Sing Street will leave you singing in the aisle
Anyone who has ever had a dream or joined a band or rattled the cages of authority in the schoolyard and done something really big and stupi... Continue Reading
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Midnight Special is audacious indie filmmaking
In this era of pre-packaged, comic book dreck and quirky, low-budget comedies masquerading as indie films simply because they were financed ... Continue Reading
Our Little Sister is heartfelt, fractured family drama
You know you’re watching a truly great family relationship drama, or comedy for the matter, when the characters and situations are so ... Continue Reading
Everybody Wants Some!! is rare Linklater foul ball
Indie icon Richard Linklater has been making wry, rambling, character-driven films since he burst onto the scene with 1991’s Sundance ... Continue Reading
Batman v Superman – Yawn of Justice
With the exception of the Lynda Carter era Wonder Woman, the swinging 60’s Adam West Batman, and the early Christopher Reeve Superman ... Continue Reading
Heartfelt biopic Eddie the Eagle falls short of medal
Sports movies are tricky; go the stately, serious drama route and you get something like Chariots of Fire, Seabiscuit or Remember the Titans... Continue Reading
10 Cloverfield Lane is insanely suspenseful
Whether you loved it or hated it, 1999’s micro-budgeted indie smash The Blair Witch Project revolutionized the way movies are made in ... Continue Reading
Sugar makes medicine go down with dark Zootopia
The Good Dinosaur may have won over the kinder crowd and Inside Out may have walked away with all the award-season kudos last year, but when... Continue Reading
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies proves too polite
When Quirk Books publisher Jason Rekulak first pitched the idea of injecting a healthy dose of brain-eating gore into one of the most revere... Continue Reading
Thanksgiving comes early with Hail, Caesar! turkey
When it comes to making really bad movies on a truly epic scale, nobody in Hollywood does it better than the Coen brothers. For while Fargo,... Continue Reading
I’m Off Then offers up soul-searching pilgrimage
An overworked, self-described “pudgy couch potato”, Hape Kerkeling wasn’t exactly Charlie Sheen excessive, but after burni... Continue Reading
Irish immigrant saga Brooklyn will steal your heart
I watched a lot of movies in film school, but one that always stuck with me was Elia Kazan’s late career masterpiece America America. ... Continue Reading
Maggie Smith breathes fire into The Lady in the Van
After more than sixty years in the business, it’s easier to pick the occupations and/or iconic film roles that Dame Maggie Smith has n... Continue Reading
Spanish Affair 2 is second helping of awesome
Calanda-born writer-director Luis Buñuel put Spanish cinema squarely on the map during his long, storied career with such surrealist classic... Continue Reading
Point Break remake makes you yearn for the original
Remakes are tricky. Especially when you’re redoing a movie that is widely considered to be one of the best bad movies ever made, Kathr... Continue Reading
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