A remake of 1977’s film of the same name,?Pete’s Dragon?tells of a young boy (Oakes Fegley) who grows up in the forest without any human contact after his parents are killed in a car crash. Thankfully, he’s protected by a powerful ally – Elliott the Dragon. Written and directed by David Lowery, the film has…
The neo-Western?Hell or High Water?is one of the funniest, saddest, most exciting, thought-provoking films I’ve seen this year. Wrapped around the story of two brothers’ attempts to rob banks, this wildly different film shares their relationship, the saga of the nearly-retired Texas Ranger?on their heels, and the way that the U.S. economy plays a part…
This isn?t about being pro-war. The war is happening. This is about being pro-money.–Efraim In his latest film,?The Hangover?trilogy director Todd Philips dramatizes the unlikely rise of Efraim Diveroli (Jonah Hill) and David Packouz (Miles Teller), who found loopholes in the military’s use of privately-owned weapons to build a gun-running empire. As international arms dealers,…
Burt Kennedy, the director behind?Support Your Local Sheriff!?and a host of others (including?Suburban Commando), delivered Raquel Welch in the titular role of Hannie Caulder. Caulder is the victim first – as she watches her husband murdered, her ranch torched, and her body left broken and for dead – before she becomes the force of vigilante…
Marlon Brando directed one film, One-Eyed Jacks. The short version: in 1961, he adapted Guy Trosper’s (The Pride of St. Louis) script into a film that he largely shaped in his own way, with cinematographer Charles Lang nominated for an Academy Award (after Stanley Kubrick and Sam Peckinpah were removed from their respective roles). The…
Finding Dory served up a sequel/spinoff of the world that Nemo inhabited, with Ellen DeGeneres’ squeaky regal blue tang heading off in search of the family she had long forgotten about. With the help of Nemo and his dad Marlin, as well as a new cast of characters including the near-sighted whale Destiny, the echo-location-free…
“The past is already written. Stay too long where you don?t belong and you will never return.”– Three-Eyed Raven The sixth season of HBO’s?Game of Thrones?has received critical renown (winning twelve of its twenty-three nominations for Emmys) and grown the fan base that watches each episode. Combining original material with elements of two previously written…
Paul Schrader wrote/co-wrote Raging Bull, Last Temptation of Christ, Taxi Driver, and Bringing Out the Dead, films directed by Martin Scorsese. But with Dog Eat Dog, Schrader directs an eclectic cast that serves up a weirdly engaging film based on Edward Bunker?s 1995 novel. Unfortunately, Schrader didn’t write this – and it doesn’t come close…
When Curtis Gentry (Craig Robinson) relocates to Germany to get a new job, while still recovering from the death of his wife, the culture shock reverberates through his whole system. That system primarily includes Mo (Markees Christmas), his thirteen-year-old son who believes he will become the next big rapper … but now finds himself struggling…
Adam West was the first ‘famous’ person I ever interacted with, as a twelve-year-old stammering my way up for an autograph. He signed my 1980s era edition of a Batman comic and we watched the feature-length film that he and Burt Ward filmed, 1966’s Batman: the Movie. It was glorious, but the world has moved…
