Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev’s, Russia’s critically acclaimed entry into the foreign film Oscar race, titled Leviathan, focuses on Nikolai Kolya (Aleksey Serebryakov), an auto-repair shop owner with an attractive wife and a son from a prior marriage. They live in a remote fishi... Read More »
I’m sure I sound like a broken record when I say this but I’m not a big fan of musicals. There are very few that I truly like and they usually have to be very raunchy and comedic, though there are exceptions. When I sat down to screen Rob Marshall’s new film Into the Woods, I had... Read More »
Some actors have the natural ability to transition from actor to director…and some don’t. The vision one director has for a specific script can be vastly different than that of another. In my opinion, Angelina Jolie isn’t one of those actresses who has proven that she has the abi... Read More »
Big Eyes is based on the true story of Margaret Keane (Amy Adams), an artist who became known in the 1960s for dozens of paintings of big-eyed waifs, which practically created the pop art reproduction industry. However, Margaret didn’t become known as the creator of these p... Read More »
In 1974, James Caan starred in a film called The Gambler. While I never saw the film, people seemed to like it and it garnered Cann a Golden Globe nomination. Fast forward 40 years and Paramount’s bringing us a remake of the same film, this time starring a slimmed down Mark Wahlb... Read More »
This weekend sees the release of Peter Jackson’s finale in the exhausting Hobbit trilogy, titled The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. In the final installment, the Dwarves of Erebor and Bilbo have reclaimed the wealth of their homeland while also unleashing Smaug upon the h... Read More »
From acclaimed film director Ridley Scott, and bestselling author God (assisted by Adam Cooper, Tower Heist), comes the epic tale that nearly every English speaking child knows before they begin grade school – Exodus: Gods and Kings. This most recent biblically produced adaptatio... Read More »
In a world where social media is meant to connect us, there are still many flaws in the system, especially when it comes to showing actual care in the face of life’s hardest challenges. Take Care, written and directed by Liz Tuccillo (co-author of He’s Just Not That into You), br... Read More »
Back in the summer of 2011, Seth Gordon’s crime comedy Horrible Bosses made quite the splash. It was probably the best raunchy comedy of the summer which was enough of a sign that the studio decided to give the trio of terrible criminals another shot on the big screen. This week,... Read More »
This weekend, the first of two installments in the final chapter of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games franchise hits theaters and while it’ll likely blow the box office up, audience goers are going to find that they’re in for an underwhelming two hours at the cinema. The Hunger G... Read More »
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