“True story” movies have always been popular. Three of the last four Best Picture-winners were based on true stories. Nonetheless, I feel like there have been a lot more than usual this year. We’ve got The Imitation Game, The Theory of Everything, Foxcatcher, Selma, American Sniper, Big Eyes… uhm… Exodus (?), and the movie I’m…
Gentle, charming, indie comedies. This is an oft-abused, difficult-to-master art form. Do you even know how easy it is to mess up while attempting to make one of these things? It’s easier to ruin than an adaptation of a beloved fantasy novel. As such, when people get it right, and hit every note with delicate…
Baddie – The thing in your closet tho. Lesson – Let it gooooo let it goooooo can’t hold it back any moreeee. The Babadook is lauded as one of the best (maybe the best) horror movie in the last few years. It’s received tons of hype and positive reception in the last few months as it plods…
I was recently thinking back to last year and all the good movies that came out then: 12 Years a Slave, Gravity, Her, Captain Phillips, Prisoners, Mud, Much Ado About Nothing, Pacific Rim, American Hustle, Inside Llewyn Davis, and many others. This year has not been as good, especially as far as Oscar movies are…
When you think of the holiday season, what comes to mind? Is it a twinkling array of lights? Family and friends? Are you filled with the spirit of hope, generosity, and miracle? Or do you see hairy, unblinking faces? Do cartoon sand monsters slither through your mind? Does a large, four armed cook yell at…
Peter Jackson has spent some time in Middle-earth, producing six movies and oceans of profit, and fostering more childhoods than he could have anticipated. The Fellowship of the Ring hit theaters in 2001, thirteen years ago. Feel old yet? If you don’t, that’s because you’re too young, and you missed The Lord of the Rings…
Top Five (2014) The Plot: On the day before his live-on-air marriage to reality star Erica Long (Gabrielle Union), comedian and recovering alcoholic Andre Allen (Chris Rock) is in Manhattan promoting the release of his new critically maligned drama. At the urging of his agent (Kevin Hart), Andre agrees to do an in-depth interview…
Rooster Illusion 