Movie Reviews

Before even seeing Race, it already had a couple things going against it.  The first is that, even though it is a sports movie, it isn’t about basketball or football or one of the major, more exciting sports.  It is about track and field, a sport people only care about every four years.  The second thing is that we know the ending already because it is one of the most historic moments in Olympic and…

Thanks to a sweet Comic-Con sizzle reel and tons of campaigning from fans and star Ryan Reynolds, we are finally given the much anticipated and much sought after Deadpool movie.  But, after the debacle that was X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), where they ruined Deadpool as a character, some fans and moviegoers may have some reservations about the film. Fear not Deadpoolers, Deadpool is everything you wanted and more.  This is a vulgar, violent, hilarious, action packed,…

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies just sounds ridiculous.  Based off the extremely popular novel, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies takes the classic Jane Austen novel about tangled relationships in 19th century England and throws a zombie apocalypse in the middle of it all.  It is a unique twist on classical cinema and on the zombie genre, that narrow minded viewers will find stupid. The only way to watch Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is to…

Having hit a new career high with 2013’s masterful musical dramedy Inside Llewyn Davis, The Coen Brother’s come back to the comedy genre with Hail, Caesar!, a very weird, and very dry comedy that only The Coen’s could make. Hail, Caesar! takes a look at the day in the life of Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin), a Hollywood fixer for Capital Pictures in the 1950’s, who cleans up any and all issues with big names and…

Sometimes when watching a movie, you just want to have fun.  You don’t always need heavy drama or a great twist, you just want to laugh and have an enjoyable experience.  The Fundamentals of Caring is one of the most enjoyable screenings I have had at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.  It is a sweet, funny, quotable road movie with a ton of heart. Paul Rudd stars as Ben, a man dealing with incredible loss…

Kevin Smith has done it again.  Yoga Hosers is the second film in his True North Trilogy, following 2014’s unsettling yet brilliant Tusk, and it is a wildly inventive, insane, hilarious Canadian horror comedy that only Smith could come up with. Yoga Hosers tells the story of Colleen Collette and Colleen McKenzie (Lily-Rose Melody Depp and Harley Quinn Smith), two social-media obsessed Sophomores who work at a convenient store.  One night, the Colleen’s get invited to…

I liked The Free World as two separate films.  The first half of the movie is a love mystery where we find Bo (Boyd Holbrook), a recently released convict, getting involved with Doris (Kate Moss), a married woman with an abusive husband.  How those two meet and what transpires between them is interesting to watch.  Bo was known as an extremely violent inmate while in prison, so much so that he even put a cop into…

Let me give you a little insight into my festival life.  When I am at the Sundance Film Festival, sleep is a very rare, but treasured thing.  I think throughout the festival, I average four hours of sleep a night.  I volunteer until around 2:00am every night and occasionally party until the sun rises.  Movies here start screening as early as 8:30am, which means for me to get to a screening and get a ticket,…

In July of 1974, Florida news reporter Christine Chubbuck went live on the air and shot herself, marking the first suicide ever recorded on television.  Christine chronicles Chubbuck’s life the weeks leading up to her tragic end. Rebecca Hall plays Christine and she is unbelievable.  Hall gets lost in the role and gives the best performance of her career.  She becomes Christine by changing her voice and giving Christine mannerisms, like walking with her head down…

Nate Parker has been one of my favorite actors for a few years now.  I first saw him in 2012’s Red Hook Summer and he immediately stood out to me.  He really impressed me later that year in Arbitrage, where he gave the best performance in that entire film and that includes a never better Richard Gere.  And then, in 2013’s Beyond the Lights, Parker, much like the movie, was excellent but overlooked.  Parker is…