Flower, 2018.Directed by Max Winkler Starring Zoey Deutch, Joey Morgan, Adam Scott, Tim Heidecker, and Kathryn Hahn.SYNOPSIS:A sexually curious teen forms an unorthodox kinship with her mentally unstable stepbrother.Flower is as unstable a ride as many of the characters that inhabit it, so let’s just start at the beginning which sees Erica (Zoey Deutch radiating […]
Movie Review – I Kill Giants (2018)
I Kill Giants, 2018.Directed by Anders Walter. Starring Madison Wolfe, Sydney Wade, Zoe Saldana, Imogen Poots, Noel Clarke, Rory Jackson, Ciara O’Callaghan, and Jennifer Ehle.SYNOPSIS:Barbara Thorson struggles through life by escaping into a fantasy life of magic and monsters.I Kill Giants, while a decent debut full-length feature from director Anders Walter (based on Joe Kelly’s […]
Second Opinion – Tomb Raider (2018)
Tomb Raider, 2018.Directed by Roar Uthaug. Starring Alicia Vikander, Dominic West, Walton Goggins, Daniel Wu, Derek Jacobi, Kristin Scott Thomas, Hannah John-Kamen, and Nick Frost.SYNOPSIS:Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she finds herself on the island where her father disappeared.Movies based off video games […]
SXSW Movie Review – Hereditary (2018)
Hereditary, 2018.Directed by Ari Aster. Starring Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, Ann Dowd, Milly Shapiro, and Alex Wolff.SYNOPSIS:When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter’s family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more they discover, the more they find themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate […]
Movie Review – Killing Gunther (2017)
Killing Gunther, 2017.Written and Directed by Taran Killam. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Cobie Smulders, Allison Tolman, Hannah Simone, Taran Killam, Bobby Moynihan, Ryan Gaul, Amir Talai, and Aaron Yoo.SYNOPSIS:A team of professional assassins plan to take down the greatest contract killer on record. Every moment is captured by a documentary crew as their world begins to unravel and […]
Movie Review – Big Fish & Begonia (2016)
Big Fish & Begonia, 2016.Directed by Xuan Liang and Chun Zhang Featuring the voice talents of Guanlin Ji, Shangqing Su, Timmy Xu, Shulan Pan, Yuanyuan Zhang, Jiu’er, Lifang Xue, and Jie Zhang.SYNOPSIS:Big Fish & Begonia unfolds in a world underneath the sea inhabited by spirits who control the time, tides, and seasons of the human […]
Movie Review – The Death of Stalin (2017)
The Death of Stalin, 2017.Directed by Armando Iannucci. Starring Steve Buscemi, Jeffrey Tambor, Simon Russell Beale, Andrea Riseborough, Adrian Mcloughlin, Jason Isaacs, Rupert Friend, Paddy Considine, Michael Palin, Olga Kurylenko, Paul Whitehouse, Paul Chahidi, Richard Brake, Jonathan Aris, and Dermot Crowley.SYNOPSIS:Follows the Soviet dictator’s last days and depicts the chaos of the regime after his […]
Movie Review – Tomb Raider (2018)
Tomb Raider, 2018.Directed by Roar Uthaug. Starring Alicia Vikander, Dominic West, Walton Goggins, Daniel Wu, Derek Jacobi, Kristin Scott Thomas, Hannah John-Kamen, and Nick Frost.SYNOPSIS:Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she finds herself on the island where her father disappeared.Alicia Vikander is the first […]
SXSW Movie Review – Blindspotting (2018)
Blindspotting, 2018.Directed by Carlos López Estrada. Starring Daveed Diggs, Rafael Casal, Janina Gavankar, and Jasmine Cephas Jones.SYNOPSIS:Lifelong friends Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal co-wrote and star in this timely and wildly entertaining story about the intersection of race and class, set against the backdrop of a rapidly gentrifying Oakland.Rubin’s vase is the name given to the […]
Movie Review – 7 Days in Entebbe (2018)
7 Days in Entebbe. 2018Directed by José Padilha Starring Rosamond Pike, Daniel Bruhl, Lior Ashkenazi, Eddie Marsan, Ben Schnetzer, Nonso Anozie, Denis Ménochet, Brontis Jodorowsky, Zina Zinchenko, Mark Ivanir, and Peter SullivanSynopsis:Inspired by the true events of the 1976 hijacking of an Air France flight en route from Tel Aviv to Paris, and the most daring […]
