If you can imagine one of those traumatizing paramedic episodes of “Grey’s Anatomy” combined with Antoine Fuqua’s award-winning “Training Day,” you might get some idea of what “Asphalt City” is going to put you through. Previously titled “Black Flies” when it debuted at Cannes last year, what could have been just another rookie working with […]
An admirable feat of artistic production, The World to Come takes us on an unexpected journey through two marriages in the 19thCentury full of grief and ineptitude lit up by an uncommon love. The two couples live on isolated farms in New York. We first meet Abigale (Waterston) and Dyer (Affleck) who live a seemingly ideal life on a
A fascinating part of history, hypothetically a good movie, cast all wrong and handed to the wrong filmmakers. Jake Gyllenhaal was originally cast as George Westinghouse, which would have balanced the star power of Cumberbatch. Going out on a limb here and suggesting why the film feels so lopsided and told from all the wrong
The Fantastic Beasts sequel is not as good as the first one (imagine that) and this prequel, which occurs 70 or so years before Harry Potter, is just not as captivating overall. Director David Yates returns to the wizarding world yet again with Rowling on screenwriting. The Crimes of Grindelwald suffers from a variety of
Jonah Hill is now a filmmaker. The Oscar-nominated actor (The Wolf of Wall Street) has joined the slew of young actors sliding into the director’s chair. The vile, immature antics we’ve come to expect from Hill on screen (Superbad, 21 Jump Street) are still here in this skateboarding nostalgia trip appropriately titled Mid 90’s. It doesn’t
Steven Soderbergh returns with “Oceans 7-Eleven”, putting old favorites and new faces into an original script by fictitious writer Rebecca Blunt (post film, you’ll point all fingers at Soderbergh). Regardless of who wrote it, it’s very clever, very charming and has all the things we love about Soderbergh’s work in an entirely new setting: The
Director Ridley Scott is trying to refurbish the “Alien” series which he began back in 1979. Unhappy with sequels that followed (Alien 2 by James Cameron, Alien 3 by David Fincher, Alien 4 by Jean-Pierre Jeunet). Scott (“Gladiator,” “The Martian”) began the prequel journey in 2012 with “Prometheus,” intruding the saga to a new generation
Most people either love or hate Paul Thomas Anderson’s movies; Boogie Nights and Magnolia were both Oscar nominated films. Anderson’s work evolved with the debut of Punch Drunk Love (showcasing Adam Sandler in his first serious role) and then again with the best picture nominee There Will Be Blood, earning Daniel Day Lewis a second