Paul Schrader wrote/co-wrote Raging Bull, Last Temptation of Christ, Taxi Driver, and Bringing Out the Dead, films directed by Martin Scorsese. But with Dog Eat Dog, Schrader directs an eclectic cast that serves up a weirdly engaging film based on Edward Bunker?s 1995 novel. Unfortunately, Schrader didn’t write this – and it doesn’t come close…
The film should be viewed as a spoof and homage to 1960s sexploitation fare. When Elaine first tells us of her understanding of how to win a man?s love, she sounds like something out of The Stepford Wives or the Playboy Philosophy.
This is a bit of history that will soon be relegated to a time beyond the memory of the living. As such, this film adds perhaps one last time for the story to be heard from some who lived it.
When Curtis Gentry (Craig Robinson) relocates to Germany to get a new job, while still recovering from the death of his wife, the culture shock reverberates through his whole system. That system primarily includes Mo (Markees Christmas), his thirteen-year-old son who believes he will become the next big rapper … but now finds himself struggling…
?You?ve spent your whole life looking through a key hole.? ? The Ancient One When Robert Downey Jr. first brought Tony Stark to life in 2008?s Iron Man, none of us had any idea that we would be this far down the proverbial Marvel ?rabbit hole? at this point. A mere eight years later, we…
The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) expands once again with the addition of Dr. Stephen Strange. Dr. Strange brings us to a world of magic within the MCU that has been hinted at?but never actually seen. Although we’ve heard his name before?(Captain America: Winter Soldier), Stephen Strange had?never been featured onscreen and now,?finally, he makes his…
Adam West was the first ‘famous’ person I ever interacted with, as a twelve-year-old stammering my way up for an autograph. He signed my 1980s era edition of a Batman comic and we watched the feature-length film that he and Burt Ward filmed, 1966’s Batman: the Movie. It was glorious, but the world has moved…
In?Sea of Trees, the real-life Japanese forest at the base of Mount Fuji (Aokigahara) proves to be as much of a character in the story Gus Van Sant tells. Arthur Brennan (Matthew McConaughey) is a man adrift, prepared to kill himself in the Aokigahara as he mourns his wife (Naomi Watts). But when he meets…
The third installment in the J.J. Abrams-rebooted?Star Trek?series,?Beyond?takes us farther than the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise believes it has gone before. The film has remarkable panache – thanks to a top flight class – and a storyline about authority, power, calling, and friendship that wraps itself around a galactic struggle. While considering a promotion/retirement…
In Imperium, Daniel Radcliffe’s FBI agent Nate Foster traces some Caesium-137 (a deadly substance used in dirty bombs) to Hopewell, Virginia. Radcliffe’s transformation from nerdy analyst who gently gets through to a jihadist, to race-baiting skin head is exemplary acting. But this is not for the faint of heart – and Harry Potter fans will…
