Review: ‘The Rising Hawk’Great Visuals And Strong Fight Choreography Can’t Save This Action Adventure
In 1883, Ukrainian author/poet Ivan Franco wrote the historical fiction “Zakhar Berkut” based on the life of the titular character who was a 90-year-old...
Review: ‘2067’Kodi Smit-McPhee Tries To Stop A Climate Crisis With Time Travel In A...
The state of the world being as it is, it's becoming much easier to consider all of the dire post-apocalyptic sci-fi movies we've consumed...
Review: ‘Eternal Beauty’Sally Hawkins Shines In Craig Roberts' Film About Mental Illness
Films portraying mental illness (especially when depicted by someone considered “normal”) is always a slippery slope. Ben Stiller’s Tropic Thunder captivated in the most...
Review: ‘Save Yourselves!’A Hilarious Alien Invasion Comedy That Needs To Be On Your Radar
*NOTE: This is a reprint of my review from the Sundance Film Festival. Save Yourselves! opens in theaters October 2nd and digital October 6th.*
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Review: ‘A Call To Spy’Female Spies Fight For Liberty In An Admirable WWII Thriller...
In 2016, Sarah Megan Thomas produced and starred in Equity, a financial thriller that showed the cutthroat world of Wall Street from a financial...
Review: ‘The Glorias’Julie Taymor’s Gloria Steinem Biopic Is Uneven But Engaging
*NOTE: This is a reprint of my review from the Sundance Film Festival.*
Life’s road is jagged, never a straight line. That’s especially true for...
Review: ‘The Artist’s Wife’Lena Olin Leads Bruce Dern In A Radiant Performance
A good performance can save a movie. A great performance can make a movie seem better than it was. Lena Olin in The Artist's...
Review: ‘Kajillionaire’Evan Rachel Wood Leads Miranda July's Layered Grifter Comedy
There’s a saying that money can’t solve your problems, but it sure does help. The new film Kajillionaire from director Miranda July, follows a...
Review: ‘Foster Boy’The Shaquille O’Neal Produced Legal Drama Tackles Private Foster Care
“Too many foster kids are scared, neglected, lonely, and abused” - Shaquille O’Neal
Screenwriter Jay Paul Deratany spent most of his career as a lawyer...
Review: ‘Blackbird’Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, And Mia Wasikowska Lead A Trite End-Of-Life Dramedy
Family get-togethers, particularly around the holidays, can lead only to an equal amount of nostalgia and squabbling. That's just the way these things go...