Written by Max Landis (Chronicle, American Ultra),?Mr. Right?takes audiences places that films like?Killers?or?Grosse Point Blank?went before: into the heart of the rom-com, only this time, there are assassins. Playing on Anna Kendrick’s good girl persona, the film follows Martha, as she rebounds from an unfaithful boyfriend into the arms of Francis (Rockwell). Somehow, Francis had…
Stop-motion artwork is tricky. We accept it for some settings, like the children’s entertainment in?Shaun of the Sheep?or in some cases, the work of Matt Stone and Trey Parker. But in the case of Charlie Kaufman’s adaptation of his own stage work,?Anomalisa, the method proves effective for conveying the mundane, miserable life of Michael Stone,…
In the chaos of battle mistakes can be made. Oscar-nominated A War looks at some of the consequences of such mistakes on a very personal level.
The latest hit from HBO isn’t an ensemble power play. Yes, it’s an ensemble show, but the power of this show is Bobby Cannavale’s American Century record executive Richie Finestra. Finestra is a force of nature who cares about his company – and music – in a way that he is begging his team of…
There used to be a time when ghosts weren’t so touchy-feely. ?Barring Scooby and Shaggy’s weekly paranormal impostors, ghosts, for the most part, seemed rather harmless. ?Sure, they were like creepsville, daddy-o and sometimes they may have even bumped you around in the night (think 13 Ghosts, or the Vincent Price classic, Tales of Terror),…
On the one hand, [the film] shares information for a medical treatment that could provide great benefit to people suffering many terrible illnesses. On the other hand, I can?t say it is not an infomercial for snake oil.
The YA feel of the film comes from the themes that seem to crop up in adolescent stories, such as mortality (it is a time when young people first truly experience the reality of death), freedom and rules, and family and self. All of those themes play out in Morgan and Jordan?s time together, but not always as we think they will.
It’s been awhile since Gerard Butler nailed his name to the blockbuster wall with?300. But in between making?Fallen?films about terrorists in the U.S. and London, he starred in the ensemble piece,?Gods of Egypt,?about the brotherly rivalry of the Egyptian gods Set (Butler) and Osiris (Bryan Brown), and the young passion of the human thief, Bek…
If the first season of?True Detective?had found itself in Los Angeles, it might have become?Triple 9. In a nearly two-hour heist flick, Australian director John Hillcoat (Lawless,?The Proposition) moves around A-list actors like chess pieces. Yes, we’ve seen a group of police officers cross over to the dark side of criminality before, but we’ve never…
Fifteen years ago, Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson delivered?Zoolander, a film that ridiculously satires our thoughts on beauty, modeling, and humanitarian inclinations. It was dumb – but it seemed to be dumb on purpose. In fact, it was critically and commercially a success! But fifteen years later,?Zoolander No. 2?comes across much like the signs that…
