“The Identical” is a small, Christian-based drama with the most contradictory title of any film this year. In so many ways this movie is unlike any ever made. The set-up is o.k. – a young, married couple living in the South back in the 1930s, decides to give one of their newborn twin boys to […]
I give the team behind the new sports movie, “When the Game Stands Tall” a lot of credit for pulling-off something nearly impossible: they’ve made a film about the most successful high school football team of all-time that’s about as exciting as a 0-0 tie in an NFL exhibition game. “When the Game Stands Tall” […]
“Into the Storm” is basically a 21st Century “Twister”: Storm chasers go after some of the most dangerous tornadoes on record to get information and capture incredible video, while at the same time trying to protect themselves and those they care about from literally being sucked away into a twister. But like all quality movies […]
“The Rover” is director David Michod’s follow-up to 2010’s “Animal Kingdom”, for which Jacki Weaver (“Silver Linings Playbook”) received an Oscar nomination. This grizzly crime drama debuted last month at the Cannes Film Festival, with praise galore for actors Guy Pearce and “Twilight”‘s Robert Pattinson. Their performances are the best thing about “The Rover”, which […]
“Brick Mansions” is the penultimate film starring “Fast & Furious” actor Paul Walker, who died tragically in a car accident last November. He plays Damien Collier, an undercover cop in 2018 Detroit, which has officially become the most dangerous city in America. In order to prevent escalating crime, giant walls have been built around a […]
I instantly became a fan of off-beat and quirky director Wes Anderson after seeing his 2009 animated masterpiece “Fantastic Mr. Fox”, based on the book by Roald Dahl, and starring the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, and Bill Murray. “Mr. Fox” actually topped my list of the Best Films of ’09. However I was […]
“Winter’s Tale” is the feature film directorial debut of Academy Award-winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman, who penned the 2001 Best Picture winner “A Beautiful Mind”. The stars of that film: Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly, join Colin Farrell in this romantic fantasy, adapted from a 30-year-old book. It’s no wonder that every frame of this film […]
“The Monuments Men” was originally one of the frontrunners for this past Awards Season, with 2-time Oscar winner George Clooney serving as star, director, co-writer and co-producer of the WWII drama. Sony gave it a prime December 18th release date, in hopes of bouncing back from the underwhelming Awards Season play of Clooney’s previous directorial […]
Meryl Streep is a three-time Oscar winner, who has given mesmerizing performances in such films as “The Devil Wears Prada”, “Julie & Julia”, “The Iron Lady” and many more. And while she is fantastic as wife and mother Violet Wilson in the big-screen version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “August: Osage County”, this has to be the most discombobulated movie […]
2013 was a break-out year for actor Benedict Cumberbatch. As if his playing (you know who) in “Star Trek Into Darkness” wasn’t enough, he also had roles in Awards Season contenders “12 Years a Slave”, “August: Osage County”, and “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug”. And there was some early buzz surrounding Cumberbatch’s work as […]