Video game adaptions have always proved challenging in cinema. The transfer of playability to watchability has far more failures than successes, and that's not even including the long list of ill advised Uwe Bol films. You would think that videos games, packed with complex protagonists, intriguing
one of the most active and prolific filmmakers working today, Steven Soderbergh has made a career of pumping out new films every 6 months. They're rarely the same, too, as he constantly tackles new genres and cultural examinations with engaging characters, dynamic direction and fascinating ideas.
There's a growing trend in cinema right now, and that is the trend of movies being fun again. Just a good old-fashioned time at the theater (or home since streaming accounts for most viewership these days) filled with laughs and action and heart that remind you why you go to escape in the first
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There seems to be something in the water over at the Apatow house. The irreverent comedy is alive and well, the mantle carried by Maude Apatow in her directorial debut with Poetic License. Everything you love about buddy comedies, foul-mouthed protagonists, and aimless man-child antics are all
There's no sense in burying the lede here. Obsession is about as good as horror gets, making an absolute meal out of its simple premise and delivering just about everything you could want from a genre film. It's smart, sometimes funny, always entertaining and often downright terrifying. Its expert
After what seems like forever, the last stretch of a very long awards season will finally come to an end. On March 15th, the Oscars will commence and we can finally put the heated races and made-up campaign controversies behind us. The 98th Academy Awards is really a tale of two films, One Battle
It's always a risk when you ask a performer to shoulder a film and carry it over the finish line. Sometimes it works, the star's sheer charisma is enough to override the glaring flaws. But often times, no matter how bright that star shines it can't outshine the weaknesses. Thus is the case with
I am such a sucker for films that make their setting a character. The kind where the city itself is so integral to the story it can't be made anywhere else. I also love a good 70s crime thriller, character-driven narratives packed with equal heart and thrills. Enter The Only Living Pickpocket in
Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia has Sitara / Fatima play a very dangerous game of power and intrigue in Ep. 8 "Great Khatun Boraqchin". All surrounding the most recent addition to the growing cast: the Empress Boraqchin. She's elderly and quite enigmatic, but is also as sharp as a rapier. Playing
What happens when you combine the powers of the director (Jean-François Richet) behind the absolutely smashing Plane and Jason Statham wrecking human traffickers left and right? You get Mutiny. Now the movie isn't just called Boat or Ship, and it really isn't part of the "Jason Statham Has A Job
Don't let them tell you that the romantic comedy is dead. At least, not when it comes to One Night Only. The new Will Gluck film, with a script by Travis Braun, asks audiences one important question: Can you find love during the sex purge? Allie (Monica Barbaro) is a young woman who finds herself
