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…
The Curse of La Llorona Movie Review: Prepare to weep from boredom
Fear may be subjective, but if my younger self knew that they would still be making basic horror films like The Curse of the Llorona 20 years later, I know it would truly have scared the bejesus out of me.
Green Book’s Perspective is Skewed to Favor Viggo Mortensen Over Mahershala Ali
Peter Farrelly, whose filmography consists of mostly comedies such as There’s Something About Mary and Dumb and Dumber, takes on a different kind of film with Green Book. Co-written by Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga, and Brian Hayes Currie, the film downplays…
Movie Review: Daddy’s Home 2
Hello daddy my old friend, I’ve come to talk with you again. “Alright fellas, we need to cast our new family comedy,” director Sean Anders (Daddy’s Home, Horrible Bosses 2) declared in the first Daddy’s Home 2 meeting, “Somebody that…
TV Review: ‘Bloodline’ Season 2
If there’s one thing that made the first season of Bloodline watchable it was the mystery John Rayburn (Kyle Chandler) narrates to us about what the three younger Rayburn siblings did to Danny (Ben Mendelsohn), the fourth sibling and black…
Throwback TV Review: Freaks and Geeks Pilot
Lads and ladies we’re going on a trip to the 1980s. Hair metal and the Atari were taking hold, kids and adults alive were asking for their MTV. That is the landscape for Judd Apatow’s 1999 series Freaks and Geeks. In…
Daddy’s Home Review
Movies like Daddy’s Home around the holiday season are as inevitable as Christmas decorations on your street. It’s a bright, crowd-pleasing, silly way to spend a bit of money while giving you an excuse to tune out the family you…