?Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters? ? Goya Dr. Rich Freeman (Santino Fontana), an aspiring and well-liked psychology professor, pursues a sleep study with a focus on nightmares, dreams, and sleep paralysis ? the success of which would result in a lucrative grant.??As the line between dreams and reality blur, a member of the…
There is an old gospel song, ?This world is not my home, I?m just a-passing through?. A bit of that sense of temporariness is what we find in Transit from German director Christian Penzold. There are various aspects of this film that may leave us a bit off-balance, but that just adds to the depth…
?There is nothing more dangerous for a warrior than emotion.? (Yon-Rogg) A new superhero comes to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Captain Marvel brings us the MCU?s first woman superhero, a soldier in the midst of an intergalactic war who ends up on earth and becomes ground zero for that war. Ah, but all may not…
If you missed 2017?s Happy Death Day, we can?t really help you. So much of the fun is in the surprises that it would be a disservice to ruin the journey for you (which, ironically, makes reviewing the sequel all the more challenging). But here?s what you need to know. In the first film, the…
Michael Cimino, of?The Deer Hunter?fame and?Heaven’s Gate?notoriety, shoots the gap between his Oscar wins for the first and the derision of his work for the second in Mickey Rourke’s?The Year of the Dragon. While Rourke had collaborations with Steven Spielberg (1941), Lawrence Kasdan (Body Heat), Barry Levinson (Diner), and Francis Ford Coppola (Rumble Fish) under…
Before?SWAT, Hawaii Five-O, MacGuyver, Lethal Weapon,?and?Magnum P.I.?were remade as television dramas, studios seemed fascinated with remaking old television shows into slightly more offbeat films. In between films like I, Spy,?and later films like?The A-Team?and?21 Jump Street,?Starsky & Hutch?took the old 1970s buddy cop show and twisted it, hard. Thanks to Warner Archive Collection, the Blu-ray…
Sean Anders and his wife adopted children cross-culturally, undertaking a more difficult task than making audiences laugh with?We are the Millers, She’s Out of My League,?and the?Daddy’s Home?films. Thanks to the success he had writing and directing those other films, Paramount Pictures’ greenlit Anders’ more intimate project,?Instant Family. Here, Anders told his story, and the…
In the second installment of the?Creed?saga or the seventh chapter in the?Rocky?series, depending on your perspective, Sylvester Stallone’s script finds Michael B. Jordan’s Adonis Creed wrestling with fatherhood, marriage, and the ghosts of the past, namely?Florian “Big Nasty” Munteanu’s Viktor Drago. Drago is of course the son of Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren), the fighter who…
Dr Don Shirley (Oscar winner Mahershala Ali) is a world-class African-American pianist, who is about to embark on a concert tour in the Deep South in 1962. In need of a driver and protection, Shirley recruits ‘Tony Lip’ Vallelonga (Viggo Mortensen), a tough-talking bouncer from an Italian-American neighbourhood in the Bronx. Despite their differences, the…
Have you ever experienced a movie that resonated with you days after viewing and, in spite of your best efforts, you find that you simply can?t articulate your feelings right away? If you have, then you?ll understand why it has taken me a week after viewing How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World to…
