IFE Film Review: Tale as old as time is new again in Beauty and the Beast
When it comes to mining their past glories for future profits, no one does it better than the House of Mouse. And though Disney has pretty m... Continue Reading
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IFE Film Review: 20th Century Women lingers like a dreamy, SoCal sunset
Although the term gets bandied about more often than it probably should in kombucha-swilling hipster circles these days, writer-director Mik... Continue Reading
IFE Film Review: Special Sauce missing from undercooked The Founder
Writer-director John Lee Hancock has been cranking out hugely-entertaining, big studio fare like The Blind Side, The Alamo, and The Rookie f... Continue Reading
Former teacher seeks to attract girls to STEM with Fly Like a Girl
When Fly Like a Girl director Katie McEntire Wiatt was a little girl she wanted to be everything from a Broadway star and a chef to an Olymp... Continue Reading
IFE Film Review: Sundance stunner Sami Blood is a revelation
If you’re anything like me, the only thing you know about Swedish Lappland and the indigenous people who live there, known as the Sami... Continue Reading
IFE Film Review: Shyamalan returns to form with scary-good Split
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s memorable quote about there being “no second acts in American lives” usually goes double in Hollywoo... Continue Reading
IFE Film Review: Style trumps substance in Nocturnal Animals
Like a beautiful, yet tragically vapid, runway model, writer-director Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals might look like a million bucks on ... Continue Reading
IFE Film Review: Fiercely feminist Rogue One is best in a generation
Even casual fans of the Star Wars franchise know that although the films are technically set in a galaxy far, far away, like the best sci-fi... Continue Reading
IFE Film Review: Office Christmas Party is a kegger to remember
Some airlines claim that their passengers prefer comedies when they fly, for others its dramas or big summer action flicks. But if you ask m... Continue Reading
Is LGBTQ-themed Moonlight too gay for IFE?
While most of the major Oscar buzz at last year’s Telluride Film Festival revolved around splashy studio fare like La La Land, Arrival... Continue Reading
IFE Film Review: Passengers should steer clear of Passengers
All I can say is that Passengers must have looked like a sure thing on paper. Jennifer Lawrence. Chris Pratt. The Oscar-winning badass from ... Continue Reading
IFE Film Review: Fantastic Beasts is start of something truly magical
Cinematic prequels have had a bad rap ever since George Lucas decided to hang the eagerly awaited, but much-maligned, Star Wars prequels on ... Continue Reading
IFE Film Review: Aussie indie Girl Asleep is asleep at the wheel
In an award season where overrated and highly-derivative drivel like La La Land have taken center stage (and far too many little golden stat... Continue Reading
IFE Film Review: Fiercely feminist Moana sets sail to uncharted waters
While the character of Moana would probably be loath to refer to herself as a Disney Princess, or any other kind of princess for that matter... Continue Reading
IFE Film Review: Soulful sci-fi drama Arrival reinvents alien invasion epic
La La Land and Moonlight may have dominated most of the pre-Oscar chatter – and thanks to last week’s bizarro Best Picture envel... Continue Reading
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