The Last Vermeer tells the story of how a former Dutch Resistance fighter-turned-investigator, Claes Bang’s Joseph Pillar, investigates painter and art dealer Han van Meegeren (Guy Pearce), who he believes aided the Nazis during World War II. In the novel by Jonathan Lopez, The Man Who Made Vermeers, the drama for the film is set…
As a child of the 1980s and 1990s, Nicholas Jarecki loved blockbusters. Back to the Future, Top Gun. As he got older, he watched old videotapes of Dog Day Afternoon and Serpico, studying the work of Quentin Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson, and later Christopher Nolan. But Jarecki?s journey to behind the camera has a…
Warner Bros. is venturing into new territory with dual in-theater and on HBO Max releases for its films this year. While there are a few that have arrived since the splash of Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman 1984 on Christmas Day, The Little Things starring Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, and Jared Leto is the second “big”…
Two films from Paramount share different viewpoints of pursuing dreams, and figuring out how to move forward. Jungleland and Dreamland both tackle the angst of a community or specific character in dealing with their frustrations. In Jungleland, Jack O’Connell and Charlie Hunnam play brothers Walter ?Lion? Kaminski and Stanley Kaminski. Lion has significant fighting skills,…
Remember that time that Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny lead the most ridiculous rag-tag team of basketball players in a game for the fate of the world? It’s hard to believe it’s been twenty-five years since Jordan and the Looney Tunes joined forces to defeat the? Nerdlucks-turned-Monstars in a game of basketball for the fate…
Honest Thief may be Liam Neeson’s most redemptive role since he played Jean Valjean. It’s not that he hasn’t played the dark angel of vengeance or been a character we rooted for, but here, he’s the kind of guy who looks back over his life and realizes that he’s made several missteps and wants to…
Love and Monsters might sound over-the-top, but it?s one of the most entertaining films of the year. It doesn?t care if you?re bogged down by a global pandemic, it wants you to know you could have it worse — you could be pursued by giant ridiculously-morphed creatures in hopes of finding your one true love.?…
In the sophomore feature of director Jim Cummings (Thunder Road), a series of vicious murders rocks a small ski town isolated from civilization. Cummings, who directs, wrote, and stars in the film about Officer John Marshall’s crumbling life, negatively impacted by the murders, his sheriff father’s poor health, his divorce, his teenage daughter, and more….
Twenty-two years ago, Wesley Snipes was on top of the world. The first successful Marvel film – sure, there was Howard the Duck and a few direct-to-video films – Blade provided the world with a black hero, and the first in a line of reasonably successful films (c’mon, they’ve taken the world by storm). Based…
J.R.R. Tolkien never imagined that his work would ever be made into moving pictures and played in spectacular visual faction thanks to the extraordinary vision of director Peter Jackson. But from 2001 (The Fellowship of the Ring) to 2014 (The Battle of the Five Armies), the director delivered a strong take on the goings-on of…
