How To Train Your Dragon
How To Train Your Dragon is a live-action remake of the 2010 animated film, from writer and director Dean DeBlois, who also served the same function for the original. Based [...]
The Phoenician Scheme
The Phoenician Scheme, the latest work of writer-director Wes Anderson, is another in a long line of films about a very specific time, place and type of person and set [...]
Lilo & Stitch
Lilo and Stitch is a live-action remake of the 2002 animated film of the same name, and that carries certain expectations. Disney has been churning these out in droves since [...]
Final Destination: Bloodlines
Horror is a tricky genre to get right. It requires a delicate balancing of elements, namely suspense, emotion, levity, the grotesque and the unnerving, among others. For as many films [...]
The Amateur
The Amateur is the newest film from director James Hawes, starring Rami Malek as Charlie Heller, a government analyst who loses his wife in a terrorist attack. Following this tragedy, [...]
Holland
Holland, the newest Nicole Kidman vehicle, continues the star’s downward trajectory into predictable pap. Set in the tulip-lined streets of Holland, Michigan, the film is a fly-over tourist’s idea of Michigan. [...]
Bob Trevino Likes It
Bob Trevino Likes It is one of those films that sneaks up on you. Drawn from the real life experiences of its writer and director, Tracie Laymon, the film tells [...]
Pavements
Pavements is an unusual work. Described by its writer/director as a “semiotic experience” this four-pronged look at the rock band, Pavement, will most likely appeal to die-hard fans of the group [...]
The Friend
The Friend is the newest film from Scott McGehee and David Siegel, based on an experimental, semi-autobiographical novel by Sigrid Nunez. Nunez had written the work in order to reach friends that she [...]
Magazine Dreams
Magazine Dreams is the newest film from writer/director Elijah Bynum, last seen as the co-writer of the Lee Daniels dud, The Deliverance. Here, opting for a cast of much lesser-known [...]