Film Review: Second Act (2018)
byChristmas approaches and with it, a slew of feel-good films. Some good, some bad, some utter catastrophes. Second Act, directed by Peter Segal, falls…
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Film Review: Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
byFollowing an Oscar nomination for Bridesmaids back in 2012, Melissa McCarthy is getting Oscar buzz again for her starring role in Can You Ever…
Film Review: The Grinch (2018)
byAnother month passes, another moderate success from the last 30 years gets remade. On the roulette wheel of Hollywood desperately searching for new franchises…
Film Review: You Might Be The Killer (2018)
byHorror as a genre has weathered every change that filmmaking movements and social change can throw at it. As the popular, if untrue, adage…
Film Review: Puzzle (2018)
byIf ever there was to be an award for clearest metaphor, Marc Turtletaub (Little Miss Sunshine) would win it hands down for Puzzle — a…
Film Review: Sorry to Bother You (2018)
byAcerbic and hysterical, Sorry to Bother You, directed and written by Boots Riley, is a scathing indictment of capitalism. Imagining an alternative vision of…
Film Review: Anna and the Apocalypse (2017)
byFollowing the success of his short film Zombie Musical in 2011, the late Ryan McHenry (responsible for the ‘Ryan Gosling Won’t Eat His Cereal’…
Film Review: Robin Hood (2018)
byAs Otto Bathurst‘s Robin Hood begins, Friar Tuck (Tim Minchin) implores us to forget everything we think we know about Robin Hood. It’s an ambitious thought. You…
Film Review: Drug Stories (2018)
byEveryone at one stage or another has been told by someone not to get into narcotics. The effort behind that dissuasion can vary depending…
Film Review: An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn (2018)
byThings aren’t going great for Lulu Danger (Aubrey Plaza) when her manager and husband Shane (Emile Hirsch) fires her from the crappy restaurant diner…