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Weekend Roundtable: From Indie to Payday

Josh Zyber — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 18:00:03 +0000

After her Oscar win for Room, Brie Larson jumped right into the gargantuan Kong: Skull Island and is now headlining a mega-budget Marvel superhero flick. Our Roundtable this week looks at other actors who’ve made the leap from indie acclaim to blockbuster stardom. David Krauss Though opportunities for black actresses are growing (it’s about frickin’...

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‘Sicario: Day of the Soldado’ Review: Una Continuación Satisfactoria

Jason Gorber — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 19:00:16 +0000

It was inevitable that ‘Sicario: Day of the Soldado’ would pale in comparison to the masterpiece it’s a sequel to. Under the direction of Stefano Sollima (best known for helping translate ‘Gomorrah’ to a TV series), the follow-up focuses on a new kind of war of terror, taking the hitman storyline into new and even...

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‘Deadpool 2’ Belated Review: Wade on In, the Water’s Fine

Deirdre Crimmins — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 16:00:13 +0000

‘Deadpool 2’ is the rare but welcome sequel that not only lives up to expectations, but does so by not completely rehashing the first film. Let’s be clear, there is plenty of rehashing. ‘Deadpool 2’ opens in a similar style to the first movie. Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) is sitting atop an apartment’s worth of fuel...

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‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Review: The Dark Is Rising

Jason Gorber — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 22:00:30 +0000

It’s been a long ride bringing us to ‘Avengers: Infinity War’. A dozen or so films have served as puzzle pieces leading us here, with disparate characters from all over the galaxy uniting to confront the baddie of all baddies, Thanos. I’ll say straight up that for this non-obsessive (about this comic book stuff, at...

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‘Only the Brave’ Review: Firefighter Drama Not Quite a Blazing Success

Philip Brown — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 12:00:34 +0000

There’s a fine line between a contemporary movie harkening back to old-fashioned entertainment and feeling dated. ‘Only the Brave’ walks that tightrope and slips over to the latter side more often than not. The film wants to be a Howard Hawks-ian ode to the poetry of likable men under dire circumstances. Fair enough. However, this...

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‘Hail, Caesar!’ Review: A Very Coen Goof

Philip Brown — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 20:00:38 +0000

The thing about the Coen brothers is that no matter strange, dark and personal their movies get, they also still enjoy a good laugh. Their latest film. ‘Hail, Caesar!’, comes after three fairly ambitious pictures that wrestled with some hefty themes. This time, the brothers merely hint at intellectual ambitions. This movie is a goof,...

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Contest: Win ‘Everest’ on Blu-ray!

Josh Zyber — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 18:45:25 +0000

It’s time for our first contest of 2016, and I think we’ve lined up a pretty interesting flick to give away. Enter now for your chance to win the nature survival thriller ‘Everest‘ on Blu-ray. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Jason Clarke and Josh Brolin, the film tells the harrowing true story of the ill-fated 1996 expedition...

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‘Sicario’ Review: Blunt Force

Philip Brown — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 13:00:28 +0000

Bleak, vicious and unrelenting, ‘Sicario’ is a Hollywood thriller by which all other entries in the genre should be measured this year. It’s proof that artful, socially conscious films can still qualify as mainstream entertainment with plenty of white-knuckle excitement. Director Denis Villeneuve’s latest feature just might be his best. The Montreal maverick behind such...

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‘Everest’ Review: Such Great Heights

Luke Hickman — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 13:00:37 +0000

The mountaineering sport is not new to feature films. Amongst others, we’ve seen it in the action-thriller ‘Cliffhanger‘ and in the drama ‘Vertical Limit‘. Telling the true story of a tragic guided expedition to the peak of the largest mountain on Earth, with a minimal amount of sensationalizing, ‘Everest’ achieves the spectacle, tension and quality...

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TIFF Journal: ‘Sicario’

Philip Brown — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 18:00:49 +0000

A brutal, brilliant and culturally relevant thriller, Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Sicario’ announces itself with a punch to the gut of cinematic bravado. Roger Deakins’ evocative and immaculate camerawork pulls the audience toward a drug house on the Mexican border that a task force literally crashes into. At first, it seems like the location might be a...

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‘Inherent Vice’ Review: A Hazy Noir Masterpiece

Philip Brown — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 20:00:29 +0000

Set in early 1970s Los Angeles and very much indebted to the auteur-driven masterpieces that came out of Hollywood in that era, ‘Inherent Vice’ is a stoner detective art film. You might even be tempted to call it the first of its kind, were it not for the fact that Robert Altman’s ‘The Long Goodbye’...

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SteelBook Alert: A Long Bad Night with Eva Green Is Probably Still a Pretty Good Night

Josh Zyber — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:00:10 +0000

Robert Rodriguez’s long-awaited sequel to his cult hit ‘Sin City’ was expected to be a big blockbuster this summer. Unfortunately, the movie wound up fizzling at the box office. Hoping that fanboy audiences will feel compelled to buy it on Blu-ray anyway, the film’s distributors have prepared several collectible SteelBook options. USA Available at: Best...

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