DTLA Film Festival Journal: Josie & Jack
Sibling relationships are complicated. Josie & Jack shows an unusually stressed pair of siblings, and how they cope with the tension between life inside and outside that relationship.
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Nineties Noir: The Underneath
Sometimes, even filmmakers can be wrong about their own movies. Usually in these cases, the creators have a higher opinion of their work than anyone else does. Steven Soderbergh’s 1995 heist thriller The Underneath, however,...
’12 Strong’ Review: Pretty Weak
‘American Sniper’ wasn’t a film that I was fond of at the time, but its legacy is something that I particularly dislike. Thanks to the success of Clint Eastwood’s rousing “kill all the evil brown peop...
‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Review: Heroes with a
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have returned, possibly signaling the moment when ’90s nostalgia hits the mainstream. There’s a problem with nostalgia, though. Fond memories tend to make things seem better than they w...
Now Playing: Who Was That Masked Man?
Director Gore Verbinski borrows heavily from his animated Western ‘Rango’ and some other choice films for his latest mega-budget action adventure, ‘The Lone Ranger’. In what seems to be a project greenlit o...
Now Playing: ‘Drive Angry’ Revs My Engine
If you opened up the New York Times on Friday (or clicked through it online), you might have noticed that there was no review for ‘Drive Angry’, the new Nicolas Cage 3D spectacular about a man who drives out of hell in...
Weekend Movies: Nic Cage Drives Angry, Owen Wilson Gets a Hall Pa
Well, I really don’t like being so negative but… Here we are. This weekend gives us a couple of middling studio movies (which I haven’t seen yet, but one I will be reviewing soon). At least there’s some ind...