Off of the coast of Cape Cod in 1952, two oil tankers were split in half by a giant storm, but only one of them had a chance to send out an S.O.S. As the main Coast Guard unit worked to rescue those on the first ship, SS Fort Mercer, a handful of men left the Chatham,...
In?Synchronicity, super-smart physicist Jim Beale (Chad McKnight) figures out how to achieve time travel - at least as far as flowers like a rare kind of dahlia are concerned. Still, as smart as Beale is with a computer and lab equipment, he's oblivious to the chink...
I had a surreal experience in August. I left the theater for?Straight Outta Compton?momentarily, to discuss?Captive?with David Oyelowo... and ended up discussing race, violence, and Jesus Christ with a black man from England. I returned to?Compton?moments later, and...
The Revenant?cleaned up at the Golden Globes - Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor in a Film Not in Matt Damon's category. [Okay, I made that last category up... sort of.] But the truth is that while director?Alejandro Gonz?lez I??rritu's latest film (he's the...
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!--Sir Walter Scott In the second season of HBO's hit television series,?True Detective, the all-new cast tackles a case full of nooks and crannies wrapped around the morale that "we get the world that we...
Ben Whittaker (Robert De Niro) takes on an internship at Jules Ostin's (Anne Hathaway) startup company as a seventy-year-old. His life has fallen into the routine (read: boring) since his wife died, and his career as an executive for a telephone directory company is...
The coming-of-age high school comedy gets mashed up with the zombie onslaught in Christopher B. Landon's (Paranormal Activity,?Disturbia) latest horror flick. Though,?in?Scouts Guide to the Apocalypse, the zombies are just the backdrop for an overarching story about...
In 2012, Prapas Cholsaranont directed a 3D animation movie called Yak the Giant King based on the Thai animation film Ramayana about two robots on opposite sides of a conflict which lacks any purpose that they can remember. In 2015, Lionsgate re-released the film with...
Streak (Louisa Krause) is down to her last chance. She's taken the night shift as a security guard for an abandoned building in hopes that she can earn the cash (and job stability) to take care of her young son. But during her first night on the job, Streak's...