Based on Anthony Burgess’ novel, Stanley Kubrick’s Clockwork Orange dives into a satirical (murderous) discourse on the nature of humanity and free will. Along the way, it’ll question where a person can be forced to be good or if goodness can only be determined by the actions a person makes on their own. It’s a…

Before he was helming The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, or The Outsiders, Francis Ford Coppola began his directing career with a Psycho knock-off commissioned by Roger Corman with funds left over from Corman’s The Young Racers. The end result is a black-and-white film that shows the worst in human behavior, and grounds the story in human…

Whenever I’m asked what my favorite movies are, The Shawshank Redemption always appears in my top five. Rewatching the film again in beautifully clear 4K Ultra HD, it’s at the top of the list, a remarkable story (“Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption”) by Stephen King translated to the screen by the talented Frank Darabont (The…

In Catch the Bullet, twenty-two-year-old, veteran actor Gattlin Griffith rides in on a horse – as the villain. Alongside stars like Tom Skerritt and Jay Pickett, Griffith and his younger brother Callder share the story of a U.S. Marshal Britt MacMasters (Pickett) who returns home to find his father (Skerritt) wounded and his young son…

Ji-Yoon (Sandra Oh) is the newly-minted chair of the English Department at Pembroke University, an institution of higher learning that has struggled financially and publicly with its appearance. She is subject to Dean Paul Larson (David Morse) and in love with fellow English teacher Bill Dobson (Jay Duplass), and trying to stay on step ahead…

Sweet Girl, a Netflix thriller, stars Jason Momoa as Ray Cooper, a veteran and father who watches as his wife passes away to cancer after a medical syndicate forces a drug off of the market, and feels compelled to wage a one-man war against the corporations involved. While primarily a “standard fare” kind of film…

Let’s just get this out of the way: Reminiscence is like a mash up of Inception and Chinatown, with a mystery that seems like Robert B. Parker should’ve written it and Christopher Nolan or Zack Snyder should’ve shot it. But it stars a breathy Hugh Jackman and (ex-Luther star and Greatest Showman co-star) Rebecca Ferguson,…

With apologies to Johnny Depp, Gene Wilder is the REAL Willy Wonka. And with apologies to Wilder’s other projects, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was THE movie he was meant to make. Based on the Roald Dahl book, the film’s eccentric characters make for a beautiful eccentric story for all ages. For those who’ve…

From 1996 to 1997, Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale delivered a thirteen-issue Batman story of epic proportions. Continuing the story timeline of Batman: Year One, The Long Halloween found Batman forming an alliance with Captain James Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, in pursuit of a killer who only dispatched some of Gotham’s top baddies…

There are situations that fill a parent’s heart with dread. Their child is missing. Their child is diagnosed with an incurable disease. Their child completely rejects them. In the case of Your Honor, there is one more: their child does something criminal, evil even, and choices must be made about how to protect them. Bryan…