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
Taylor Sheridan, the screenwriter for Hell or High Water, understands the intricacies of the conversations of men, men who talk a lot but never say what they mean; men whose jovial choice of words hides a deeper melancholy and pain. As screenwriter for “Sons of Anarchy” and Sicario, Sheridan writes towards the meanings between the words.
Pete’s Dragon isn’t exactly a remake of the original 1977 Disney film. That film was a musical, with a hand-drawn animated dragon and a different story altogether, although the characters of Pete (Oakes Fegley) and his dragon Elliot remain. Instead of a whimsical Disney musical, David Lowery and co-screenwriter Toby Halbrooks have decided to take a
BY SCOTT CHITWOOD Kubo and the Two Strings has impressive stop-motion animation, a fun voice cast, and a story that will draw in people that like Hayao Miyazaki films, but a slow pace and dreamy tone may lull audiences to sleep while dragging it down overall. Story: Long ago in ancient Japan, Kubo and his
By Joshua Starnes ON August 17, 2016 It’s hard to say exactly which is the most frustrating aspect of Ben-Hur; the catalog of terrible decisions on display or the good choices all those bad ideas cover up. Quiet when it should be loud, loud when it should be quiet, the newest version of Lew Wallace’s
9:00 AM PDT 8/2/2016 by Todd McCarthy Director David Ayer (‘Fury’) brings his eagerly awaited DC Comics-based action noir to the screen, with Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Jared Leto and Viola Davis starring. A puzzlingly confused undertaking that never becomes as cool as it thinks it is, Suicide Squad assembles an all-star team of supervillains
By Joshua Starnes ON July 28, 2016 William Goldman famously said of Hollywood “no one knows nothing;” the creators of successful films are frequently just as clueless as to why their films succeeded as the creators of failures. The only strategy for dealing with this problem is, when success is stumbled over, to repeat, repeat,
11:40 PM PDT 3/14/2016 by John DeFore Seth Rogen leads an A-list cast of voice actors playing groceries who don’t know what happens once they’re taken home from the supermarket. Sausage Party, an R-rated comedy about food products waiting to be sold at a supermarket, begins unpromisingly, with a musical number so effing gratuitously overstuffed