Don’t look too deeply for an explanation to Plus One, Dennis Iliadis’ foray into the science-fictioney thriller realm. You’ll hurt your brain if you do even worse than the dull, damaged brains of everyone starring in the movie. When a meteorite hits the ground it couldn’t have come any sooner for David (Rhys Wakefield, “The…
How far would you go to find your child if he or she were missing? What laws would or should a parent break to make sure they could have their babies back again? These are the fundamental questions asked in the newest film directed by Denis Villeneuve (“Incendies“), Prisoners, which tells the tale of a…
The battle for man’s mind, body and soul has waged since the Garden of Eden and nearly as long on film. It’s not necessarily the easiest theme to convey properly but one infinitely easier to do well using martial arts as the catalyst. I’d gather this is one of the driving reasons Keanu Reeves, a…
Scarlett Johansson can use her sexuality against me anytime. Even if she is an alien and is using me as some form of food source or as a resource for her home world. By the way, that’s exactly what she is and is doing in the independent science fiction thriller Under the Skin. The trailer,…
There is a sketch in the comedy InAPPropriate Comedy which features a racist guy hawking free boat rides to Africa to black passerbys. Unexpectedly — or at least I hope it wasn’t planned — one guy takes offense (and rightfully so) and proceeds to beat the living crap out of said white supremacist, continuing even…
Party ’til you wake the dead. That seems to be what friends, Brad (J.R. Villarreal) and Sergio (Carlos Santos) have done in the upcoming found-footage ghost comedy Ghost Team One. But taking it several steps further and capitalizing on the apparent paranormal activity, the clueless guys elicit the help from local hottie, Fernanda (Fernanda Romero),…
Jayne Mansfield’s Car is a tedious, depressing dysfunctional film about a tedious, depressing, dysfunctional pair of families, headed by patriarchs Robert Duvall and John Hurt, respectively. It seems that 30 years before, Kingsley Bedford (Hurt) stole Jim Caldwell’s (Duvall) wife, Naomi (Tippi Hedren, whose most famous role was in Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds“) and took…
