Dunkirk
The movie industry giving us less reason to go to the theatre, but movies like Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk have the power to bring us back. Few film directors can lay claim to having a marquee-level...
View ArticleA Ghost Story
Nevermind the capes and cowls — one of the year’s best films is a quiet meditation on grief, with Casey Affleck wearing only a sheet. In a season filled with capes and franchises galore it perhaps...
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10 Good Movies with Bad IMDB Ratings
Imdb is great for information on a production; it’s a garbage fire from a critical perspective. Here are some great movies with low imdb ratings. A while back, the Internet Movie Database (imdb)...
View ArticleThe Dark Tower
You could probably have stopped at the goosebumpy trailer for Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, because this garbage fire of a movie couldn’t measure up. There is a stringent and ardent fanbase of author...
View ArticleIngrid Goes West
Aubrey Plaza stars in Ingrid Goes West, which follows in the footsteps of movies like Swimfan and Scorsese’s The King of Comedy, injecting modern sensibilities. Social media has given us the ability to...
View ArticleLogan Lucky
Soderbergh moves back from television to film with Logan Lucky, starring Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, and a decidedly non-Bond Daniel Craig. A helluva good time. Director Steven Soderbergh is one of...
View ArticleBeatriz at Dinner
Beatriz at Dinner, though it was written a couple of years ago, feels like a movie that was made for 2017’s politically divisive Trumpy times. Ugh, she’s a hugger. Beatriz is a Mexican-American massage...
View ArticleIt
More than two decades after the TV movie, Stephen King’s ‘It’ is back with a theatrical version that has broken the box office wide open. In 1990, a much younger Brando sat down with his friends to...
View ArticleAnnabelle: Creation
Annabelle: Creation is a prequel to a spinoff or whatever, and yet, it manages to rise above its roots to actually be something worth watching. Let me start by saying that I hate prequels. I think they...
View ArticleKingsman: The Golden Circle
More of the same (and perhaps reaching for a bigger universe it doesn’t earn), Kingsman 2 isn’t terrible, but, you know, it ain’t great either. Coming in hot two years after director Matthew Vaughn’s...
View ArticleBlade Runner 2049
A review of Blade Runner 2049 turns into a mini rant about the state of cinema and culture. See, a great movie makes you think. The original Blade Runner has been a piece of art in motion, morphing and...
View ArticleHappy Death Day
Groundhog Day meets Scream in Happy Death Day, a horror movie from the director of Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones. Eh, it’s okay, I guess. It’s Groundhog Day meets Scream for one unlucky young...
View ArticleThe Babysitter
McG is back! Wait, no one’s excited about that prospect. But he made The Babysitter for Netflix, a bit of a turd in the punchbowl. The Black List is an annual list of the “most liked” movie screenplays...
View ArticleThe Snowman
Once you can stop snickering at the name of the main character, Harry Hole, you can probably pass on this snowy, choking avalanche of rubbish. The new film The Snowman presented itself to audiences...
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Destroyer – ken
Dan Bejar was missing from The New Pornographer’s new album, most likely because he was recording his new one, ‘ken,’ an exploratory, but consistent record. This year’s ‘Whiteout Conditions,’ the...
View ArticleSuburbicon
Suburbicon is the new film from George Clooney, stepping behind the camera with a Coen Brothers script. So much pedigree, but it’s hit and miss. Usually the names “Coen” and “Clooney” go together like...
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Murder Made Easy
Murder Made Easy is a dark, funny movie that feels like a twisted Agatha Christie play in the right ways, as murder is made delicious. I found it kind of humorous, for a number of reasons, that part of...
View ArticleThor: Ragnarok
The third Thor movie proves that there’s still a lot of fun in the Marvel tank and places to explore for the God of Thunder. It’s been a couple of months since the last mega-budget, VFX-heavy comic...
View ArticleThe Florida Project
Sean Baker, director of Tangerine, has made another cinematic masterpiece with The Florida Project, a story of poverty in the shadow of Disney World. Sean Baker’s Tangerine was my favourite film of...
View ArticleBonehill Road
Emily and Eden Stevens escape one violent situation only to dive head first into another in Todd Sheets’, Bonehill Road, a decidedly hairy werewolf horror. I haven’t seen many decent lycan films since...
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