Reviews

[Review] Transcendence

With a title of Transcendence the promise of mind-bending science-fiction is apparent before one sees a frame of the film. Too bad then, that Wally Pfister’s ne...

[Review] The Railway Man

The story of Eric Lomax began as one of great misfortune, only to became extraordinary because of the forgiving choices of the man at its heart. A British signa...

[Review] Proxy

I learned something while watching Zack Parker's horror (though psychological thriller is a more apt genre label) film Proxy: Richmond, Indiana is a hotbed for ...

[Review] The Final Member

The latest cockumentary, The Final Member has somewhat grander ambitions than Brian Spitz’s quest UnHung Hero, where a size-conscious fellow attempts to unzip g...

[Review] Cuban Fury

Cuban Fury mostly delivers the kind of funny, silly and delightful comedy as you’d expect from something “based on an original idea” by Nick Frost, best known a...

[Review] Hateship Loveship

There is something appealingly ambiguous about the story at the heart of Hateship Loveship. It goes through the paces and hangs itself on the narrative framewor...

[Review] Rio 2

Why do so many kid-friendly animated series race ahead in their character’s histories so they might tell stories about reluctant parents? When fashioning an eng...

[Review] Draft Day

Kevin Costner built his career as a movie star on one American Pastime. With Draft Day, directed by Ivan Reitman, we get the aged actor's continued attempt at a...

[Review] The Retrieval

A sort-of counter-balance to Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave, The Retrieval is the story of Will (Ashton Sanders) on the run from, and in collaboration with, w...

[Review] In the Blood

The road to action movie stardom is paved with as many missteps as successes. For every Rambo: First Blood, there’s a Cobra. For every Terminator, there’s a Com...