Greed
Michael Winterbottom's latest film, "Greed" is his most overtly political comedy, a outraged satire on inequality that wears its political agenda on its sleeves but doesn't engage well on a [...]
Downhill
It's very redundant and very common to be sour when Hollywood remakes exceptional international films. In the case of "Downhill", an American remake of the 2014 outstanding Swedish hit film written [...]
Underwater
Deep below the surface of the ocean, within the Mariana Trench, the Tian cooperation is drilling the sea floor for resources. Among the crew of this complex rig is Nora [...]
Spies in Disguise
In the high octane world of secret agents, there is no better spy than Lance Sterling (Will Smith). He’s one of the agency’s top agents, able to take down the [...]
Bombshell
A few years ago the whole deck of cards collapsed over sex abuse scandals within the media. The Me Too movement encouraged many women to come forward to express the [...]
The Two Popes
Reflecting back on the past decade, we have had quite a few memorable films about clerics wrestling with their faith, such as Martin Scorsese's 2016 masterpiece "Silence", Paul Schrader's "First [...]
21 Bridges
We first meet NYPD detective, Andre Davis (Chadwick Boseman), as he is investigated by Internal Affairs after having fired his weapon for the 8th time in his 10 years on [...]
Motherless Brooklyn
In New York City during the 1950s, change is happening. The divides between races among the populace is causing protest and violence to spiral out of control. The rich are [...]
Pain and Glory
Every so often do we see a great auteur do their own riff on Federico Fellini's "8 1/2", the 1963 masterpiece movie that ultimately launched the meta, film within a [...]
Zombieland: Double Tap
Zombieland, USA, 2019. 10 years have passed since we last saw our heroes Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), Wichita (Emma Stone), and Little Rock (Abagail Breslin). In the time [...]