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Pet Sematary, the second adaptation of Stephen King’s beloved horror tragedy, is a tough nut to crack. Directors Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer triumph in the department of verisimilitude in tackling the unnerving subject matter of the 1983 novel. With credit to its themes of death and resurrection, this...
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If it wasn’t for a check-in guy who thought he was the pompous receptionist that David Spade used to play on Saturday Night Live, you wouldn’t be reading this review of Anna and the Apocalypse. Luckily, I was able to get in on account of a friendly box office...
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“I’m not interested in what I know,” Nicole Kidman said of her near four-decade career in acting. “I’m interested in what I don’t know.” In conversation with Vanity Fair’s Krista Smith at this year’s AFI Fest, Kidman dominated the conversation with her years of wisdom. She is rare among...
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Izzy Klein has (barely) graduated from college, broken up (sorta) with her boyfriend, and is stranded in New York City with a bad case of pre-real-world millennial-itis. Unsure of what the next step is, her movie star little sister Sabrina convinces her to move back home to Los Angeles...
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One of America’s foremost filmmakers, Kelly Reichardt (Wendy and Lucy, Meek’s Cutoff) directs a remarkable ensemble cast led by Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern and newcomer Lily Gladstone in this stirring look at four women striving to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer (Dern)...
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FROM THE BACK OF THE BOX: American Made Movie looks back on the glory days of U.S. manufacturing when there was a more balanced relationship between the goods produced and consumed, and illustrates how technology and globalization have changed the competitive landscape for companies doing business in...
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Director: James Bobin Writers: James Bobin and Nicholas Stoller Cast: Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey, Ty Burrell and the Muppets Studio: Disney “Muppets Most Wanted” tries to continue that level of creativity set forth in “The Muppets”. However, it falls into the same traps that befell “The Great Muppet Caper”....
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Directors: John Lundberg, Mark Pilkington, Roland Denning and Kypros Kyprianou Writer: Mark Pilkington Cast: Rick Doty, Greg Bishop and more A Word About Yekra Yekra Player Yekra is a revolutionary new distribution network for feature films. Mirage Men How the US government created a myth that took over...
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Director: Scott Waugh Writers: George Gatins and John Gatins Cast: Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper, Michael Keaton, Imogen Poots and Scott Mescudi Studio: Dreamworks/Touchstone “Need for Speed” was what I expected. A limp adaptation of a video game that never knew what it wanted to be in between installments. While...
Pet Sematary, the second adaptation of Stephen King’s beloved horror tragedy, is a tough nut to crack. Directors Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer triumph in the department of verisimilitude in tackling the unnerving subject matter of the 1983 novel. With credit to its themes of death and resurrection, this...
If it wasn’t for a check-in guy who thought he was the pompous receptionist that David Spade used to play on Saturday Night Live, you wouldn’t be reading this review of Anna and the Apocalypse. Luckily, I was able to get in on account of a friendly box office...
“I’m not interested in what I know,” Nicole Kidman said of her near four-decade career in acting. “I’m interested in what I don’t know.” In conversation with Vanity Fair’s Krista Smith at this year’s AFI Fest, Kidman dominated the conversation with her years of wisdom. She is rare among...
Izzy Klein has (barely) graduated from college, broken up (sorta) with her boyfriend, and is stranded in New York City with a bad case of pre-real-world millennial-itis. Unsure of what the next step is, her movie star little sister Sabrina convinces her to move back home to Los Angeles...
One of America’s foremost filmmakers, Kelly Reichardt (Wendy and Lucy, Meek’s Cutoff) directs a remarkable ensemble cast led by Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern and newcomer Lily Gladstone in this stirring look at four women striving to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer (Dern)...
FROM THE BACK OF THE BOX: American Made Movie looks back on the glory days of U.S. manufacturing when there was a more balanced relationship between the goods produced and consumed, and illustrates how technology and globalization have changed the competitive landscape for companies doing business in...
Director: James Bobin Writers: James Bobin and Nicholas Stoller Cast: Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey, Ty Burrell and the Muppets Studio: Disney “Muppets Most Wanted” tries to continue that level of creativity set forth in “The Muppets”. However, it falls into the same traps that befell “The Great Muppet Caper”....
Directors: John Lundberg, Mark Pilkington, Roland Denning and Kypros Kyprianou Writer: Mark Pilkington Cast: Rick Doty, Greg Bishop and more A Word About Yekra Yekra Player Yekra is a revolutionary new distribution network for feature films. Mirage Men How the US government created a myth that took over...
Director: Scott Waugh Writers: George Gatins and John Gatins Cast: Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper, Michael Keaton, Imogen Poots and Scott Mescudi Studio: Dreamworks/Touchstone “Need for Speed” was what I expected. A limp adaptation of a video game that never knew what it wanted to be in between installments. While...