Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn team up as a daughter/mother duo kidnapped while on vacation in Ecuador in this screwball comedy produced by Paul Feig, director of Bridesmaids, The Heat and Spy. Yes, the flimsy story is at times just outright stupid but the charm and spot-on comic timing of its two stars and a […]
This CMT documentary about the world of competitive chicken breeding is a quirky, interesting glimpse into a slice of Americana that few people have ever seen… until now. At first it appears to be a real life, chicken fried version of the classic Christopher Guest dog show mockumentary “Best in Show,” but the enthusiasm, dedication […]
This biopic about British explorer Percy Fawcett starts off as an epic love letter to adventurers everywhere, following Fawcett’s harrowing treks in the early 1900s through uncharted parts of eastern Bolivia, where he and his men battled cannibals, piranhas, illness and starvation as they mapped areas around the profitable rubber plantations and learned of a […]
From time to time there is that movie you see that is so bad you are embarrassed to admit you saw it. THIS is that movie. It is presented as a mockumentary/found footage combo about a mass murder years before of a crew staging a Halloween haunted hotel tour that, surprise, turned out was really […]
It’s no surprise that this story starring Dennis Quaid, about a repeatedly reincarnated dog bringing joy to lonely souls, is ridiculously simplistic and emotionally manipulative. But what is a surprise is some of the uncharacteristically sad lives and deaths our furry star endures in the film. But the predictably sweet tearjerker ending is a crowd […]
This new TV series, certain to become Hulu’s most popular original program ever, is based on Margaret Atwood’s highly-acclaimed 1985 novel about a dystopian world in which the United States has been overthrown by Christian fundamentalists who have instituted a horrifying new world order, one in which gay people are executed, Catholic churches are destroyed […]
A South Korean businessman driving home to his family is trapped when a highway tunnel in the countryside collapses. As days go by, discovery of the shoddiness of the tunnel’s design and construction hampers rescue efforts and diminishes hope for rescue in this disaster thriller from director Kim Seong-hun. Quick pacing, impressive visual effects and […]
This is a moody, surreal Russian horror film about a couple of sisters who enlist the help of a priest and a centuries old ritual when they discover that a deadly plague in their village is actually the work of demons preying on villagers’ subconscious minds. The trippy concept, impressive visuals, and story’s more cerebral […]
This slightly different spin on the zombie genre focuses on a British military research facility that is studying hybrid zombie children in the search for a cure when it is overrun by zombies, whom are the creation of a fungal infection – sort of an Invasion of The Body Snatchers meets 28 Days Later. Sennia […]
More than 2000 German POWs were forced to clear nearly two million landmines from the beaches of Denmark following WWII. Most were teenagers and most died or were horribly maimed in the process. This gut-wrenching, 2017 Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film is the story about a group of them. It is a film […]