‘Outcast’ Review: A Medieval Mess
If it’s 2015 and you’ve made a movie starring Nicolas Cage and Hayden Christensen, it’s either a parody or something went horribly wrong. While ‘Outcast’ definitely has a handful of laughs, none of th...
If it’s 2015 and you’ve made a movie starring Nicolas Cage and Hayden Christensen, it’s either a parody or something went horribly wrong. While ‘Outcast’ definitely has a handful of laughs, none of th...
In theory, a documentary about the legendary Iron Curtain Soviet hockey team should be about as niche as a movie can get. It should appeal exclusively to sports aficionados and air only on ESPN in the middle of the night where not...
Horror comedy is a fickle beast. The tonal balancing act is incredibly tricky. Tension-busting humor tends to undermine creeps and suspense, while unnerving scenes and graphic gore can suck laughs out of the room. Get the balance ...
‘Black or White’ takes on the messy issue of contemporary race relations in America. The filmmakers so desperately want this to be a Big Important Movie about Big Important Things that they forget to bother with more s...
The Found Footage genre has grown past the point of being an annoying trend and is now used as a vehicle to trot out other older genres again cheaply. That’s not necessarily good or bad, and certainly there have been and wil...
I must confess to having a soft spot for Jason Statham. Along with The Rock, he’s the last of the old-fashioned action stars. And much like Dwayne Johnson, he’s also a far better actor than his heavily accented 1980s f...
If anyone handed out awards for “Best Camel Skin Coat,” then ‘A Most Violent Year’ would sweep the category by a landside. Oscar Isaac saunters into the film early wearing the sweet garb and works it for th...
It’s really a shame about Johnny Depp. Once the most consistently electric actor of his generation, now the Deppster is a walking collection of ticks and scarves and eyeliner and desperation. At some point during the decade ...
Last year, we got a Jim Jarmusch hipster vampire movie, ‘Only Lovers Left Alive‘. Once that happened, the folks who made ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night’ must have felt a little uncomfortable. Essentially...
There was a time (let’s call it the 1990s) when erotic thrillers were all the rage. Then the internet happened and suddenly mainstream audiences didn’t need a movie with a lecherous premise, boobs and Michael Douglas...
Remember when George Lucas said that he was going to move onto making “small, personal films” after the ‘Star Wars’ trilogy, and then made ‘Howard the Duck’? Or how about when he said the same t...
‘Leviathan’ is a 2.5 hour Russian drama that’s easily one of the most depressing and miserable experiences you’ll have in a movie theater all year. And yet, I can’t recommend it enough. It’s a s...