Dirty Grandpa finds an earnest corporate lawyer being persuaded to drive his grandpa to Florida the day after his grandma’s funeral – and a week before his own wedding. If the movie’s title, TV spots and online trailers haven’t made it clear, Dirty Grandpa is a loud, crazy, vulgar farce that attempts to mix crudity […]
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Band of Robbers: Tom & Huck Still Looking For A Place to Belong!
Brothers Aaron and Adam Nee clearly believe that the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are timeless – otherwise, why try to update them in the first place? Between them, the Brothers Nee have written and directed one of the loosest, strangest and most interesting takes on Mark Twain’s wily and unique protagonists.
Svengali – Wistful Rock & Roll Love Story!
Dixie knows more about music than anyone else in Wales and, with his girlfriend Shell, he figures he can get to London, persuade them to let him manage them and make them massive. Svengali is a love story – between Dixie and music and between Dixie and Shell. It’s wistful, a bit melancholy and gently […]
The Revenant – Elegantly Brutal Western Revenge Tale!
Revenant: 2.A person or thing reborn (Wiktionary). Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s The Revenant is adapted from a novel that was based on real events, so it comes by its PR as ‘inspired by true events’ the long way round – but that does not lessen its impact. The Revenant is a riveting tale of brutal survival […]
The Hateful Eight, Not Tarantino’s Best But Still Worth A Trip! Michelle’s Review
Every Quentin Tarantino film comes across as a vanity project, which is both good and bad. I’m not entirely clear why it bothers me more for The Hateful Eight than anything else he’s done. Maybe it’s the weird release strategy of having two separate cuts of the film, a standard Digital Release that will go […]
The Hateful Eight – DCP Ain’t 70mm But It’s Not Bad!
I saw The Hateful Eight a few hours ago and even though we might not have a 70mm house in town, it’s still a great ride on a more or less standard screen with digital projection.
Point Break: An Intense Remake of a Fun Film!
Point Break takes the basic plot and characters from the Patrick Swayze-Keanu Reeves cult classic and fashions them into a gorgeously shot, intense thriller that hides its characters’ one-notedness behind brilliant cinematography and ridiculously cool stunts.
Concussion – The NFL Vs. Bennett C. Omalu MD!
Dr. Bennett C. Omalu is the Nigerian-American coroner who identified the brain damage that was the cause of mental health issues for ex-NFL players. The story is, as they used to say, ‘ripped from the headlines’ – and given that the NFL has just backed out of a concussion study at a Boston University, its […]
The Big Short Goes Long On Brains, Wit, Satire and Honesty!
Adam McKay has left soft boiled satires like Anchorman and Talladega Nights in the dust with The Big Short. This look behind the headlines of the big economic disaster of 2007 makes us laugh and identify with characters we shouldn’t while explaining the jargon that Wall Street uses to hide its sins. It is, in […]
Sisters’ Subversive Party Comedy Clicks!
Sisters is one of the best crude-with-a-heart movies of the year – and the most subversive because the epic party being thrown isn’t through the efforts (and fantasies) of high school or college guys but a couple of middle-aged women. It’s also great fun because its stars – Tina Fey and Amy Poehler – play […]
Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Echoes of Greatness!
My first published movie review was for Star Wars – long before it became Episode Four: A New Hope. That opening shot of the rebel fighter being pursued by the Empire dreadnought hooked me like new movie before – or since. After the sheer awfulness of the second trilogy (Episodes I, II, and III), I […]