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…
“Moms don’t quit. Quitting is for dads!” That’s basically the summation of the latest raunchy comedy wrapped around a message about independence, freedom, and friendship. For everyone who ever wished there was an?Old School?or a?Bridesmaids for moms, the minds behind?The Hangover?deliver… Bad Moms. Interestingly enough,?Bad Moms?is the story delivered by writer/directors Jon Lucas and Scott…
Call it the potato chip effect. If one is delicious, fifty must be amazing. Or maybe you could label it the exercise effect.? If running three miles is healthy, running fifty must be exponentially more invigorating. And you could most certainly call it the horror movie effect. If the first one was good, the…
The Unspoken is making it to theaters and VOD just before Halloween. It is a run-of-the-mill horror film.
Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman are the creators of?Catfish, as well as two?Paranormal Activity?films. In their latest,?Nerve, they return to the world of social commentary and criticism of our society’s obsession with social media. Vee (Emma Roberts) is a high school senior who can’t bring herself to tell her mother that she wants to leave…
When the principal (Bill Murray) of North Jackson High retires to take care of his ailing wife, his two vice principals attempt to fill the power vacuum. But for the students of NJHS, this could be an absolute disaster because these two men are train wrecks. On one side, the rule-oriented Neil Gamby (Danny McBride)…
What does it mean to be homeless, a refugee, and struggling to find a way to righteousness in a strange land? In A Stray Adan (Barkhad Abdirahman) is a young Somali immigrant in Minneapolis.
