Beirut, 2018. Directed by Brad Anderson. Starring Jon Hamm, Rosamond Pike, Dean Norris, Mark Pellegrino, Idir Chender, Shea Whigham, Douglas Hodge, Jonny Coyne, Alon Aboutboul, and Larry Pine. SYNOPSIS: Caught in the crossfires of civil war, CIA operatives must send a former U.S. diplomat to negotiate for the life of a friend he left behind. […]
Movie Review – Blockers (2018)
Blockers, 2018. Directed by Kay Cannon. Starring John Cena, Leslie Mann, Ike Barinholtz, Kathryn Newton, Geraldine Viswanathan, Gideon Adlon, Ramona Young, Gina Gershon, Miles Robbins, Gary Cole, Graham Phillips, Jimmy Bellinger, T.C. Carter, and Hannibal Buress. SYNOPSIS: Three parents try to stop their daughters from having sex on Prom night. Preparing young adults for their […]
Movie Review – Sanctuary (2016)
Sanctuary, 2016. Directed by Len Collin. Starring Kieran Coppinger, Charlene Kelly, Robert Doherty, and Amy-Joyce Hastings. SYNOPSIS: Two people engage in a romantic tryst, despite the watchful and disapproving eyes of society and the legal system. Sophie (Charlene Kelly) and Larry (Kieran Coppinger) are two people in love in this funny and moving Irish comedy drama. Based […]
Blu-ray Review – Amazon Women On The Moon (1987)
Amazon Women on the Moon, 1987. Directed by John Landis/Joe Dante/Carl Gottlieb/Robert K. Weiss/Peter Horton. Starring Rosanna Arquette, Michelle Pfeiffer, Arsenio Hall, Peter Horton, Griffin Dunne, Joe Pantoliano, Forrest J. Ackerman, Sybil Danning, Henry Silva, Carrie Fisher, Steve Guttenberg, Jenny Agutter, Dick Miller, Paul Bartel, and Russ Meyer. SYNOPSIS: An anthology of comedy shorts and […]
Movie Review – A Quiet Place (2018)
A Quiet Place, 2018. Directed by John Krasinski. Starring Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, and Noah Jupe. SYNOPSIS: A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound. A Quiet Place presents one of the worst possible scenarios to conceive and bring into the world a baby (also […]
DVD Review – Score: A Film Music Documentary (2016)
Score: A Film Music Documentary, 2016. Directed by Matt Schrader. Featuring Hans Zimmer, Danny Elfman, John Williams, James Cameron, Trent Reznor, Quincy Jones, and Howard Shore. SYNOPSIS: A documentary detailing the role of the film score and the people who create them. Reviewing a documentary can often be a futile exercise, more often than not […]
Movie Review – Isle of Dogs (2018)
Isle Of Dogs, 2018. Directed By Wes Anderson Featuring the voice talents of Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Edward Norton, Bob Balaban, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Kunichi Nomura, Akira Takayama, Frances McDormand, Greta Gerwig, Scarlett Johansson, Yoko Ono, Harvey Keitel, F. Murray Abraham, Tilda Swinton, Akira Ito, Ken Watanabe, Liev Schreiber, Courtney B. Vance, Fisher Stevens, […]
Movie Review – Final Portrait (2017)
Final Portrait, 2017. Written and Directed by Stanley Tucci. Starring Geoffrey Rush, Armie Hammer, Sylvie Testud, Tony Shalhoub, Clémence Poésy, and James Faulkner. SYNOPSIS: The story of Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti. The creative process for artists is a nightmare. This sentiment has been explored time and time again, but rarely so intimate to […]
Movie Review – Gemini (2018)
Gemini, 2018. Written and Directed by Aaron Katz. Starring Lola Kirke, Zoe Kravitz, John Cho, Greta Lee, Nelson Franklin, Michelle Forbes, Ricki Lake, Reeve Carney, James Ransone, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Todd Louiso, Marianne Randon, and Gabriela Flores. SYNOPSIS: A heinous crime tests the complex relationship between a tenacious personal assistant and her Hollywood starlet boss. […]
SXSW Movie Review – Heavy Trip (2018)
Heavy Trip, 2018. Directed by Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren. Starring Johannes Holopainen, Samuli Jaskio, Antti Heikkinen and Max Ovaska. SYNOPSIS: Turo is trying to overcome his fears by leading the most unknown heavy metal band in Finland, Impaled Rektum, to the hottest metal festival of Norway. The journey includes heavy metal, grave robbing, Viking […]
