The Forger is, as they say, in select theaters and on VOD beginning today. It’s a variation on a story we’ve seen before – an ex-con is manipulated into doing one more job. In this case, the ex-con is an art forger and the manipulation is the favor he owes the man who gets him […]
Category: Movie Reviews
Unfriended: The Ultimate Cyberstalker!
On the anniversary of Laura Barns’ suicide, several of her friends are skyping online when they notice a curious, anonymous participant logged into their call. One of them receives a text – allegedly from Laura – and things get real weird, real quick. If you’re not comfortable with texting, Facebook and Skype – and not […]
Movie Review: Black Souls
Italian film Director Francesco Munzi takes on the topic of systematic and familiar violence in his latest film Black Souls; A story that shows that one small act of rebellion and criminal behavior can have far ranging consequences that go beyond it’s original act. The film is also quietly contemplative, as you know things are […]
True Story: A Distillation of Evil From A Slight Remove!
True Story is, oddly enough, based on a true story – Christian Longo murdered his family and disappeared. When he was captured, in Mexico, he was posing as a journalist named Mike Finkel. Mike Finkel was a New York Times reporter who was fired for fabricating the subject of an important story – and became […]
Danny Collins – One Hit Wonder Wonders!
Danny Collins is a little movie with a big heart. The titular Danny Collins is a 70-something ex-rocker doing arena tours in which he performs his big hits for audiences of screaming middle-aged and senior citizen sufferers of nostalgia – but things might have been so much better if he’d only gotten the letter John […]
Movie Review: Furious 7 Goes Out on a High Note and Makes Michelle Cry Like a Baby!
Let me start this review as though I’m at an AA meeting. Hello, my name is Michelle and I’ve never saw the first four Fast and Furious movies. Welcome Michelle, you are in a safe place… With that out of the way I say “Franchise,” I define it as from Fast Five onward…. Ok? Furious […]
Furious 7: PHYSICS? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Physics!
If you go into Furious 7 without expected the laws of physics to be ignored, you’re in the wrong theater. Aided by an incredibly gifted stunt choreographing team and CG that are invisible/seamless, you will see cars fly (sort of) her. You will also see a man suffering from ‘a shattered collarbone’ shrug off that […]
Home Is Where The Boov Are!
Last year, a short entitled Almost Home featured an alien race called the Boov and their attempts to find a new home after fleeing the evil Gorg. After a series of interplanetary mishaps, the short ended with them arriving at Earth. In Home, the Boov invade and relocate all humans to Australia where they live […]
It Follows – The Ultimate Stalker Or The Ultimate STD?
In a unique bit of inspiration, teens having sex leads directly to their deaths – but it’s not a girls only club. It is an equal opportunity stalker/slayer. It Follows owes something to John Carpenter – especially Halloween – but establishes its own identity almost immediately. This is the creepiest, most disturbing and certainly scariest […]
Get Hard – Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart Are The Mutt & Jeff Of Vulgarity!
I’m not sure which is funnier – the fact that so many people seem completely unaware that Get Hard is not only not objectionable (at least not for being racist or homophobic), it’s taking the mickey out of racists and homophobes; or that it’s a very funny movie.
Last Knights: Mission: Impossible Gets Medieval!
Last Knights is Kaz I Kiriya’s third film – his first in English – following the cult classic/live-action version of manga/anime series Casshern, and martial arts oddity Goemon. It is a tale of honor, love and loyalty set in a medieval culture reminiscent of Kiriya’s native Japan, but truly diverse – citizens of all races […]