Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension. 2015 Directed by Gregory Plotkin Starring Chris J. Murray, Brit Shaw, Ivy George, Dan Gill, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Chloe Csengery, Jessica Tyler Brown, and Michael Krawi SYNOPSIS: Using a special camera that can see spirits, a family must protect their daughter from an evil entity with a sinister plan. Paranormal […]
51st Chicago International Film Festival Review – A Light Beneath Their Feet (2015)
A Light Beneath Their Feet, 2015. Directed by Valerie Weiss. Starring Taryn Manning, Madison Davenport, Maddie Hasson, Kali Hawk, Kurt Fuller, Carter Jenkins, Nora Dunn, and Brian King. SYNOPSIS: A high school senior must choose between enrolling at the college of her dreams and remaining at home to take care of her bipolar mother. Issues […]
51st Chicago International Film Festival Review – Brooklyn (2015)
Brooklyn, 2015. Directed by John Crowley. Starring Saoirse Ronan, Enory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson, Julie Walters, Michael Zegen, and Jim Broadbent. SYNOPSIS: In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Ellis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries. Eilis (Saoirse Ronan) has nothing positive going for her at home in Ireland besides a loving […]
Second Opinion – Steve Jobs (2015)
Steve Jobs, 2015. Directed by Danny Boyle. Starring Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, Katherine Waterston, Michael Stuhlberg, Makenzie Moss, Ripley Sobo, Perla Haney-Jardine, and Jeff Daniels. SYNOPSIS: Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital […]
Did the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer spoil a key death?
Robert Kojder on whether the new trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens spoils a key death…It goes without saying that potential spoilers will be discussed in this article, so if you read my interpretation that may or may not be correct and become upset that a touch of the mystery has been removed, you […]
Movie Review – Beasts of No Nation (2015)
Beasts of No Nation. 2015 Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga Starring Abraham Attah, Idris Elba, Emmanuel Nil Adom Quaye, Kurt Egylawan, and Opeyemi Fagbohungbe SYNOPSIS: A drama based on the experiences of Agu, a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed African country. As part of Agu’s (Abraham Attah) inauguration into child […]
51st Chicago International Film Festival Review – Cash Only (2015)
Cash Only, 2015. Directed by Malik Bader. Starring Nikola Shreli, Stivi Paskoski, Danijela Stajnfeld, and Malik Bader. SYNOPSIS: In this gritty Detroit-set thriller, Elvis Martini (writer-star Nickola Shreli, in a gripping performance) is a single Albanian father and landlord trying to do the right thing. But since he’s in debt to both bookies and his […]
Movie Review – Carol (2015)
Carol, 2015.Directed by Todd Haynes. Starring Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Jake Lacy, John Magaro and Kyle Chandler.SYNOPSIS:Set in 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.Love is the most powerful force in the universe. Unfortunately, it took us until 2015 to legalize gay […]
51st Chicago International Film Festival Review – Embers (2015)
Embers, 2015. Directed by Claire Carre. Starring Jason Ritter, Iva Gocheva, Greta Fernandez, Tucker Smallwood, Karl Glusman, Roberto Cots, Dominique Swain, Matthew Goulish, and Silvan Friedman. SYNOPSIS: After a global neurological epidemic, those who remain search for meaning and connection in a world without memory. Embers poses a very terrifying apocalyptic scenario; what if a […]
51st Chicago International Film Festival Review – I Smile Back (2015)
I Smile Back, 2015. Directed by Adam Salky. Starring Sarah Silverman, Josh Charles, Skylar Gaertner, Shayne Coleman, and Thomas Sadoski. SYNOPSIS: Laney Brooks does bad things. Married with kids, she takes the drugs she wants, sleeps with the men she wants, disappears when she wants. Now, with the destruction of her family looming, and temptation […]
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