Nutcrackers: No doubt, the Janson brothers – Homer, Ulysses, Atlas and Arlo – are cute, well-behaved children in real life. (After all, only a director with no respect for common sense would cast them in the first place.) The same cannot be said of the unruly orphans that the four boys portray in ‘Nutcrackers’ – […]
My Dead Friend Zoe: “I’ve lost more peacemakers here than I’ve lost in Iraq,” carefully words a particular American veteran during any of the group therapy sessions in the movie, ‘My Dead Friend Zoe,’ which Kyle Hausmann-Stokes examines in his documentary that touches on ex-servicepeople’s mental health. The filmmaker and the protagonist lost many of
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Depending on perspective, ‘Ponyboi’ can be viewed as a Trojan’s horse for reaching nonbinary gender identity or as an overly formulaic crime film, albeit one which possesses a strikingly original queer protagonist. In any case, it is a rough but fashionable focus of attention toward intersex actor (and activist) River Gallo, who prefers to go
Bloodline Killer commences on Halloween Eve when young Connor (James Gaudioso, Mid-Century, The Ghost and the Whale) is watching his father get slashed by a mask-wearing man dubbed Skulleton (Adam Shippey, The Many Saints of Newark, The Family Fang). He wants to protect him, but there’s nothing he can do, since his mother Moira (Shawnee
The Fabulous Four: In Hollywood, being a senior male actor and receiving a high status comes with earning roles such as a soldier who has been shipped off to combat (Michael Caine), an angry father or God (Morgan Freeman), Indiana Jones or an inspiring doctor (Harrison Ford), a fighting Tom Cruise, a Freudian worried about
‘Something In The Water’ – the name is an instant nostalgia trigger for anyone who would spend hours looking at boxes of unknown horror VHS tapes in their local video store. That is the premise of the film, a struggling teenage finds solace in watching odd horror movies. If there’s one thing that can be
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“Gracie and Pedro: Pets to the Rescue” is quite possibly the ugliest animated movie ever and it has even managed to be worse than other live action movies that were downright terrible. First of all, I apologize because it sounds as though I am bullying the movie—“Gracie and Pedro: Pets to the Rescue” is intended
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A perfect bite-sized chunk film length of ninety one minutes can’t do justice to Sting, another horror-action genre movie that follows a giant spider terrorizing a group of New Yorkers in Brooklyn. It unquestionably seems to go nether here nor there, but for the length of the film, barely scratching the surface was an awful
Riff Raff: Dito Montiel’s family crime drama thriller, ‘Riff Raff’ is a family crime comedy that runs for only 103 minutes. Sounds a bit short lived. And one would be justified to feel as such considering most, if not all, of the film’s cast were reasonably good but the entire film lacked momentum. Although the
The end credits of “The Luckiest Man in America” feature a clip of the real “Press Your Luck” episode from 1984. Which is the one shown in between Turner and Michael Larson. He is talking about the contest with the host, Peter Tomarken. Michael Larson tells Mr. Tomarken about going to his daughter’s birthday party
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