I begrudgingly watched?another?Steve Jobs film. Seriously, was there more information to be covered, some new angle to be unveiled? As a matter of fact, there was. Thanks to Danny Boyle’s (Sunshine, 127 Hours, Slumdog Millionaire)?direction and Michael Fassbender’s nuanced performance,?Steve Jobs?is a worthy Academy Award nominee with Fassbender’s portrayal of Jobs at its center. While…
When Dennis Nash (Andrew Garfield) defaults on his mortgage payments, real estate mogul Rick Carver (Michael Shannon) takes his house. Fighting to get a set of tools back from Carver’s work crew, Nash is offered various roles that allow him to climb from gofer to righthand man. But while Carver appears to have taken ownership…
Alrighty. Let me tell y?all what you already know. $135 million in the bank in it?s first three days. Hard R rating. F-bombs, blood, sex and wanton irreverence galore. Yup. That?s Deadpool ? that career reviving, genre twisting, don?t give a darn Fox/Marvel collaboration that is the toast of early 2016. At first glance to…
I?m sure that many people head to the kitchen for dessert when the Oscar is awarded for Best Foreign Language Film. But that is one of the categories that I pay special attention to. Films that come from other countries and cultures often give us wonderful insights into the what the world is like outside our own cultural bubble.
I don’t usually do horror, but when I do … it’s Guillermo del Toro. Not all directors hit it out of the park for me every time, but del Toro does. While I didn’t?love?Hellboy, it was engaging;?Pacific Rim?and?Pan’s Labyrinth?are exquisitely visualized tales that would make James Cameron blush. And then, there’s?Crimson Peak. Centered around Edith…
With a compelling story, great acting, and fantastic visuals, The Martian is a worthy film to be considered for this year?s Best Picture nomination.
i’ve been part of the vibrant community surrounding the Souls series of video games (Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls I and II (soon to be III), and Bloodborne) for years now though they be oh, so much more, these are notoriously challenging fantasy role playing games, infamously brutal in their demands on the player as an…
Upon first glance, Mad Max: Fury Road seems out of place amongst its fellow best picture nominees. There?s no biographical dramatization, no outspoken activist star. There?s not even a subtitle in sight. But there is flame-spewing punk rock guitarist chained to a thirty-foot wall of Marshall amps on the front of a semi.?In other words:…
The last time I offered my $0.02 regarding Oscars 2016 was to defend the Academy and their choices. ?Now, it is time to look at the other side of the argument. ?But I still don?t think that the Academy in and of itself is the problem. A fellow film analyst (BTW?that?s my official title. ?I?m…
In the latest Steven Spielberg-directed thriller, Tom Hanks stars as James Donovan, an insurance lawyer who finds himself in Russia?in the middle of a spy swap. Based on the 1957 Cold War friction revolving around Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) and Gary Powers (Austin Stowell), the film ratchets up in intensity and emotion as it races…
