It seems like Hollywood delivers us at least one big-name gangster film a year. With A Most Violent Year, writer/director J.C. Chandor has made one of the most un-gangster gangster films in... Read more
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... 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 the... 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 m... 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 re... 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 Param... 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 an... 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 b... 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... Read more
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