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...
A Feel Good Film That Finally Soars!
The 1998 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary, Canada was arguably the site of two of the most improbable long-shots for Olympi...
"I Am A Golden God!", Said No One In This Movie.
More video game than movie, the primary positive takeaway from the new digitally-driven mythology-based Gods o...
A Gritty Police Heist Film That Earns Its Bonafides
DIRECTED BY JOHN HILLCOAT/2016
Being that it is February, I had very little expectations for a gri...
You Only Hurt The Ones You Love
Film #5: Your Sister’s Sister (2011)
Director: Lynn Shelton
Jack (Mark Duplass) remains trapped grief and depression a year...
A Hollywood Babylon By Way Of The Coen's
Sitting just a notch below 2003’s battle-of-the-sexes, romantic comedy Intolerable Cruelty, the Coen Brothers (No Coun...
