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Domino (2019) Review: A Losing Game of Bones

Jason Gorber — Fri, 31 May 2019 15:00:55 +0000

There are many things disheartening about Domino, a below average terrorist thriller that feels more like a misjudged TV movie than the work of an iconic director. Such has been Brian De Palma’s fall from grace, the result is a movie that can’t find theatrical distribution and is being relegated to various VOD platforms to...

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‘The Lost City of Z’ Review: An Intimate (and Somewhat Insane) Epic

Philip Brown — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 15:00:27 +0000

‘The Lost City of Z’ seemingly promises many things that we come to expect from summertime movie spectacle. It’s about an adventurer traveling deep into the jungle, uncovering cannibals, fighting off piranha attacks, and dipping into war, all the while in search of something to add meaning to life. Based on the biography of obsessive...

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‘Live by Night’ Review: Sleep by Cinema

Philip Brown — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 13:00:48 +0000

On a purely technical level, ‘Live by Night’ is probably the finest “film de Ben Affleck” to date. The period gangster melodrama is filled with beauty shots and carefully crafted costumes and eye-grabbing locations and bursts of grand violence. It’s also his sloppiest film as a storyteller, struggling to cram as much of Dennis Lehane’s...

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‘High-Rise’ Review: Twisted Anarchy

Philip Brown — Wed, 18 May 2016 19:00:10 +0000

J.G. Ballard’s disturbing dystopic novel ‘High-Rise’ almost made it to the screen a few times since the cult favorite hit stands in the 1970s. Despite having filmmakers like Nicolas Roeg behind the project, nothing ever came to fruition, and given the difficulty of the subject matter it’s easy to see why. Thankfully, the book finally...

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TIFF Journal: ‘High-Rise’

Philip Brown — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 18:00:02 +0000

In only a handful of movies, director Ben Wheatley has established himself as one of the most fascinating and unpredictable filmmakers working today. Titles like ‘Kill List’, ‘Sightseers’, and ‘A Field in England’ offer wildly different cinematic experiences that share only the director’s distinct voice. His latest feature ‘High-Rise’ is his first adapted from a...

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TIFF Journal: ‘Mississippi Grind’

Philip Brown — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 15:00:00 +0000

In just a handful of movies including ‘Half Nelson’ and ‘Sugar’, co-writers/directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck have established themselves as filmmakers dedicated to tales of fumbling outsiders. They approach these characters with care and love, but aren’t bound to presenting them as heroes or forcing their broken people into happy endings. So, it only...

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‘Unfinished Business’ Review: Also Unwanted and Unneeded

Philip Brown — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 15:00:46 +0000

Poor Vince Vaughn. At one point, he was one of the wildest and most unpredictable comedy performers in indie film. Then, for a while he managed to bring his off-kilter machine-gun rants into the mainstream with considerable success. He’s a strong screen presence and pretty damn funny when he’s on. So what the hell happened...

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‘American Sniper’ Review: Missing the Mark

Philip Brown — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 20:00:36 +0000

‘American Sniper’ isn’t a terrible movie, just a tremendously obvious one. It’s based on a true story, so the awards bait stink hangs in the air of every scene. That true story is about Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, so patriotism and celebration of warfare are built so deeply into the movie’s DNA that they even...

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An Insidious Cobra Plot – ‘G.I. Joe’ Sequel Doomed Again

Josh Zyber — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:00:54 +0000

Back in January, I posted the potential good news that Stephen Sommers had been fired from directing the sequel to his atrocious live action ‘G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra‘ movie. I speculated that – with a new director, new writers, and a complete recasting – perhaps there might be some hope for the sequel...

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