Daniel Day-Lewis’ Oscar win for playing the 16th President of the United States marked the first time an actor won an Academy Award for a Steven Spielberg movie. “Bridge of Spies”, the legendary director’s first film since “Lincoln”, features another Hollywood heavyweight and, what could be, statue-worthy work. First off – Tom Hanks is sensational, […]
I was one of only a few critics who genuinely appreciated “Jobs”, the 2013 biopic on legendary Apple CEO Steve Jobs, starring Ashton Kutcher. A little more than two years later, Hollywood tackles the complicated mind of one of the most fascinating technological pioneers of all-time yet again with “Steve Jobs”. And this time they’ve […]
Australian actor Joel Edgerton is best known to American audiences as the star of the MMA drama “Warrior” and as Tom Buchanan in Baz Luhrman’s version of “The Great Gatsby”. “The Gift” is Edgerton’s feature film directorial debut. It’s a tense and genuinely suspenseful thriller which he also wrote, co-produced and co-stars in, alongside the […]
“Pixels” is one of the most original and enjoyable movies of the year, as the all-star lineup of Adam Sandler, the red-hot Josh Gad (“Frozen”), Kevin James, Michelle Monaghan (“Source Code”) and Peter Dinklage (“Game of Thrones”) battle aliens in the form of giant classic video game characters. Director Chris Columbus (“Mrs. Doubtfire”, “Harry Potter […]
Over the last 10 years, Dwayne Johnson has starred in nearly 20 movies. The former WWE wrestler turned mega media star with that million dollar-smile is out to save the day once again – this time from the mother of all earthquakes in “San Andreas”. Johnson plays Ray, Chief of the Los Angeles Fire & […]
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? If you don’t know the answer to that question by now, you’ve been living under a certain sea star’s rock. SpongeBob SquarePants has been a worldwide cultural phenomenon since his debut on Nickelodeon in 1999. In 2004, the sea creatures of Bikini Bottom went from TV screens […]
Several films in recent years have dealt with the devastating effects of Alzheimer’s disease, but none so effectively and tragically as “Still Alice”. Based on the best-selling novel by Lisa Genova, “Still Alice” stars Julianne Moore plays the title character, a Columbia University professor of linguistics, who, at the age of 50, is diagnosed with […]
Last year, director Jean-Marc Vallee earned “Dallas Buyers Club” stars Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto Lead and Supporting Actor honors from nearly every major awards organization. Now, Vallee’s follow-up, “Wild”, has placed Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern as Lead and Supporting Actress frontrunners for their raw and brave performances in one of 2014’s most engrossing […]
Not long after DreamWorks Animation released its over-the-top, all-star comedy “Madagascar” in 2005, the studio was already thinking about having the film’s breakout characters, the slick and suave Penguins, headline their own movie. Now, nearly 10 years later (and following two more “Madagascar” films and a “Penguins” TV series on Nickelodeon), the Penguins are finally […]
“Whiplash” is one of the great indie triumphs of the year. It is exhilarating and suspenseful – daring and dark, with two scintillating performances. Miles Teller (“The Spectacular Now”) plays Andrew Neyman, a percussion student at the fictional and prestigious Schaffer School of Music in NYC. In his first semester at the school, Andrew is […]