This week’s new release is heading straight to streaming video with so many movie theaters currently closed. This one will likely find more viewers on-demand than it would have in a cinema. “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” was one of the Sundance Film Festival’s big finds. Writer and director Eliza Hittman delivers a modern-day look at […]
Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Mustang was one of the more impressive foreign film nominees last Oscar season. But Mustang wasn’t the film she really wanted to make. It was her 2011 screenplay that evolved into Kings, a story that focuses on one non-traditional family’s struggle during the 1991 LA riots. Landing two big stars (both former
There is a very good reason The Trust is debuting in limited release and VOD at the same time. When the film was introduced at SXSW, the announcer jokingly said it was “Very Cagey”, but for those who have charted the steady decline of the once admired Oscar winning actor, you know what it means.
The second novel to be adapted from Oscar nominated writer Gillian Flynn, Dark Places initially had a lot going for it after the success of Gone Girl. Flynn however did not pen the screenplay for this one, instead writer/director Gilles Paquet-Brenner (Sarah’s Key) took up that responsibility. Even with a terrific cast, Dark Places lacks
If you have seen Jodie Foster in The Brave One, you have an idea for the tone and theme of Lila & Eve.
It would take much less than seven minutes to fully sum up the lack of originality this new heist film brings to the genre.
Pocket thrillers are what I call these low budget, high impact star vehicles; Often thrillers that isolate two characters that do a lot of damage. Joining other pocket thrillers like Locke, Phone Booth, Buried or even Gravity, Beyond the Reach uses wide open spaces in New Mexico for terrifying effect. 70 year old Michael Douglas