To make a movie about Nikola Tesla rightfully deserves an ounce of ingenuity and can-do spirit. The man himself was enigmatic, deliriously ambitious, and neurotically hard-working, constantly fighting against low budgets and general indifference from investors. Finally, here’s a movie…
Capone Review: An Extremely Flawed and Grotesque Gangster Biopic
About 20 minutes into Capone, the newest film from Chronicle and Fantastic Four director Josh Trank, we see an aging Alphonse Capone (Tom Hardy) sitting in a chair munching on an old cigar. The house that he occupies is lavish…
Movie Review: ‘The House with a Clock in Its Walls’ is a stylish and campy tribute to Amblin era
Watching The House With A Clock In Its Walls feels like flipping through the cooky 150 page children’s books a grade schooler buys at their library book fair. You can practically see the peanut butter and jelly stains at the…
The Film Canon: Blue Velvet (1986)
[Warning: Contains spoilers!!] A green lawn, red roses, and a white picket fence. Red lipstick, a pink sweater, and beautiful blonde hair. Yellow curtains, a yellow suit, and a roll of yellow police tape. Green, rotting flesh, black, crawling ants,…