One of the things I look forward to most is laying out the films to highlight in the fall. Sure, the summer film preview is a blast - it's usually full of grand, action-packed adventures - but it's nothing like the various thoughtful features that emerge when the kids...
In a creepy, surreal thriller directed by?Michael Polish (Astronaut Farmer, 90 Minutes From Heaven), a man awakens after a car accident to find himself without memories and locked in a house by a woman who demands he provide her with a child. Wes Bentley (Hunger...
In the inaugural indie thriller by Tyler Shields, a pack of young men spend their Saturday nights chasing young women through the woods for sport. The men think that they're dominant, that they have a right to pursue these women [can you hear the contemporary societal...
The sky might be big and blue, but that's not looking like a plus. Hazel (Bella Thorne) has problems. She's agoraphobic (fearing wide-open spaces?and?lots of people). Her father and mother, Dee (Kyra Sedgwick), are in a nasty divorce process. If that isn't enough, two...
Hot Pursuit?is?not?a film based on the hit arcade game, but rather an odd couple comedy starring the mismatched talents/sizes/appearances of Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara. In a film that certainly doesn't hit the high comedy notes that one might expect (or want)...
The fifth film in Jackie Chan's?Police Story?series finds?Police Captain Zhong Wen (Jackie Chan) struggling to connect with his daughter Miao (Jing Tian). For the first time in ...years, he's reconnecting with her at a club run by her fianc?,?Wu Jiang (Liu Ye)....
In FOX's?True Story, Jonah Hill and James Franco go sifting through the truth and lies of stolen identity, but this isn't a light-hearted look at someone messing with your credit scores. No, this is a film based on the real-life biopic of Michael Finkel (Hill), who...
As Warner Brothers prepares for the impending?The Man From U.N.C.L.E.?feature film starring Henry Cavill and Arnie Hammer, the first season of the black & white television show arrives on DVD. Robert Vaughn and David McCallum star in the roles that Cavill and...
Cole Claasen and I caught up in between his Master of Fine Arts classes at Western State University of Colorado. Claasen is studying filmmaking so that he can be a better screenwriter, but also so he can teach others at the college level how they can tell their...