Five Feet Apart (the screenplay for which was turned into a bestselling novel) is not just a ‘beautiful sick teens in love’ movie. It lacks most of the treacle that tends to get in the way of genuine emotion in these types of films.
Girl meets boy; they fall in love. Both have Cystic Fibrosis – the protocol for which requires that they can never be closer than six feet apart. Being the rebellious, madly in love pair that they are, they choose to move to five feet apart. Five Feet Apart will open on March 15th. Bring your […]
Young Scot Rose-Lynn Harlan wants nothing more than she wants to be a country singer based in Nashville. Fresh out of jail, and with two young children and facing negativity from her mother, she is encouraged by her boss to go for it in Wild Rose. Check out the trailer below. Wild Rose will be […]
A high court judge, whose husband is about to embark upon an affair, is called upon to rule in the case of a seventeen-year-old boy with leukemia who refuses a blood transfusion as a member of Jehovah’s Witnesses. The Children Act premieres on September 14th.
The story of a real life romance and near tragedy, The Big Sick (we gave it an A+) is coming to Blu-ray and DVD on September 19th with a goodly supply of extras, including an Audio Commentary by Actor-Writer Kumail Nanjiani, Writer Emily V. Gordon, Producer Barry Mendel and Director Michael Showalter; featurettes, deleted scenes […]
American Assassin is based on the book of the same title by the late Vince Flynn, and introduces us to Mitch Rapp – a wounded young man who saw his fiancée killed by terrorists and decides to go after them himself. It could have been a pedestrian thriller by committed performances by Dylan O’Brien, Michael […]
Steven Soderbergh is back from his retirement from filmmaking four years ago – with a fierce heist flick that gives Channing Tatum and Daniel Craig a chance to have some real fun. Logan Lucky is about a heist by a group of redneck/hillbilly/good ole by types who look and sound dumb – but probably ain’t!
In Jacob Tremblay’s follow up to Room, Wonder, he stars as August Pullman – born with facial differences that meant he was home schooled up until the end of fourth grade. When, finally, he enters a mainstream school, he becomes a most unlikely hero. Wonder will be in theaters on November 17th. Wonder – […]
The first John Wick film was one of the rare action flicks to actually warrant the title film. It was mad crazy in terms of action and remarkably thorough at sketching out the world in which the characters lived and worked. John Wick Chapter 2 expands that world in fun, messy ways and is even […]
Talk about an awkward teen romance! Gardner Eliot is the first true Martian – born there in 2018 – and the first true Martian orphan (his mother died in childbirth). When he meets Tulsa, another orphan, via the Internet (by 2034 we have instantaneous internet connections between Earth and Mars!), he falls in love.
It’s been not quite a decade since Ontario cop Martin Ward and Québec cop David Bouchard met on a case and overcame some slight… shall we call them… cultural differences to get the job done. Now their paths are crossing again and, though they’ve remained friends since overcoming those cultural differences, it’s been a year […]