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…

TV Review: Wayward Pines 2×01 “Enemy Lines”

Most of us are fortunate enough to have a place we can call home. It’s earned this title not because it is where we live, but the significance it carries. Material things aren’t what make a home, it’s the people…

TV Review: Wayward Pines 1×01 “Where Paradise Is Home″

[Based solely on the first episode] We’ve all been there. After a night of partying too hard, you wake up on the floor of some unknown place, having no recollection of how you got there and even what happened the…

Tribeca Film Festival 2013: ‘Sunlight Jr.’ Review

When used correctly, misery can be a refreshing and cathartic tool in cinema (think of Bicycle Thieves, Bright Star, or Grave of Fireflies); it can be an excuse for pent up emotions to be released by means of an art…