Patricia Highsmith’s tale of love against all the odds, Carol, has been adapted for film and stars Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara. Directed by Todd Haynes, Carol will be in theaters on November 20th. Check out the first teaser following the jump.
Category: Movie Reviews
Straight Outta Compton – Mostly The Straight $#!+!
F. Gary Gray’s Straight Outta Compton is a pretty straightforward recounting of the rising of hardcore rappers N.W.A. – and their almost equally speedy disintegration. It also whitewashes an important aspect of the group’s life in the early days – the over the top misogyny – while being very open about a member’s death from […]
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Is A Fun Spy Romp!
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. opens with a breathtaking chase sequence as Napoleon Solo engineers an escape from East Germany (over the Berlin Wall) for a pretty auto mechanic named Gaby – who is the daughter of a missing nuclear scientist who has just revolutionized the creation of enriched uranium. Solo has to work for the […]
Final Girl – The Most Dangerous Game Is a Girl!
Final Girl is a stripped down combination of The Most Deadly Game and a non-supernatural buffy the Vampire Slayer. It’s an odd combination and, in its minimalist way, a reasonably diverting hour-and-a-half.
Teen Lust Subverts B-Movie Tropes By Upending Them!
Teen Lust’s main character is a mostly virtuous young person who goes to church, gets good grades, generally makes the right choices and is also a virgin – which is bad if the church the family belongs to is the Church of Satan and the young person is about to turn eighteen and become a […]
She’s Funny That Way – Which Is To Say Not Funny!
A new film by Peter Bogdanovich should be cause for celebration – especially when it’s a screwball comedy. Sadly, the best thing about She’s Funny That Way is that it opens and closes on great songs: Cheek to cheek at the beginning and Steppin’ Out With My Baby (both sung by Fred Astaire) over the […]
Movie Review: Amka and The Three Golden Rules
Pakistani born Babar Ahmed not only teaches about film at Washington, DC’s George Washington University, he is an accomplished Independent Film Director/Producer in his own right. His last two efforts Genius and Royal Kill were nicely done low budget affairs. After watching his latest effort Amka and The Three Golden Rules, I’d love to see […]
Fantastic Four: Come Back, Tim Story! (Almost) All Is Forgiven!
I don’t remember the origin of the Ultimates version of the Fantastic Four being so boring. Whatever their flaws, Tim Story’s two FF movies were not boring.
The Fantastic Four Commits The Ultimate Sin of being Aggressively Mediocre!
I really want to go down as the one of the few critics in the world who loved The Fantastic Four, alas I can’t. The trailers gave me hope that even if it wasn’t going to be a real FF movie it’d at least be a decent generic YA flick. This is not the epic […]
Ricki and The Flash: A Rockin’ Heart Beats Clichés!
Ricki Rendazzo is forever stuck in a bar band/supermarket cashier world after abandoning her family to follow her rock & roll dream. The only place she’s at home is on stage – and the tragedy of the film is that she seems to be doomed to never rise above bar band notoriety.
The Gift – Not All Gifts Are Wanted!
Triple-threat Joel Edgerton has a winner with his new psychological thriller The Gift. It’s a twisty-turny low budget effort that provides some real chills a few genuine thrills and a great deal of tension.