This riveting Ben Affleck-directed story, about the six employees who escaped from the U.S. Embassy in Iran during the 1979 siege and hostage crisis, and the CIA operative who covertly helped them escape, is intense, riveting and easily one of 2012’s best films. It’s a fascinating glimpse inside one of the more frustrating moments in […]
This civil rights era period piece set in 1960s Jackson, Mississippi is the story about an enterprising young writer (Emma Stone) who convinces the town’s black maids to spill the beans on what life really is like working for the town’s white women. A cleverly written story and an exceptionally strong supporting cast (Viola Davis, […]
This indy anthology of horror vignettes, loosely interwoven together, includes a couple that are surprisingly creative and entertaining and a couple that are a nonsensical mess (rework, please!), but nonetheless, this unusual film achieves its goal of keeping fans of gore enthralled to the very end.
The stunning Blake Lively battles a massive great white shark on a remote beach in this action-adventure hybrid of Jaws and Castaway with a wee bit of Sharknado. The surf porn cinemagraphy is gorgeous and Lively carries the film nicely, despite a predictable plot that frequently tests the bounds of believability – seriously, can anything […]
Sally Field is Doris, an old lady who is a hoarder, has had the same job for decades and has lived her entire adult life with her mother on New York’s Staten Island. When her mother dies, Doris’ small bubble of a world pops, leading to a fixation on the hot young new co-worker and […]
An exceptionally clever and fresh story brimming with cute sea critters and truly hysterical moments, this sequel to Pixar’s beloved Finding Nemo is an absolute delight. As the immensely-likable Ellen Degeneres’ memory-challenged Dory searches for her parents, we are reminded about the importance of learning to navigate through our own disabilities and appreciate that life’s […]
After the child of an American expat family in Mumbai, India dies in a tragic car accident, their well-meaning housekeeper reaches out to the suicidal mother, telling her of a Hindu temple in the jungle where she can communicate with her dead son behind a closed door, so long as she doesn’t open that door. […]
This quiet sleeper of a film packs quite an emotional punch, featuring Susan Sarandon as Marnie, a lonely widow who’s moved to LA to focus her well-intentioned smothering on her unhappy screenwriter daughter, deftly played by Rose Byrne. After said daughter sets some boundaries, Marnie turns her attention towards her daughter’s friends and various strangers […]
Despite its flaws and some highly implausible moments, this raw and surprisingly realistic faux documentary, about a teenage girl who attempts suicide after months of torment by the popular girl at school, is an important film that every young person should see, not only to witness the awful effects of bullying, but to better understand […]
Sequels are rarely as good as the originals and while this horror film is good, the saying still holds true. Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga return as famed paranormal duo Ed and Lorraine Warren, to investigate one of the most documented hauntings in history – England’s Enfield Poltergeist of the late 1970s. Like its predecessor, […]