Star Trek alums Patrick Stewart and the late Anton Yelchin star in this exceptionally realistic gore fest about a punk band that is trapped in a horrifying skinhead nightclub after witnessing a gruesome murder. A highly original, pulse-pounding and shock-filled story creates an onslaught of horror despite some puzzling plot twists. (But then again, it […]
Wow, what a wacky movie of contradictions. The epic African landscapes, cinematography and awesome animal CGI (the same used in The Jungle Book earlier this year) are truly impressive. And Margot Robbie’s Jane was spot on. But the nonsensical treatment of the story of the man raised by gorillas and the surreal comic relief miscasting […]
The premise is cute – a couple of party boys who are told not to come to their sister’s wedding in Hawaii without dates stumble upon an off-the-chain duo who out-party them. A handful of scenes are hysterical (in particular the one with Kumail Nanjiani as the nude massage therapist), but way more fall flat […]
This is one of the most brutally honest movies about death of the elderly ever made – no moving music score, no montages of a happier youth – just tedious monotony, loneliness and despair. Emmanuelle Riva’s Oscar-nominated portrayal of a retired music teacher in physical and mental decline serves as a grim reminder of the […]
Julia Roberts and Richard Gere star in this now iconic Cinderella story about a prostitute and a wealthy executive who fall in love after spending a magical week together. Ridiculousness of the sweet but far-fetched story aside, Roberts and Gere inject loads of charm into the fairytale, which launched her career into the stratosphere and […]
An engaging and throughly entertaining remake of the 1969 John Wayne classic Western about a pig-headed girl with pigtails seeking revenge for her father’s killing by hiring a hard drinking U.S. marshall to go after her father’s killer into the Indian Nations. The Western captures the harshness and brutality of life in America in the […]
This disaster thriller is based on the historic 1952 real life rescue of the crew of an oil tanker that split in half during a gigantic storm off the coast of Cape Cod, which to this day is STILL the Coast Guard’s largest and most daring small boat rescue in U.S. history. I must admit, […]
For a flick aimed at promoting a fresh voice for feminism and independence, this rom-com produced by Drew Barrymore sure is a predictable paint by the numbers affair. Three of the four leads, Rebel Wilson, Alison Brie and Leslie Mann, crank out enough laughs to keep it mildly entertaining – Dakota Johnson, not so much. […]
A couple of cowboys strike up a romance one drunken night in 1963, while watching over sheep on a remote mountain in Wyoming, sparking a 20 year love affair as each juggles marriages, children and jobs with their periodic liaisons on remote camping trips. Director Ang Lee’s adaptation of the short story by Annie Proulx […]
Kristen Wiig co-wrote this story of Annie, a single, out of work bakery chef in the throes of a life slump. But when best friend Lillian announces she is getting married, Annie goes through motions as the Maid of Honor, until one of Lillian’s wealthier, bossy friends (Rose Byrne) threatens to displace her. Director Paul […]