I think the first order of business after completing this review would be to sue Warner Brothers, as well as other makers of this film for long-term effects of seizures due to the constant and — at times — almost unbearably shaky, vibrating and just plain jumpy “Cloverfield“-like camera work employed by director Courtney Solomon…
2013 is apparently the year of Ethan Hawke. Aside from starring in the romance drama, “Before Midnight,” and the horror science-fiction flick, “The Purge,” he’s also racing through the streets in Getaway. Borrowing tropes from movies like “Drive,” “Transporter 2” and “Fast and Furious 6” he’s tasked with doing the bidding of the man who…
Pain & Gain, the true life story of three bumbling bodybuilding losers in Miami, may just be director Michael Bay’s best film. However, considering that he brought movies like “Pearl Harbor,” “Bad Boys II” and “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” (the worse of all the poor Transformers flicks) to the big screen, that’s not saying…
Jaded as I am regarding cinema of this sort, I have to admit that this newest release had me for about 75 percent of its short 95-minute running time. The conclusion, however, taken right from “The Silence of the Lambs,” left a bitter taste. Not enough to pan the entire enterprise, but well, there’s that…
Seven Psychopaths may be the best movie title of the year. Martin McDonagh certainly has a way of coming up with apt and memorable titles for the audience to carry around with them, he is also responsible for “In Bruges.” One could easily argue that Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson were also psychopaths in “In…
Marty’s friends have a lucrative scam going. They kidnap people’s dogs and return them several days later for reward money. No harm, no foul, right? Wrong. When they liberate the beloved Shih Tzu from a local gangster, they find themselves in a world of shit and Marty, unfortunately, finds himself knee deep in it too….
Subtlety has always been a foreign concept to Oliver Stone, even back when he was in great form, so it’s not exactly surprising when various characters make a pitiful attempt at thematic commentary by blatantly spitting out the title in Stone’s latest movie, a wobbly, wandering drug dealers vs. cartels thriller. But while a few…
