulo and Toronto to Los Angeles and the ultimate bicycle-friendly city, Copenhagen, Gertten takes us to the …
The United Arab Emirates finally got around to discovering CG animation and after sitting on the shelf since 2015, Bilal is ready for the world to take notice. On the plus side, the background layouts are exquisite, as are the strikingly detailed long shots and sleek editing composed for movement. …
Prior to watching Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry, the singer meant little more to me than the girl with the Prestone antifreeze-tinged locks whose name frequently appeared on TMZ. The same way people now have the capability to shoot a movie on a phone, Eilish and her brother/producer/performer …
Prior to watching Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry, the singer meant little more to me than the girl with the Prestone antifreeze-tinged locks whose name frequently appeared on TMZ. The same way people now have the capability to shoot a movie on a phone, Eilish and her brother/producer/performer …
It took a lot to make me set aside my prejudice against grown men who wear bow ties and/or Sherlock Holmes deerstalkers, but Bill Nye is the real deal. Consider this less a biodoc, more of an attack on the real threat posed by human-caused climate change. Don’t expect directors …
Bill (Alex Winter) assures us that “Sometimes, things don’t make sense until the end of the story.” It might well be a good distance from the culminating moments of The Life and Death of Col. Blimp or Planet of the Apes, but the opportunity to see Bill reunite with his …
Was it negative press accrued by the director’s fizzled attempt to renew interest in high resolution technology or the so-so box office performance by this year’s other high profile war epic, Hacksaw Ridge, that led to Sony’s decision not to screen Ang Lee’s much-hyped adaptation of Ben Fountain’s novel for …