I don’t like country music. That’s not a knock on the form; it’s just not for me. I understand how the opposite is true for other people, and why, but as a non-fan a country song has to do more than just accurately hit the key elements of the genre to get more than an
Immediately after the events of The Force Awakens, the First Order wastes no time in striking back against the Resistance. Supreme Leader Snoke, General Hux, and Kylo Ren bring all their forces to bear against General Leia and her small band of freedom fighters. Their fleet corners our heroes and begins picking off Resistance ships one
When All the President’s Men was released in 1976, Steven Spielberg was just off his wild success with Jaws and neck-deep in one of his most personal films, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. And while it takes a very skilled director to make those two films, he was likely in no shape to make a politically-charged, subtly-nuanced film like
Pixar’s Coco, the latest in the studio’s push for heart-warming, often deft and original family fare, is everything the company does in the best and worst of ways. It’s beautiful, engaging and in its best moments capable of an emotional high few similar films can match. It’s also shamelessly manipulative with a plot that telegraphs every
Well… it’s not awful. That’s a victory of some sort. The road to the first onscreen collaboration of DC Comics‘ most famous characters (and in some cases their first big screen appearances ever) has been a fraught one, from various near misses over the last 15 years to the start and stop approach beginning with 2013’s Man
Talk about a blast from the past – Rogue One: A Star Wars Story literally is just that. Taking place just before the events of the first released Star Wars movie in 1977, this spin-off/prequel has the same primitive, lived-in, emotional, loopy, let’s-put-on-a-show spirit that made us fall in love with the original trilogy. It’s
The Accountant Review: Christian Wolff (Affleck) is a high functioning autistic whose mental development has given him an uncommon ability with numbers, and when he’s not using it to help poor farmers keep their land, he’s helping international criminals hide their ill-gotten gains. As set ups for high concept action thriller’s go, it’s less ridiculous
Deepwater Horizon Review: Deepwater Horizon not only realistically and respectfully depicts the 2010 disaster, but it is a film that has the power to make audiences think and potentially change safety in industry for the better. Story: Deepwater Horizon is based on the real-life disaster that took place in 2010. Mike Williams is a hard
Todd Phillips, who got his start making documentaries about college dudebro culture (Frat House) and controversial, intense punk rock musician GG Allin (Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies), has always tested the boundaries of just how far he can take his characters into contemptibility and still make an entertaining, riveting movie. In that aspect,
Knowledge and understanding are essential elements of human nature – the thing which separates us from animals – but without craft or skill they’re pointless. The ability to see the world but not interact with it is an existential hell most can’t imagine, a mind without body. It would be a stretch to say watching