Love the Coopers?isn’t a great film but it has its moments. An ensemble tale revolving around Christmas and the breaking down of the parental relationship within the Cooper family, the film puts the pieces together in a way that provides a few laughs and some serious soul searching. The audience’s appreciation will be directly related…
Based on the British series?MI-5, the feature-length film?MI-5?(or?Spooks: The Greater Good) tells the story of how head Harry Pearce (Peter Firth) works to uncover who is imploding his agency from the inside. After a terrorist (Scorpion’s?Elyes Gabel) escapes, the heat is turned up on MI-5 and Pearce fakes his death to go looking for him….
Southbound is an anthology of five loosely related horror stories, each from different directors and writing teams. Some of the films have a bit of a Twilight Zone feel to them.
Upon first glance, Mad Max: Fury Road seems out of place amongst its fellow best picture nominees. There?s no biographical dramatization, no outspoken activist star. There?s not even a subtitle in sight. But there is flame-spewing punk rock guitarist chained to a thirty-foot wall of Marshall amps on the front of a semi.?In other words:…
In the latest Steven Spielberg-directed thriller, Tom Hanks stars as James Donovan, an insurance lawyer who finds himself in Russia?in the middle of a spy swap. Based on the 1957 Cold War friction revolving around Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) and Gary Powers (Austin Stowell), the film ratchets up in intensity and emotion as it races…
This week’s offerings include:?Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs, Our Brand is Crisis, Rocking the Kasbah, The Last Witch Hunter, Batman: Bad Blood, Freeheld, The Assassin, Man Up, and?Meadowland. Our Brand is Crisis?(Warner Bros.) Sandra Bullock has never looked so bad – even in?28 Days!?As Calamity Jane Bodine, she is drawn out of retirement…
Straight Outta Compton was an opportunity for me to reflect on?my?identity, which includes: – being a huge NWA fan as a teen – now being?40 – feeling the need to purchase two cans of a particular brand of malt liquor to view?the movie with, cuz, you know, 8-ball – only drinking one of those cans…
What is the cost of infidelity within a marriage? Should it just be assumed that a man will wander? What about a woman? In the Shadow of Women takes a look at such questions in the lives of a young couple.
Anyone following the latest round of Presidential endorsements can attest: politics makes strange bedfellows. Apparently, so does filmmaking (think Clint Eastwood/Jim Carrey in The Deadpool, director Leonard Nimoy/Ted Danson, Tom Selleck/Steve Guttenberg in Three Men and a Baby, Wes Anderson and anyone in anything). But such funky pairings aren’t limited to action flicks or rom-coms;…
The short documentaries often are very personal stories that allow us to see important issues. The nominees this year introduce us to people who have serious struggles yet have managed to move beyond the struggles to find some meaning or happiness.
