Italian director Matteo Garrone has changed what I consider visionary after his horror fantasy Tale of Tales. With Disney doling out forgettable fairy tales right and left, and large musical productions like Into the Woods, the origin of the fairy tale has been lost and forgotten. No, I am not talking about Grimm’s fairy tales, […]
It’s so refreshing to see a children’s film that has so much going for it. Zootopia’s palette and visual effects are beautifully dimensional and the picture contains endearing and diverse animal characters that behave so human, some really fine observations about our own species can be drawn from them in terms that children can easily
2015 has been a watershed year when it comes to transgender equality, and the motion picture industry has played its part with a number of important films this year exploring the issue.
(T)ERROR is a troubling documentary about the FBI’s use of paid informants to identify individuals who might be terrorists. Lyric Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe writers and directors, follow an informant during his work with three “persons of interest” (POI). Lyric had known Saeed (aka “Shariff”) since her childhood, when he suddenly disappeared from
Oscar winning director Robert Zemeckis (Contact, Forrest Gump, Cast Away) has done it again, blown my mind. Ever the homme de génie, Zemeckis understands that pressing all the buttons at once can sometimes can make a story come alive. The casting is equally as mind-blowing. What does it take for a true story about
French Canadian director Denis Villeneuve caught my undivided attention with his thriller “Prisoners” (2013), portraying one of the darkest kidnapping scenarios in recent memory. Villeneuve explores even darker subject matter in his latest suspense thriller “Sicario” (meaning hitman in Mexico), that will make pudding out of any 2015 horror film. Its closest companion would
Captive, a really tight, tense thriller, portrays the desperation of an inmate frustrated about being locked up for so long for something he did not do. (The film leaves unclear whether he is right or not, but seems to imply that he is correct.) Brian Nichols (Oyelowo) decides to take matters into his own
A story of betrayal, blind trust and denouement, Phoenix will pull you in and keep you engaged throughout. It starts out mysteriously with two women in a car, one driving and the other in head bandages so only her eyes show.
