THE SUBSTANCE (R) Dir. Coralie Fargeat Horror becomes her, as Demi Moore endures toxic beauty standards – and feminism – in what is easily one of the giddiest and goriest thrillers of the year. Grade (4.25 / 5.0) Societal expectations are a weird and terrible thing, and that seems to be something that there […]
The fact that filmmaker Roland Emmerich (“White House Down,” “10,000 BC”) having to get funds outside the U.S. to finance his $100+ million epic of American history should have been a clue that more work was needed with this project. Emmerich has assembled a B-list cast of characters and attempts to give each at least
If anyone cares to remember the 2015 Jennifer Lopez trash cinema “The Boy Next Door,” where a realistic situation is turned into smut tv on screen, that’s exactly what you are getting with “The Intruder.” These movies (I refuse to call them films because there is zero cinematic integrity) are bad on their own, but
Here we are again, talking about another young adult film, desperate to fill the void of Hunger Games or Divergent. Just like I said a month about The Darkest Minds, these movies are so intent on becoming a blockbuster franchise, they sacrifice creativity for breadcrumb set up. Kin is from director brothers Jonathan and Josh
Swedish director Lasse Hallström has made a career out of hit or miss feature films. One minute he has delivered Golden Globe nominated Salmon “Fishing in the Yemen”, an international romantic comedy. The next he is adapting Nicholas Sparks’s sappy “Dear John” starring Channing Tatum. “A Dog’s Purpose” is the movie version of internet click