Sumptuous CGI animation and a cute, energetic score accentuates this highly-predictable, paint-by-the-numbers Disney story of a young Pacific Island girl who sets out on an Iliad-style journey to save her people and in doing so, finds herself… blah blah blah. It’s cute and pleasing enough, just not particularly ground breaking or memorable.
Explorers Sebastian Copeland and Keith Heger brave the harsh elements of the Arctic in their two month trek to mark the 100 year anniversary of Robert Peary’s historic hike to the North Pole. The documentary captures the stark beauty of the rapidly shrinking ice caps and the unnerving quiet, noiseless except for the periodic howling […]
This 2015 documentary is the work of a couple of French filmmakers who blend footage of their rare access inside the paranoid, reclusive country and government-staged photo ops with interviews with defectors abroad to gain insight into what life really is like for the North Korean people. The 49 minute film is definitely worth a […]
While pretty to look at, this rare Western/horror’s promising premise, about subterranean monsters feasting at night on cowboys and Indians in the Dakotas of 1879, is ruined by lethargic pacing, too few scares and a total dud of an ending. It fails to be a good Western or a good horror film.
A busload of tourists in the Dutch countryside stumbles upon a windmill that just happens to be the gate to Hell. It’s like Jeepers Creepers 2 meets Ten Little Indians… but with windmills! A decently scary demon, nice travelogue visuals and some creative modes of knocking off the tourists can’t save this über lame movie […]
In his final starring film role, the late Bill Paxton plays a corrupt rural cop and abusive father, whose ill-gotten drug money ends up in the hands of the teenage farm boy next door, who, along with the cash, seizes the opportunity to run off with Paxton’s daughter and start a new life. While the […]
HBO’s seven episode murder whodunit and whositdunto, adapted by Michelle Pfeiffer’s hubby David E. Kelley (LA Law, Abby McBeal, Chicago Hope) from the popular novel, stars Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Laura Dern, Shailene Woodley and Zoe Kravitz as a group of housewives dealing with rape, domestic violence, infidelity, overprotective parenting and bullying amidst the fabulous […]
Quiet desperation is the overriding theme in this psychological drama, about a successful blue collar worker who starts building a storm shelter in his backyard after having dreams of an apocalyptic storm – but are the dreams a vision, or signs of mental illness? Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain both deliver Oscar-worthy performances. The only […]
Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon and Scarlett Johansson lead a star-studded cast in this cute, frenetic, feel good animated musical about a koala who hosts a singing contest featuring a a menagerie of animals, achieving the film’s title goal – to sing. The flimsy, slapped together story is cliched at best, but the singing is great […]
This low budget psychological horror focuses on a female rookie cop who reports for duty as the last shift at a police precinct that is about to close – a precinct that, years ago, was the setting of gruesome deaths. A series of increasingly strange incidents makes our cop realize that she is not alone. […]