[Review] Animals
Jude (David Dastmalchian) and Bobbie (Kim Shaw) look like the well-bred, fresh-faced couple you’d find at the beginning of any indie rom-com. The only differenc...
Nathan Bartlebaugh
[Review] The Connection
If the gritty, excruciating milieu of William Friedkin’s The French Connection triggered a new direction in the career of lead actor Gene Hackman, then Cédric J...
[Review] Poltergeist
When little Carol Ann Freeling ominously intoned ‘They’re Here!’ in 1982′s Poltergeist, she wasn’t just announcing the fact that ghosts had discovered suburbia,...
[Review] Tomorrowland
“I get things are bad. But what are we doing to fix it?”
Early on in Brad Bird’s Tomorrowland we are treated to a vision of the future that strives for unque...
[Review] Hot Pursuit
Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara spend the entirety of Anne Fletcher’s Hot Pursuit fleeing both the police and drug-cartel mobsters, but it’s really well-ear...
[Review] The Age of Adaline
If Nicholas Sparks took a stroll through The Twilight Zone, it might look a little like The Age of Adaline, a new fantasy ambitious enough to make the case that...
[Review] Unfriended
The best horror stories often obscure their real subject with the nightmare elements that roam their surface, hiding the focus beneath a veneer of the frighteni...
[Review] The Reconstruction of William Zero
“Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for awhile.” A genetic researcher utters these words halfway through Dan Bush’s moody indie sci-fi The Recons...
[Review] The Longest Ride
It’s easy to feel like a bully when approaching a movie based off a Nicholas Sparks book. The bestselling author has long since identified his particular saccha...
[Review] Last Knights
Clive Owen has the right figure and face for a world-weary medieval knight, but twice now he’s ended up in period action thrillers more grueling than the Middle...
