Oh man… Here’s a free piece of moviegoing advice from yours truly. Just…avoid films with Gerard Butler altogether (I regret my London Has Fallen review every day). Geostorm might be the dumbest film in his never-ending cascade of stink bombs.…
Movie Review: Solace
“I see dead people”—surely a phrase familiar to most movie fans. Well, Solace isn’t quite the The Sixth Sense, but Anthony Hopkins sure can see into the future of dying people. The concept of the movie was intriguing, but the…
Women in Film Wednesday: Bright Star (2009)
Despite featuring John Keats as one of the main characters, it’s Abbie Cornish’s Fanny Brawne who leads this lush and tranquil love story. Written and directed by Jane Campion, the movie begins with the seamstress Fanny being introduced to unsuccessful poet…
John’s Movie Review: RoboCop (2014)
Color me conflicted. As a personal rule-of-thumb, if a filmmaker/a musician is remaking/covering a movie/song, I expect them to give it their own touch. I expect said artist to make this new version of an old tale his/her own. There’s…
Underrated Films Part Two
12. A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006) Unique in style, tone and storytelling, this film is about the importance of family and the marks that they leave with you for the rest of your life. Physically you may distance…
Coming Soon: Seven Psychopaths
Martin McDonagh, a name you have probably never heard of, is a playwright who recently has written and made known to the world that he will be directing Seven Psychopaths. It’s a story about 7 people entangled in a huge mess after…