Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Best picture winner at Sundance this year, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl was snapped up by Fox Searchlight in hopes of pushing it into the awards season.
Comedy
Dope
Up-and-coming filmmaker Rick Famuyiwa’s Dope is a clever, well written, and directed picture with a fine cast and a plot that is complex and engaging enough to keep the audience pulled right in. Television and film (Joyful Noise) star Shameik Moore as Malcolm nails his character, a young black high school nerd with a high crew cut (I
Aloha
Cameron Crowe (Elizabethtown, We Bought a Zoo) gets everything wrong about his Hawaii that The Descendants director Alexander Payne got so right. We begin with vintage Hawaiian footage, alongside military and space footage, warning us of multiple storylines. Crowe assembled another impressive cast, led by Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper (American Sniper) in another military role. Aloha is a sad film
Slow West
Lack of western’s got you down? Look no further than the directorial debut of John Maclean’s Slow West. Bouncing around film festivals for six months, Slow West is an odyssey of poetic characters, providing sarcasm, nostalgia and love in every persona. Slow West would likely be the result if Tarantino and Scorsese teamed up in
I’ll See You In My Dreams
I doubt audiences will be lining up to see a film about a widowed 70 year old, pondering life’s cruel reasons for her loneliness. It’s their loss if they don’t, I’ll See You In My Dreams is not only charming and delightful, it’s the three dimension lead role Blythe Danner (Meet the Parents) has been
Ride
Ride is the second time Academy Award winner Helen Hunt (As Good As It Gets, The Sessions) has directed herself behind the camera. Following her portrayl of Bethany Hamilton’s mother in Soul Surfer, this is Hunt’s second time exhibiting surf skills. Ride is a beautifully unconventional love story between a mother and son. The script
Hot Pursuit
Just when you thought it was safe to accept Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon back into the pool of actors – turning their sinking career around… Ok, she still gets credit for her recent nominated performance in Wild and producing Gone Girl, but Hot Pursuit is a step backwards for the actress. She might be a
The D Train
Jack Black’s latest comedy The D Train is distributed by IFC, so you might wonder why is one of the former reining box office comedians opening a new film with a small studio? The answer is twofold, since Black’s recent films Bernie, The Big Year and Gulliver’s Travels didn’t produce profit and the “D” in
Welcome to Me
Saturday Night Live alum Kristen Wiig is a machine when it comes to delivering new work. Lately she has been producing three feature films a year, with Welcome to Me is just the latest lead role for the Oscar nominee. What feels like one of Wiig’s famous skit caricatures appearing in their own film, is
Little Boy
Can a movie be too sweet? Little Boy sets out to prove that is the case and produced by Roma Downey & Mark Burnett (Son of God), we should have suspected it from the beginning. Its aim is to appease the Norman Rockwell/Andy Griffith crowd, but those days are long gone where family films are