Super pigs, rapid fire poo balls with both Tilda Swinton and Jake Gyllenhaal playing cartoon like characters means this must be a Bong Joon-Ho film. The critically acclaimed South Korean director followed up action packed Snowpiercer with another thought provoking original concept. It’s hard not to like this film; it’s funny, cute, slightly twisted but […]
As a reasonable human being, I don’t condone alcohol abuse, illegal drug use, or murder. Rough Night, the new film from writer/director Lucia Aniello promotes all of these things, and asks the audience to laugh at them. It’s curious that someone like Scarlett Johansson who stands up at the DNC and speaks so whole heartily
This is how a comedy should be: Laugh out loud funny with substance and truth underneath. Zoe Lister-Jones is the current wonder woman who has written, directed, produced, and starred in a groundbreaking (to me) film about a couple who fights constantly, and playfully come up with the solution to their problems. I say “groundbreaking”
The setting of this animation of absolutely no value is grade school with a mean principal, Mr. Krupp (Helms) who has it in for two student cartoonists, George (Hart) and Harold (Middleditch), pranksters who constantly thwart Krupp’s efforts. Of course, he is shown as being just as humorless and bad as the two pranksters are
The updated Baywatch is no longer set in California (or Hawaii), it’s been revamped to Miami Beach. “Are you Batman?”, Mitch Buchannon’s latest rescued survivor asks. “Yea, sure. Just bigger and browner,” he replies. The original show aired from 1989 until the early 2000’s, evolving with the times and jump starting a lot of careers
Prepared for another stuffy Terence Davis film, always associating him with adaptations like House of Mirth. However, A Quiet Passion feels very alive for a film biography on the life and madness of poet Emily Dickinson. In fact, Davis’ original screenplay is award worthy, cunning, and hysterical. Even more surprising was the rich layers in
Jonathan Levine (50/50, Warm Bodies) is a sweet guy, he is just a terrible director. His early work including The Wackness (2008) offered hints at a promising career, but the 40-year-old has been on a downward spiral ever since and Snatched is the worst yet. Amy Schumer has officially stolen the most overrated comedian title
The one word that best describes writer/director/editor Sarah Adina Smith’s latest film Buster’s Mal Heart would be “frustrating”. Her sophomore feature is a perplexing setup that’s only really got one thing going for it, Mr. Robot’s Remi Malek. His performance as a confused and often deranged young man suffering from loss and inescapable circumstances is
Richard Gere is on double duty this week, with two new releases. Norman is the better of the two, giving the salt and pepper haired actor his first multilayered role in years. Norman functions like a 90’s Woody Allen, complete with the a frantic, inappropriate and nervous leading character. Gere wouldn’t have been my first
Zach Braff (Garden State) is behind the camera on this elderly buddy film, which is a remake of the George Burns picture of the same name from 1979. Batman’s most trusted cohorts Alfred Pennyworth and Lucius Fox, also known as Sir Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman, reunite on their six collaboration. I’ve referred to this