The Tribeca Film Festival is here and while this may not be the first film I’ve seen at this year’s fest, it is the first review I’ve written to kick-off my yearly coverage. There is quite the variety at this year’s festival but I immediately gravitated towards Sambá because it hails from the Dominican Republic […] Read more
Family is a sticky subject to tackle on film, inspiring a certain kind of love story. There’s baggage, there’s struggle, there are extenuating circumstances, but let’s not forget that there’s also hope. Gifted is a movie that does not apologize for the ugliness of family life—the losses we experience and the conflicts we face—while also […] Read more
From popular action auteur Johnnie To comes a new crime thriller called Three (San ren xing), starring Louis Koo, Zhao Wei, and Wallace Chung. Set predominantly in the emergency room in a hospital, Three centers on, well, three individuals: a criminal, a cop, and a surgeon. When a police operation goes sour, it results in […] Read more
Out today on iTunes, Blu-ray, and DVD is Other Madnesses, a film Movie Buzzers had the pleasure to watch at 2015’s First Time Fest. Other Madnesses was directed by first-time director Jeremy Carr and was featured in numerous film festivals. Other Madnesses is an atmospheric and sometimes surreal meander through the nightmarish neon glow of […] Read more
In American movies it’s pretty much the good guys versus the bad guys – the heroes manageable flaws not withstanding. So when the drama takes into account real events you must watch it through that prism and when you add in Oliver Stone…. The Oscar winning director establishes Edward Snowden’s patriotic sentiments and unending desire […] Read more
When it was released, The Lego Movie took the world by storm. No one expected a movie about colored bricks to be so hilarious, crowd-pleasing and original, that’s why it made it on to so many “best of” lists despite being majorly snubbed at the Oscars. While a sequel is on the way, there are […] Read more
Come and Find Me begins rather cryptically as Aaron Paul appears to be blatantly following Annabelle Wallis right back to her apartment and into her home. As it turns out, David and Claire are only playing along and the joke is on us as they reveal their idyllic relationship to each other. However, the metaphor […] Read more
Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín doesn’t have a ton of experience as a director, but of the seven films he has directed, the most recent four have been critically praised. His film NO was nominated for an Academy Award and there’s a chance he’ll get another one with Neruda this year. But his latest film and […] Read more
This review is a repost of our original review from November 4. It does include an additional review section for the Blu-ray release of the film. Yeon Sang-ho’s (The King of Pigs) critically hailed zombie horror thriller, Train to Busan, is returning to theaters in the US this weekend. For those unfamiliar with the film, […] Read more
Today, the XFL might be thought of as a footnote in the history of televised professional sports — or, if you’re less forgiving, thought of as a punchline — but as a teenager in 2001 (as I was) the idea of a football league that would feature violent play and scantily-clad cheerleaders seemed like the […] Read more
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