When I first heard the title for the sixth film in the Tom Cruise action franchise, I thought how ingenious that would be for a documentary about Cruise and Nicole Kidman’s marriage, his obsession with cult Scientology or even the bizarre antics surrounding Katie Holmes. Alas, it’s another sequel comprised of over two hours where […]
Is “Unfriended: Dark Web” a sequel to the 2016 movie D-grade flick, “Friend Request”, or did I miss another one of these cheap, shoe string budget, forgettable flicks with no actors? Regardless, like the similar ones before it, this one too plays out on a laptop screen in which the viewer watches various online social
I’m tempted to copy and paste everything I wrote about the last Purge film onto this review, as it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish between them. Despite its status as a prequel, “The First Purge” offers very little we haven’t seen before. The controversial franchise is basically a cinematic encouragement of violence as it pits
It’s been a good year for directorial debuts. Producer/writer turned director Drew Pearce creates an unusual futuristic world with Hotel Artemis. It’s a suspense thriller with cleverness and a superb cast. Jodie Foster is back on the screen for the first time since the disappointing Elysium (2013) and Pearce’s sense of humor and violence isn’t
There are lots of survival films, many of them taking place in open water. “Adrift” is both similar to those before it, and strikingly different. Based on an incredible true story of a sailboat wrecked in the Pacific, Shailene Woodley (“The Descendants”) re-dons her bathing suit to give what’s easily her most ambitious and demanding
If you ever wanted to know what David Fincher’s Panic Room might look like as a made for television movie, look no further. From the director of bargain bin movies like The Raven (remake) and Ninja Assassin, James McTeigue brings his talent for bad cinema to the desperate-vengeful-black mom genre, which has until know, only
I’m not sure where filmmakers are getting info that the American public want to see thrillers set in the middle east. Beirut is the second film to take place in the middle east starring Oscar nominee Rosamund Pike in less than 30 days. Beirut is a higher quality film than the recent 7 Days in
The horror genre is making a comeback where intelligent and creative entries are concerned. “A Quiet Place” is the sophomore directorial effort from actor John Krasinski who also stars in the film. It’s a swift horror film that earns genuinely terrifying moments, never getting bogged down in the details of the story. Blunt’s performance is
Oscar winning director Steven Soderberg delivers his first horror movie and his first film shot entirely with an iPhone. This isn’t the first film released to be shot entirely on the popular mobile device. “Tangerine” by Sean Baker (“The Florida Project”) was an award-winning iPhone-shot film. It was a distracting experiment in technology for “Tangerine”,
Cory Finley’s directorial debut is a sleeper, without the word hit being attached to it. A sleeper in the sense, I couldn’t sustain my interested and barely kept my eyes open. That’s surprising for a film that deals with two disturbed teenage girls plotting to kill a stepdad. Finley’s original screenplay looks at the story