Life, Animated, 2016. Directed by Roger Ross Williams. SYNOPSIS: A coming of age story about a boy and his family who overcame great challenges by turning Disney animated movies into a language to express love, loss, kinship and brotherhood. Disney, for many, is a staple of their childhood, and also a favourite collection of films […]
Exclusive Interview: Oliver Stone discusses his career and new film Snowden
Paul Risker chats with Oliver Stone about his career and his new film Snowden… Oliver Stone has been the consciousness of not only modern America, but of the modern world. He has vehemently explored questions on subjects with a captivating drama that have been offset with his trademark insight. His cinema has spanned such subjects […]
Movie Review – Office Christmas Party (2016)
Office Christmas Party, 2016. Directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck. Starring Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, T.J. Miller, Olivia Munn, Vanessa Bayer, Courtney B. Vance, Jillian Bell, Jamie Chung, Rob Corddry, Abbey Lee, Kate McKinnon, Karan Soni, and Matt Walsh. SYNOPSIS: In OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY, when the CEO (Jennifer Aniston) tries to close her hard-partying […]
Movie Review – A Monster Calls (2016)
A Monster Calls, 2016. Directed by J.A Bayona. Starring Lewis MacDougall, Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones, Toby Kebbell and Liam Neeson. SYNOPSIS: A boy seeks the help of a Tree monster to help his mother with her terminal illness. A Monster Calls is a truly tragic coming of age story, a 12-year-old boy Conor (Lewis MacDougall) dealing […]
DVD Review – The Shallows (2016)
The Shallows, 2016. Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. Starring Blake Lively, Oscar Jaenada, Angelo Josue Lozano Corzo, Bret Mullen, Chelsea Moody. SYNOPSIS: A surfer is attacked by a great white shark a couple of hundred yards from the shore and must battle to get back to dry land. “The best shark movie since Jaws” is a […]
Blu-ray Review – Cohen & Tate (1988)
Cohen & Tate, 1988. Directed by Eric Red. Starring Roy Scheider, Adam Baldwin, Harley Cross, Suzanne Savoy, Cooper Huckabee and Kenneth McCabe. SYNOPSIS: Two hitmen kidnap a young boy to take back to their mob bosses for questioning about a murder but the boy plays the mismatched pair off against each other. Coming from the […]
Movie Review – Sully (2016)
Sully. 2016. Directed by Clint Eastwood. Starring Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Anna Gunn, Mike O’Malley, Jamey Sheridan, Michael Rapaport, and Laura Linney. SYNOPSIS: The story of Chesley Sullenberger, an American pilot who became a hero after landing his damaged plane on the Hudson River in order to save the flight’s passengers and crew. With it […]
Movie Review – The Edge of Seventeen (2016)
The Edge of Seventeen, 2016. Written and Directed by Kelly Fremon Craig. Starring Hailee Steinfeld, Woody Harrelson, Blake Jenner, Haley Lu Richardson, Hayden Szeto, and Kyra Sedgwick. SYNOPSIS: High-school life gets even more unbearable for Nadine when her best friend, Krista, starts dating her older brother. Since the halcyon days of John Hughes thirty years […]
Movie Review – Chi-Raq (2015)
Chi-Raq, 2015. Directed by Spike Lee. Starring Nick Cannon, Teyonah Parris, Wesley Snipes, Angela Bassett, Jennifer Hudson, John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson. SYNOPSIS: A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago. Evidently, Chi-Raq – a loose adaptation of the ancient Greek play […]
Supergirl Season 2 Episode 8 Review – ‘Medusa’
Martin Carr reviews the eighth episode of Supergirl season 2… Anyone familiar with the stop motion classic which is Clash of the Titans where an aging Laurence Olivier played a soft focus Zeus and lorded it over his minions, will be aware of Medusa. A temptress cursed to turn those who looked upon her into […]
