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 call... 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... 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 receiv... 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... 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 ou... 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 cosmi... 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 graffi... 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 ver... 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 childho... Read more
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. The... Read more
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