Review| Furious 7: A Furious Family Love
Just when you thought the Fast and Furious crew had taken their “last ride,” the almighty dollar, er, the need to tell the next chapter in the series brings audiences the seventh installment. In case you had thought that fully…
Review | Spring
Sci-Fi and horror are two unique dramas that allow filmmakers the space to create movies with unique visuals, obviously. But, it also gives filmmakers an alternate way to deal with complex inner-life and outer-life issues. From the meta realities of…
Review | The Overnighters
A couple of weeks ago I got the chance to do an extended review of the very high quality documentary by Jess Moss, The Overnighters, over at Reel Thinking. For those of you who might have missed it, here is that review…
Review | Home
Boasting the same creators of How to Train Your Dragon and The Croods, both excellent movies that have received very different critical reactions. The former received the lauding of critics and is one of the most well-loved kids movies of the past ten…
Review | It Follows
Like so many horror movies before it—Halloween, Friday the 13th, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Thing, to name a few—Robert David Mitchell’s It Follows is about sex, which, of course, has very specific connotations in the genre and is replete with…
Review | Insurgent
One of the best things going for The Hunger Games, as it wraps up it’s four-part movie trilogy this November, is the absolute rock Jennifer Lawrence has proved to be. The strength of a book adaptation is going to be…
Review| Song of the Sea
Looking back at the five nominees for Best Animated Feature Film of the Year for the 2014 year in movies, a surprising majority of the movies deal with loss, community, and family. Big Hero 6 dealt with loss and healing…
Review | Chappie
Neill Blomkamp certainly blew me away with his first directorial effort, 2009’s Sci-Fi smash District 9. Boasting some incredible CGI aliens, as well as a breakout performance by fellow South African Sharlto Copley, it hit all the right Sci-Fi notes and…
Review | As It Is In Heaven
There is something absolutely fascinating about cults and the psychology of cults. Of all the things that I could have spent a lot of time on in college in my Religious Studies courses, I was drawn to understanding and learning…
Review| The Grand Budapest Hotel: We’re Brothers
“You see, there are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. Indeed that’s what we provide in our own modest, humble, insignificant… oh, f*** it.” –M. Gustave In one week, I…