Selma Review
Now, here’s the way to make a truly resonating Bio-pic, the type of ‘Prestige Drama’ that gets it. At the risk of going into spoiler territory I want to examine a scene late in Ava…
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The Drop Review
It’s always amazing to observe the temporal reductive power of film, what a film has to do while unfolding its story. A movie that spends a little over a month with characters in under two…
Life Itself Review
I would like to think somewhere Gene and Roger are having a hell of a time debating the artistic merits of this film, would give two thumbs up just to that debate. As I have…
The Dance of Reality Review
Well, this will be an interesting one… One of the main reasons for my great appreciation and praise for Jodorowsky’s Dune was something I didn’t want to spoil in the review; the fact that coming together to make…
Blue Ruin Review
It’s a welcomed surprise when a movie that is otherwise pretty piss-poor sci-fi gives an unexpected insight into a beloved character, I’m speaking of Star Trek 5 where Captain Kirk resisting the influence of a telepathic…
The Double Review
Two strangely sublime movies about men who have a physical double out there in world, released nearly back-to-back… the apocalypse is definitely upon us. Denis Villeneuve showed earlier this year how the Doppelgänger story could…
The Wind Rises Review
The Manhattan Project’s lead physicist John Robert Oppenheimer was asked a few years before his death about the true effectiveness of halting the spread of Atomic weapons in the cold war era. His answer: “…It’s…
Life of Pi (Or A Life To Not Die) Review
There have been many a tale told of human survival in the face of certain death, movies from based on true stories, i.e. Alive! and 127 hours, all have proven the last ounce of will…
Lincoln (or THE Lincoln) Review
Alright, so there was no way in hell I was going to skip this one in theaters. Spielberg, Daniel Day Lewis, and Abraham Lincoln; say no more I was seeing this at any and all…
Smashed (Or Smashing) Review
Along the lines of last Year’s acclaimed Shame and this year’s best The Master, Smashed documents battling a strong addiction that becomes hell-on-earth for the person that got hooked. Dealing with alcoholism is nothing new to cinema,…