Schumer and Hawn steal the show in Snatched
It’s no secret that I have a total soft spot for loud, gross-out comedies with female leads. Ghostbusters, Sisters, Bad Moms, The Boss... Continue Reading
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Oscar season starts early with pitch-perfect Elis
Telenova superstar Andréia Horta (Liberdade, Chamas da Vida) might not be a household name outside of her native Brazil just yet, but if her... Continue Reading
Plan B is high octane homage to retro action epics
While the terms German-language martial arts action comedy have rarely, if ever, been used in the same sentence, German-language martial art... Continue Reading
Crappy Kong reboot deserves the boot
While I am usually totally cool with Marvel Studios-style expanded universe filmmaking – especially when it yields such badassery as D... Continue Reading
Stars outshine story in disjointed romance Porto
Though he is probably best known to mainstream audiences for his recurring role as Pavel Chekov in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek reboots, the... Continue Reading
Monster Trucks is celebration of STEAM
Jerry Seinfeld once memorably opined that, when it comes to entertainment, there really is “no such thing as fun for the whole family&... Continue Reading
Groundhog Day for teens Before I Fall tumbles badly
I don’t pretend to be an expert on millennial or even post-millennial angst, but I do know a bad teen movie when I see one, and Before... Continue Reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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