Shane Black. Few names more accurately represent the 1990s B-movie action vibe. The mind behind?Lethal Weapon,?The Last Boy Scout,?The Last Action Hero,?The Long Kiss Goodnight,?Iron Man 3, and?The Good Guys?went back in time (not really) to provide a sequel to his best-known acting role from 1987’s Predator. Set after?Predator 2?and before?Predators, The Predator?assembles a crack…
In every spy move since, well, ever, dashing men have run through scenes, avoiding bullets and bedding buxom beauties. In the genre-tilting spy comedy?The Spy Who Dumped Me, Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon play Audrey Stockton and her best friend/roommate, Morgan Freeman, who inadvertently become drawn in to a plot where the free world is…
Fourteen years ago, Brad Bird traded his success with The Iron Giant into a big-time spin with Pixar/Disney in The Incredibles,?but since?Ratatouille, Bird has been better known for live-action direction of hits like?Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol?and?Tomorrowland. So what could move Bird out of an advising role to reveal the Incredible family in a sequel? Why…
The Nutcracker has become an established holiday tradition. Most of us know it as the ballet and its Tchaikovsky music and now, Disney is bringing forth a new incarnation of the story in The Nutcracker and the Four Realms. The credits say the film is ?suggested by the short story ?The Nutcracker and the Mouse…
Since my oldest daughter enjoys The Nightmare Before Christmas immensely, I thought it would be a nice change of pace to have her review the film. Read what she has to say!
Directed by Sanjay Rawal (Food Chains),?3100: Run and Become?follows Ashprihanal Aalto, an unassuming Finnish paperboy, and Shamita, an Austrian cellist, in their attempts to complete the?3100 Race for Self-Trancendence, the world?s longest certified footrace. Each year, a small group of competitors come from all over the world to run a distance that totals 3,100 miles…
Mid90s is not your typical coming-of-age piece. Set in 1990?s LA, it is an intricate look into the skate culture of that time. Exploring deep friendship, hardship, belonging and passion, Jonah Hill?s directorial debut is his passion project that is so much more than what you would expect it to be. Stevie (Sunny Suljic), is…
Directed by Ryan Boyko, That Never Happened?reveals the story of Canada’s first national internment operations between 1914-1920, when over 88,000 people were forced to register and more than 8,500 were wrongfully imprisoned in internment camps across Canada, not for anything they had done but because of where they came from. In 1954, the public records…
?What do you mean she?s gone?? In What They Had, Nick (Michael Shannon) opens with the phone call that every adult dreads: that their mother (Blythe Danner), Ruth?s dementia has caused her to wander into the night. As a result, Nick calls his sister, Bridget (Hilary Swank) and asks her to come home in an…
Near the beginning of this month, it was officially announced that a deal has been struck with Netflix to “develop new series and film projects based on C.S. Lewis? beloved The Chronicles of Narnia series.” It’s been a long time coming. Interestingly, this comes less than a year after Amazon’s announcement about securing a deal…
