In Hollywood, if you are an old distinguished male actor, you either become Batman’s sidekick or a WWII veteran who escapes from assisted living (Michael Caine), God or a grieving father (Morgan Freeman), an Indiana Jones or brilliant psychotherapist (Harrison Ford), an action hero (Tom Cruise), Sigmund Freud and a Roman emperor (Sir Anthony Hopkins), …
Sharks, absolutely deadly as they are known to be, have also been found out that they are sort of dumb. The Last Breath is a cheesy new thriller which is even dumber than an actual shark. Not that it has any real sharks— the predator creatures here are CGI ones and paradoxically enough, they move …
“Hundreds of Beavers,” a boldly bizarre, almost silent comedy about a trapper warring with natural forces in the 19th-century and its title is not mere words but it lives up to it. I counted thousands of beavers in this movie. Thousands! And oh my god are they evil creatures! The BADL (Beaver Anti-Defamation League) will …
People from all over the world come to Washington, D.C. daily to see historic sites. As the documentary “War Game” starts, a man in his car looks out through windshield and after that takes pictures of Washington Monument. He isn’t a tourist posting local landmarks on Instagram; he quietly tells another person traveling with him …
Pop music can change everything. This forms the basis of M. Night Shyamalan’s near miss thriller “Trap,” a movie that to me feels less like the Night Brand than many of his other twisting turners, stripped-down version of Shyamalan that needs a few more passes at its rawest ideas and furthering its visual language. When …
Max (Ruaridh Mollica) resembles a lot of young authors I met when I was in my twenties. Sebastian is quite ambitious, intelligent, and extremely eloquent while discussing his favorite type of art that in his case is literature and works by enfant terrible writer Bret Easton Ellis. Max is a little bit too proud for …
The idea of making a film out of Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson’s 1955 tribute to the power of imagination (as an act of love, I give every baby born to a friend or family member a copy of the book with a purple crayon stuck inside), has always made me somewhat anxious. …
Once upon a time, the name Hammer meant something significant in horror film history – between the 1950s and early ‘70s, you could have accurately described some of the most campy, trashiest and entertaining monster films ever made as “Hammeresque,” from classic Universal re-tellings to science-fiction Quatermass adventures. However, the opening credits for Company’s “Doctor …
Steven Kanter and Henry Loevner, the two co-directors (who worked together on “The End of Us”, a COVID-based comedy), have come together for their sophomore feature “Peak Season.” Amy (Claudia Restrepo) and Max (Ben Coleman), an engaged couple, escape from New York City to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The towering mountains and huge landscapes make it …
“Detained” will be an unsatisfactory film for you if the absence of any trace of coherent human behaviour is a problem for you. but on the other hand, it is filled with simple pleasures that make it undeniably captivating escapism. It is so heightened by “The Usual Suspects,” it even has a weird villain who …
