Likely the most appropriately titled film of the year, “Chaos Walking” is just that, a lot of chaos and a lot of walking. Intended as a Spring Break box office hit, the pandemic has marginalized this visual effects-heavy film. “Chaos Walking” is based on author Patrick Ness young adult adventure novel “The Knife of Never […]
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
UglyDolls is not really about being ugly; it’s about being different or outside the mold. The message is worthwhile, but it takes a long time to get there, and the means of delivering it simply doesn’t measure up in terms of being interesting, entertaining, or inspiring. On the contrary, it seemed to me that I was enduring an
subject matter in the news recently. The opening credits, focused on youthful male bodies in slow motion and at unrest, clues the viewer in to the preceding dark nature of the film. Celebrity faces like pop singer Nick Jonas and indie king James Franco (also a producer), are added to the mix in an attempt
No one accidently makes a movie this bad. I refuse to believe director Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum accidently allowed this male teen fantasy thriller to constantly venture into the worst dialogue, worst editing, and worst acting. For pop music superstar and Entertainment Weekly’s sexiest person of the summer, Nick Jonas doesn’t fare too well in his