Alton (Jaeden Lieberher) is a special young man. He’s so special that several government organizations with a spectrum of motivations and a cult devoted to things Alton has said are hot in pursuit of Alton and his father, Roy (Michael Shannon). In writer/director Jeff Nichols’ brilliant followup to?Mud, the action occurs in bursts as the…
In?Gridlocked, David Hendrix (Dominic Purcell) gets the worst assignment ever: a community-service mandated ride along for party-happy movie star Brody Walker (Cody Hackman). Hendrix can’t get real work because of a bullet wound he’s still recovered from; Walker can’t get his life together, but his managers think that the ride along will generate public sympathy…
“My childhood room is filled with trophies like these but I haven’t won a thing in my life!”–Charlie (Nicholas Braun) Boasting a lineup that includes Bryan Cranston, Miles Teller, Anna Kendrick, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, John Cho, and John C. McGinley,?Get a Job?must be a rocking good time, right??Director Dylan Kidd’s film?can be summed up in Cranston’s…
In a world divided by race, religious credo, sexuality, politics, and more,?Zootopia?smacks us in the face with a fairy tale (or dare I say, parable?) that would’ve made the Grimm Brothers proud. We’re called to invest ourselves in the stories of these animals, and before too long, we recognize that this is a story about…
If you haven’t had the opportunity to watch, or didn’t have any?clue that they existed, the DC Super Hero Girls franchise has had a series of shorts on YouTube dating back to last year. With recent pushes in merchandise, DC is making the cautious effort to bring these superheroes to young girls, and they are…
Clive Owen plays a raggedy, older version of himself as Walt, an out-of-work, alcoholic carpenter who must fake his way to fatherhood of his eight-year-old son, Anthony (Jaeden Lieberher), for twenty-four hours. When Walt’s ex-wife (Maria Bello) and new husband (Matthew Modine) head out on retreat, Walt gets a chance to teach?his?values … in contrast…
We are all looking for something until we find it. With their typical humor and wit, the Coen Brothers have delivered a film about the quest for that thing (whatever it may be) for a cast of characters ripped out of 1951 Hollywood, with its Communists, Cold War, and economics. And, as can’t be ignored,…
I’m no war movie buff.?American Sniper?and?Zero Dark Thirty?proved to be gritty, heartrending films for me, in ways that previous war films aimed at the glory of war left me cold and unmoved. I was determined not to see?13 Hours:?The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, simply because I had no desire to revisit the purity of combat…
Written by Max Landis (Chronicle, American Ultra),?Mr. Right?takes audiences places that films like?Killers?or?Grosse Point Blank?went before: into the heart of the rom-com, only this time, there are assassins. Playing on Anna Kendrick’s good girl persona, the film follows Martha, as she rebounds from an unfaithful boyfriend into the arms of Francis (Rockwell). Somehow, Francis had…
Stop-motion artwork is tricky. We accept it for some settings, like the children’s entertainment in?Shaun of the Sheep?or in some cases, the work of Matt Stone and Trey Parker. But in the case of Charlie Kaufman’s adaptation of his own stage work,?Anomalisa, the method proves effective for conveying the mundane, miserable life of Michael Stone,…
