2016 Oscar Preview – Sure Things And Dark Horses

It’s Oscar season again!  The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has released the list of nominees for the 88th Academy Awards, with the ceremony scheduled to take place on February 28, 2016.  For the most part, this year’s nominees are disappointingly safe, but there are a few good dark horses here and there […]

‘Goosebumps’ Serves Up All Of R.L. Stine’s Monsters In One Bite-Sized Movie

Synopsis: A teenager teams up with the daughter of young adult horror author R.L. Stine after the writer’s imaginary demons are set free on the town of Greendale, Maryland. Release Date: October 16, 2015     MPAA Rating: PG-13 Genre(s): Action, Adventure Film Review Production R.L. Stine has sold millions of copies of his Goosebumps series of […]

‘Victor Frankenstein’ Is Not Your Grandfather’s Frankenstein Movie

Synopsis: Told from Igor’s perspective, we see the troubled young assistant’s dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man – and the legend – we know today. Release Date: November 25, 2015     MPAA Rating: PG-13 Genre(s): Drama, Horror […]

The Hunger Games National Mall Tour

The Hunger Games excitement continues for fans with the launch of a national mall tour, featuring the tributes.  Cast members participating include Jennifer Lawrence (Katniss), Liam Hemsworth (Gale), and Josh Hutcherson (Peeta).  The eight-city tour kicks off in Los Angeles on March 3rd and will include Q&A’s as well as the chance to win Hunger […]

Julianne Moore’s Masterful Performance Anchors ‘Still Alice,’ A Film That Is As Heartfelt As It Is Heartbreaking

Synopsis: Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a diagnosis of Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease, Alice and her family find their bonds thoroughly tested. Her struggle to stay connected to who she once was is frightening, heartbreaking, and inspiring. Release Date: January 16, […]

‘Jupiter Ascending’ Fails To Rise Above Generic Sci-Fi Fare

Synopsis: Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis) was born under a night sky, with signs predicting that she was destined for great things. Now grown, Jupiter dreams of the stars but wakes up to the cold reality of a job cleaning other people’s houses and an endless run of bad breaks. Only when Caine (Channing Tatum), a genetically […]

Agnès Varda’s Most Personal And Emotional Film, ‘Documenteur’

Agnès Varda has cited Documenteur as her favourite of her own films, presumably because even more than The Beaches of Agnes (2008), it is her most personal and most emotional. She was apart from her husband Demy on her second trip to Los Angeles, at the start of the ‘80s, to develop a script (turned […]