With The Danish Girl, Tom Hooper has made a gorgeous movie with very little substance, and that’s a shame because the subject matter is very substantial.
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‘The Grand Seduction’ Tickles The Audience’s Funnybone While Tugging At Its Heartstrings
Synopsis: A small fishing village must secure a lucrative business contract to escape a financial slump. Their odds are slim as a town doctor is needed to land the contract and they’ve been searching for years. After the mayor skips town, resident Murray French (Brendan Gleeson) takes it upon himself to find his village a doctor. […]
Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie
Synopsis: Tim and Eric are given a billion dollars to make a movie, but squander every dime⦠and the sinister Schlaaang corporation is pissed. Their lives at stake, the guys skip town in search of a way to pay the money back. When they happen upon a chance to rehabilitate a bankrupt mall full of vagrants, […]
The World Needs More Movies Like ‘Love, Simon’
Synopsis: Simon Spier keeps a huge secret from his family, his friends, and all of his classmates: he’s gay. When that secret is leaked, Simon must face everyone and come to terms with his identity. Release Date: March 16, 2018 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Genre(s): Comedy, Drama Film Review Production Love, Simon is about a high […]
The Los Angeles Film Festival 2014 Offerings Show Promise
It’s hard to believe that Los Angeles has had its own film festival for only two decades, but this year is indeed the 20th edition of the LAFF, running from Wednesday, June 11, to Thursday 19. As ever, the program boasts a mixture of local and regional independent films, a couple of big-ticket studio films […]
‘RoboCop’ (2014): A Passable Remake Unwilling to Leave Its Own Mark
Synopsis: In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Overseas, their drones have been used by the military for years – and it’s meant billions for OmniCorp’s bottom line. Now OmniCorp wants to bring their controversial technology to the home front, and they see a golden opportunity […]
LA Film Fest Review: Killer Joe (Dir. William Friedkin 2011 USA)
Presented by the Director himself, William Friedkin, Killer Joe played to a full house on the second night of the Los Angeles Film Festival 2012 and the entire room was laughing out loud, enjoying every minute of this dark and twisted tale. As Friedkin puts it, “It’s a comedy by the way, you must not […]
‘American Hustle’ Fires On All Cylinders As It Delivers Retro-Seventies Solid Gold
Synopsis: A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams) is forced to work for a wild FBI agent […]
Buried
Synopsis: A man is buried alive in a box and must try and get help before his cell phone battery dies. Release Date: October 8, 2010 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Genre(s): Thriller, Film Review Production The only feasible reason to ever be trapped in a coffin is to watch this movie. Even though you will not […]
Film Review: ‘Fast and Furious’
Fast and Furious would have been better had it stuck to what it is, an action movie, and not tried to dive heavily into drama and the solving of a crime.
