The Prescott?Academy breeds orphaned kids to be killer assassins in the latest take on high school,?Barely Lethal. Agent 83 (Hailee Steinfeld) breaks free from the watchful eye of her?training officer, Hardman (Samuel L. Jackson), and enrolls as an exchange student...
I'm no history expert, and certainly not an expert on Gallipoli (although the Blu-ray edition of?The Water Diviner?includes some historical special features that may enlighten you). Still,?I?do?like Russell Crowe quite a bit, and his latest film revolved around a...
Clair (Rachel Miner) is a mess. She's just struggled through a divorce settlement, her father just died, and her anxiety threatens to send her into one, continuous downward spiral of panic attacks. She's willing to drift from moment to moment, never moving forward and...
I recently caught up with Brad Coley, the writer/director of?Frank the Bastard?and a San Franciscan by way of New England. In his haunting tale of dark secrets and unresolved pain, he's wrapped a deeply spiritual exploration of life as we know it within a murder...
In The Vatican Tapes,?the upcoming horror film by Mark Neveldine (Crank,?Gamer), Father Lozano (Michael Pena) fights to save the soul of a young woman via exorcism, and realizes he may just be fighting to save the world. I caught up with Olivia Taylor Dudley, who...
Westerns, and Robert Duvall films, are in short supply these days. So I was all to eager to dive into?Wild Horses, a western film that Duvall wrote, directed, produced, and starred in with James Franco, Josh Hartnett, and Duvall's real-life wife, Luciana Duvall. What...
You either love movies about kids and their horses. Or you have no soul. [I'm kidding... sort of.] In the 1979 film directed by Carroll Ballard (based on Walter Farley's novels about the aforementioned black horse), a boy (Kelly Reno) and an Arabian stallion become as...
I was hooked by the concepts of?Self/Less?after one look at the trailer. Ben Kingsley's Damian wants to extend his earthly life, so he buys a spot in a shadowy scientific experiment where his consciousness will be transplanted into another body. He thinks he's buying...
Let's start with the basics: I find the two?Despicable Me?films to be laugh out loud funny. I think Steve Carell is great as Gru, and I think that there is comic genius in the idea of a villain fighting hard to be bad against the unassailable forces of three loving...