9 years ago
Reviews (10 posts found)
‘Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit’: Hollywood Hoopla
Why do audiences keep lining up for the lazy, Hollywood bullshit known as a “reboot?” Are people really that happy to line the pockets of moguls who obviously don’t give a damn about offering them content that hasn’t been re-gifted? In the past decade or so, ...
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A Country Struggles To Come Of Age In Georgia’s ‘In Bloom’
Georgia's submission to the Academy Awards finds two girls coming of age in an environment brimming with violence.
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‘The Truth About Emanuel’: She’s the Worst
Writer/director Francesca Gregorini’s The Truth About Emanuel is a psychological thriller about the ricocheting effects of a mother's death in childbirth. It focuses on the strange attraction between a seventeen-year-old girl named Emanuel and her new neighbor...
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Takeshi Kitano’s ‘Beyond Outrage’ is Violent Yet Ordinary
There’s an unsubstantiated rumor repeated along the standard IMDb/Wikipedia movie information stream stating that Takeshi Kitano’s directorial debut, Violent Cop, was originally to be helmed by Kinji Fukasaku. I have no idea if that’s true, but in light of Kit...
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‘The Marked Ones’ Offers A New Style Of ‘Paranormal Activity’
The latest installment in the popular found-footage franchise injects exciting new potential into the series.
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In ‘August: Osage County,’ Disorder Runs In The Family
Sharp writing and an astonishing cast make up for some poor directorial decisions.
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‘Lone Survivor’: Dishonoring The Fallen
There are two halves to Peter Berg's new film, an adaptation of former Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell's nonfiction novel Lone Survivor, that make approaching its content difficult at best: one represents the face of the picture that amounts to slickly made glorific...
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These ’47 Ronin’ Are Pretty Boring Guys
One of the most imaginative worlds in recent blockbuster films is populated by one-dimensional plot devices.
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‘The Wolf of Wall Street’: Sex, Lies, and Lemons
Martin Scorsese’s pictures wade through the darkness of the human soul, but rarely has his viewpoint been as bleak – as hopeless, really – as it is in The Wolf of Wall Street. The man, one of the American cinema’s living national treasures, has built a cinemat...
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‘Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom’ Is Destined to Be Played in High School Classrooms For Years to Come
Justin Chadwick's biopic is a well-made but sadly simplistic vision of a complex and truly inspiring figure.
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