There’s a perpetual state of corporate cynicism present throughout the entire runtime of Sony’s The Emoji Movie. Rather than utilizing technology to tell a thought-provoking story, it settles into soulless promotional tactics masquerading as a children’s movie. Adult viewers can…
Movie Review: The Incredible Jessica James
There is one thing that romantic comedies seem to have in common: they’re mainly about white women losing themselves over a man’s affection. They usually have a black best friend supporting their woes and constantly encouraging them to go after…
Movie Review: Detroit
Unrelenting, infuriating and tonally messy, Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit, which chronicles the real life events of the Algiers Motel during the Detroit Riots of 1967, is a powerful, albeit sporadic, film. At times, the film is a scorching indictment of police brutality,…
Movie Review: Who the F**K Is That Guy
Michael Alago didn’t look like much back in the glory days of late 70s/early 80s New York squalor and filth, when blue-jeaned punks bumped shoulders with headbangers, druggies, and drop-outs. A skinny, effeminate Puerto Rican kid from a Hassidic neighborhood…
Movie Review: Killing Ground
What’s an Australian horror film about backpackers getting savagely murdered by insane hunters to do to free themselves of the long shadow of Greg McLean’s 2005 film Wolf Creek ? Up the gore? Possibly, although the “head on a stick” scene would…
Movie Review: Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk
“It’s a conversation with society, and often, it’s an argument,” declares narrator Iggy Pop in a statement providing context for punk rock in the opening of Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk, and it doesn’t take long…
Matt Groening Sets Sights on Netflix With ‘Disenchantment’
You’d think that after creating the longest running cartoon in the history of television with The Simpsons, and a hilarious futuristic space romp in Futurama, cartoonist and creator Matt Groening would have had his fill of original programs for the…