The 40-Year-Old Version
The title is obviously a play on the Steve Carrell starring film from 2005 and it does share some of the same elements of comedy, but the similarities end there. [...]
Road to the Oscars: Paul Schrader Retrospective
With many stellar screenplays in his array that include Sydney Pollack's "The Yakuza" (1975), Brian De Palma's "Obsession" (1976), Johnny Flynn's "Rolling Thunder" (1978), Peter Weir's "The Mosquito Coast"(1986), Martin [...]
Road to the Oscars: BlackKklansman
Spike Lee's "BlackKklansman" purports itself in being a satirical comedy about racism that ties in modern parallels with the current Trump administration and the script comes off potent, yet [...]
Road to the Oscars: Bohemian Rhapsody
Crafting a biopic of music icon Freddie Mercury and the rock band Queen, the latest Oscar hopeful contender movie "Bohemian Rhapsody" offers your typical biopic cliches and trappings. The film [...]
Remember
Remember (2016, Canada/Germany, d. Atom Egoyan, 94 Minutes) By Jesse Stringer Remember follows the character of Zev Guttman, an elderly man suffering from dementia who also happens [...]
Triple 9
Triple 9 (2016, USA, d. John Hillcoat, 115 Minutes) by Jesse Stringer It is learned early on in this film that Triple 9 is a police code meaning [...]