The bright-eyed German YouTube DJ came to ‘Buddymoon’ with a relentless energy honed from capturing the attention of an ever-changing social media audience. Unlike the typical audience member, I was already familiar with his previous work and was rooting for Flula Borg when I saw him in the Pitch Perfect 2 trailer. His clipped English […]
Whether we like it or not, when we hit play on a rom-com, we expect a laugh or two as well as to feel a tad bit more optimistic and hopeful about the prospects of romance. This is usually achieved through the lens of the woman, who is of course, a stereotypically good-looking with a
Regardless of whether his legal troubles conclude any time soon, “bad boy” internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom enjoys fair treatment from Annie Goldson’s probing, which is extensive, though not exhaustive. In the fully documented film, Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web, Dotcom comes off as an unrepentant opportunist, in addition to being the victim of what
In 1993, I glanced at the scale and balloons played my weight at two hundred thirty-five pounds. That was not my healthy weight of 210 pounds. Instead, It was fifty pounds past my pasty body at twenty-two years old. I still remember myself at 26, which is when the mirror would show me Will Smith’s
The “Mack & Rita” cast features Diane Keaton as a 30-year-old woman who can become a deep, old lady. It doesn’t come as the norm of waiting 40 years, but after a visit to a regress and be blessed past-life specialist, she transforms in an instant. While the setup and cast are intriguing, the script
Nektarios (Aris Servetalis) was a Greek priest from Alexandria, Egypt in the 1900s. Now, more than a century after his death, he is worshiped by Greek nationals on the inside and outside of those boundaries. He is not well known outside of that community, however. To raise awareness about him, a Greek Christian studio approved
Did you know there is a “Talking Heads” documentary that is incredibly funny, informative, and even thrilling? If you’re anything like me, you probably haven’t heard of one. So strap on your boardshorts and sunscreen, because I’m about to tell you about one of the most entertaining cinema experiences I have had in a long
I won’t say that I was skeptical at first, but The Tall Man is a film that definitely caught me off guard. I vividly remember being ten and thinking to myself that it couldn’t get any more predictable than this: Up until the 50-minute mark, deception and misdirection cold stunned me. I knew I was
The opening scene is reminiscent of a backwoods horror scenario, gruesome and filthy, leaving behind a skulk of corpses and an upset stomach. Yet, even at those highly familiar places, director Clay Staub makes a sharp turn. Staub weakens the graphic violence in achieving the bloodshed and shifts the action forward to set a tone
It’s no secret that the standards of Woody Allen’s work declined dramatically after exiting his mid-cinematic masterpieces like Annie Hall, Manhattan, and Stardust Memories. For every outstanding Zelig, there was an underwhelming Purple Rose of Cairo plus a Shadow and Fog. Husbands and Wives was followed by Alice and the trend only grew worse with
