The beginning of the 2017 New York Film Festival has finally arrived and this year the curators have managed to surprise and delight audiences with the international premiere of a movie called Bad Genius. The movie has no gore and very little violence, yet it somehow perfectly represents the type of films that thrive at […] Read more
When a sex addicted federal agent named Ponch (Michael Pena) loses credibility with his boss, he is forced to take backseat roll in an investigation involving some crooked cops. When he goes undercover as a California Highway Patrol officer to investigate, he is forced to partner up with a rookie and former motocross star John […] Read more
Praise be, the Japan Cuts 2017 line-up is here! I feel like I sound like a broken record ever time summer rolls around but, it’s the truth, this festival is a blast and I’m so stoked for this year’s line-up and guests! Why, you ask? Because one of my favorite directors, Yoshihiro Nakamura, will be in […] Read more
Movies about how great movies are often tug at an audience’s heartstrings — after all, its one reason why romantic celebrations of Hollywood like The Artist and La La Land received so much acclaim and awards gold. But it’s easy for an industry set in Hollywood to forget how much love there is for cinema […] Read more
During the 1987 NFL season, the players went on strike during Weeks 3, 4, 5 and 6. After the league cancelled the Week 3 games, teams were drawn up with players who decided not to strike, ex-players from the NFL and the then-defunct offshot United States Football League, former college standouts, and anyone who had […] Read more
If the script for Rocky had not been produced in the mid 1970s and Martin Scorsese came upon the script several years later, there’s a good chance that the movie might’ve come out like the first two-thirds of Chuck, a film about the life of Chuck Wepner, the New Jersey boxer whose 1975 world title […] Read more
A lot of people in the industry thought Disney and Marvel Studios were biting off way more than they could chew with 2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy, based on a relatively obscure cosmic superteam that includes unique characters like a gun-totting space racoon and a talking tree, especially since writer/director James Gunn had few directing […] Read more
In the beginning of The Clapper, infomercial actor Eddie Krumble (Ed Helms) walks down a Los Angeles street that is depicted with an unreal, painted quality. He passes a wall that has graffiti on it that says “Enough with Reality.” That could be the mantra to this film, directed by Dito Montiel, which looks at […] Read more
In 2010, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon teamed with filmmaker Michael Winterbottom for The Trip, a BBC series that featured the two comedians largely improvising while playing fictionalized versions of themselves on a tour of restaurants in the UK. They re-teamed in 2014 for The Trip to Italy for more hilarity, and both series were […] Read more
The first film I screened at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival was writer/director Liz W. Garcia’s One Percent More Humid. The film is a New England set, college-age drama about two childhood friends, Iris (Juno Temple) and Catherine (Julia Garner), who reunite during their summer break in order to cope with the tragic loss of […] Read more
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