Far From The World's Finest
It’s been a while since Ben Affleck was in a Michael Bay film. This isn’t one, but it will do… While filmmaker Zack Snyd...
Film #10: Wadjda (2012)
Director: Haifaa Al Mansour
Wadjda (Waad Mohammed) is all that’s best about being an 11 year old girl. She is funny and feisty, long...
A Disappointing Installment In An Already Disappointing Series
Well, it’s not good. In a sea of dystopian YA lit. adaptations, Divergent has always been the ru...
A Journey Of A Man Who Has Lost His Way...
Terrence Malick’s new film, Knight of Cups, is a gorgeous ocean of urban beauty washing in and out like the ocean ti...
Does this Sort-of Sequel Live Up?
DIRECTED BY DAN TRACHTENBERG/2016
Cloverfield is a 2008 Sci-fi film that I didn’t particularly care for, but has been misreme...
Five Sisters, Not Easily Broken
Film #9: Mustang (2015)
Director: Deniz Gamze Urgüven
I write this review on International Women’s Day, and I couldn’t ha...
Disney's Surprising And Arresting Buddy Comedy
Expectations in regard to Disney’s latest animated feature, Zootopia, are likely rooted in two things:
1. The...
Tina Fey's New Movie Is Funny But Flawed
Tina Fey does light comedies: Baby Mama, Date Night, Sisters. Given her career to this point, I expected Whisky Tango ...
Documentary Gives A Human Face To Both Victims And Abusers
Film #8: Deliver Us From Evil (2006)
Director: Amy Berg
I write this just a couple of days aft...
