This movie starring debut from The Bianca Del Rio (aka Roy Haylock), season 6 winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race, is about a high school teacher whose drag alter ego exacts revenge on a small town in Texas after he’s fired for being gay. (Trust me, despite all the progress in same-sex marriage, THIS still happens […]
To some, whistleblower Edward Snowden will be the ultimate patriot in exposing the U.S. government’s illegal mass collection of cell phone data of millions of Americans. To others (especially those in the federal government), he will forever be a traitor. And while this Oliver Stone biopic likely won’t sway any opinions, it is still a […]
This sequel to the super creepy 1999 Blair Witch Project (which smartly pretends that the horrible 2000 sequel Blair Witch: Book of Shadows never existed) picks up more than a decade later, with a new wanna-be documentary crew (led by the brother of the original film’s female character) heading back into the Maryland wilderness, this […]
This Netflix original series, co-produced by a team including Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge) and rap legends Nas and Grandmaster Flash, portrays the emergence of hip-hop from the ashes of disco in New York’s South Bronx in the late 1970s. It is fresh, it is freaky and yes, as they would say in that era, it […]
Stories about brothers who rob banks are nothing new, but this exquisitely crafted film, from Taylor Sheridan, who wrote last year’s outstanding thriller Sicario, is brutal, intense, and stunningly realistic. Chris Pine and Ben Foster are the two newly-reunited brothers who start robbing small town branches of the West Texas bank that is about to […]
Even at age 86, Clint Eastwood can still direct the hell out of a film and get moviegoers’ emotions churning. This time it’s the true story of Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the US Airways pilot who, in January 2009, steered his jet to a miraculous landing on New York’s Hudson River after losing both engines […]
If you liked the first two shoot-em-up Purge films, then you also will likely also enjoy this politically exploitive election year variation of the ludicrous futuristic theme, where killing becomes legal for a night each year. The pros? Some of the Burning Man-inspired get-ups of “the purgers” are surprisingly creative – sort of like an […]
As far as straight-to-video movies about apocalyptic, viral epidemics go, this is the rare, surprisingly good and realistic one. The story centers on a small upscale community in California that is quarantined after being infected by a global outbreak of the worm flu, sort of like if the neighborhood of MTV’s The Hills was smacked […]
This crime thriller is loosely based on the actual story of a couple of twenty-something stoners from Miami Beach who, thanks to some government loopholes and ingenuity, ended up winning one of the larger defense contracts of the Bush administration. Despite an interesting story and a decent performance by Miles Teller and Jonah Hill as […]
This is a much better than expected apocalyptic zombie flick with plenty of scares that will make you jump out of your seat on more than one occasion. Although the pacing fluctuates from rabidly fast to practically dormant at times and the plot often borders on ridiculousness, Brad Pitt does a fine job and it […]