Reviews

[Review] Don’t Blink – Robert Frank

Few people are living embodiments of their style. Now that David Bowie and Prince have left us in the same year, even fewer are. Robert Frank, the subject of La...

[Review] Ghostbusters

Having displayed comedic chops through his entire career and an eye for action in the last few features, Paul Feig was the ideal director to handle a new version of Ghostbusters....

[Review] Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates

Inspired by “true” events, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates is a screwball comedy with the potential to edge towards a smarter farce. More favorable than a cert...

[Review] Microbe and Gasoline

The two boys of Microbe and Gasoline are pre-naturally wise, casually uttering profound truths about sadness, pain, and time, but the smartest observation come...

[Review] The Secret Life of Pets

From the start, The Secret Life of Pets makes no secret that it is a Toy Story clone, and while it's mostly entertaining, it never truly breaks past these bound...

[Review] Fathers and Daughters

The works of director Gabriele Muccino aren't for everyone. I can't speak on his Italian films, but the American ones are unavoidably cloying and sentimental in...

[Review] Private Property

Over the course of his career, the notoriously hard-living Warren Oates palled around with Dennis Hopper and served as one of many Sam Peckinpah muses. His rela...

[Review] The Legend of Tarzan

They don’t make movies like this anymore. Much has already been said about the death of Hollywood star power, the emergence of brands as movie stars, and their ...

[Review] Buddymoon

When Flula Borg showed up in the Pitch Perfect 2 trailer I found myself smiling at his success. It was a cameo keen to capitalize on his YouTube DJ fame and una...

[Review] The Purge: Election Year

The escalation of terror has dialed up a few more notches as writer/director James DeMonaco takes us further down the hole of first world genocide in The Purge:...