Nick Allen

[Review] No Escape

Violence is a true horror in No Escape, a gripping microcosm of inhumanity set during a brutal coup d’état. Director John Erick Dowdle has a knack for placing a...

[Review] Grandma

Lily Tomlin has had more than just one “role of a lifetime” in her filmography, but in writer/director Paul Weitz’s Grandma she’s given the type of project that...

[Review] Return to Sender

Return to Sender is an equally repulsive and dreadful movie that deserves to be more than spoiled -- it should be murdered, buried, and never discussed again. T...

[Review] Prince

By way of Vice Magazine cred, and “Special Mention” kudos from a jury of teens at the Berlin Film Festival, comes the Dutch film Prince by newcomer Sam de Jong....

[Review] The Gift

In his thoroughly strategized directorial debut The Gift, actor-writer Joel Edgerton recognizes curiosity as a seed. He plants one hardly five minutes in, based...

[Review] Ricki and the Flash

Ricki and the Flash boasts one of the more curious cameos this summer, and it is not from some musician giving a guitar-rockin’ Meryl Streep a thumbs up. It’s B...

[Fantasia Review] They Look Like People

NYC twenty-somethings get their own Take Shelter in newcomer writer/director Perry Blackshear’s They Look Like People, a micro tale of paranoia in the big city ...

[Fantasia Review] Who Killed Captain Alex?

Who Killed Captain Alex? contains Ugandan commandos, kung fu, a MIDI version of Seal’s “Kiss from a Rose” as part of its score, a rambunctious (and sometimes fa...

[Review] A LEGO Brickumentary

A LEGO Brickumentary is a business move, not a movie. Everything that was indeed awesome about the company’s eye-opening The LEGO Movie, including the goodwill ...