The protagonists of SEX TAPE are a happily married couple, deeply in love and deeply committed to one another and their two kids, but, after 10 years or so of marriage, the fiery passion they enjoyed in the first flush of lust/love, and before discovering how versatile a ladys lady parts are, has become a… Read More »
GET ON UP
James Brown was no ordinary star, and GET ON UP, the film about him is no ordinary bio-pic. It is as kinetic and as kaleidoscopic as the radical new approach to music Brown introduced. Chadwick Boseman, star of 42, essays another real-life character and with the same intensity and passion that be brought to Jackie… Read More »
INTO THE STORM
Weather nerds rejoice. The film for which you have waited has finally arrived. The rest of you, move along, theres nothing much to see here. INTO THE STORM takes a ragtag group of disparate people and moves them through a ragtag script that boldly goes where everyone has gone before. The one thing the film… Read More »
THE MAZE RUNNER
THE MAZERUNNER, based on the best-selling young-adult novel by James Dashner, makes a satisfying transition to the big screen. If some of the characters are a bit underwritten, never fear, there is a sequel built in to the storytelling with the promise of more depth. As for the film at hand, its thumping good adventure… Read More »
THE DROP
There are many remarkable things about THE DROP, but the foremost is the way in which it so perfectly evokes its film noir roots. Set in the seamy underbelly where might is right and cops can do little but wring their hands, it is a world dark in thought and deed, where the wrong thing… Read More »
SONGCATCHER
Ah summertime, barbecues, sunburns and big budget films designed to take you to galaxies far, far away or other equally unlikely locations. When the focus is on special effects, sometimes there just isnt time to worry about a script. Fortunately, for those of us who enjoy popcorn flicks but also long for something more substantial,… Read More »
GONE GIRL
GONE GIRL is an elegantly rendered, yet lurid potboiler of a movie. Director David Fincher brings his characteristic darkness, literal and figurative to an already dark tale of subterfuge, murder, and the secrets we keep from everyone, including ourselves. Based on the novel of the same name by screenwriter Gillian Flynn, it gifts us with… Read More »
WE WERE SOLDIERS
General Harold Moore, a scholar and soldier, wears his devotion to the military on his sleeve. There is no sloppy sentimentality about it, nor is there a cynicism that someone who has spent his life under fire might harbor. Instead there is a quiet pride in the institution, his men, and their heroism that only… Read More »
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
You can see how Steven Spielberg and company would have salivated at the prospect of bringing this story to the screen. Inspired by actual events in the life of Frank Abignale, Jr., its got a 16-year-old runaway conning his way around the world with forged checks and eluding the FBI for three years back in… Read More »
NARC
NARC begins intensely with a narc’s-eye view of a bust gone bad. Everything happens too quickly and there is no time to focus on any one event, from the killing of a bystander to the killing of the perp as he attempts to take a toddler hostage, to the shooting of the toddler’s pregnant mother.… Read More »
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