They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for February, 2015
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
Being an actor must be one of the most psychologically tasking professions that man has yet created. You’re asked to move from skin to skin, from soul to soul, from psychology to psychology, from paying gig to paying gig, and also to traverse the minefield of box office success. If you’re successful, you’re asked to […]
The 87th Academy Awards: A noble affair.
It is very rare when the host of the Academy Awards manages to pull off the best and most spontaneous moment of the very long evening. Following the win by J.K. Simmons for Best Supporting Actor as the ferocious music teacher in Whiplash Sunday night, host Neil Patrick Harris retorted by paraphrasing the jingle for […]
The Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)
It may someday come to pass that when I get around to making a list of the best action movies I’ve ever seen, The Kingsman: The Secret Service may find itself right there in the midst of other greats like Die Hard, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Speed, Aliens and The Terminator. After the blight […]
The DUFF (2015)
The hurt on Bianca’s face is appropriate the day she is informed by an otherwise good friend that her place in the high school pecking order is to be “The DUFF” – The Designated Ugly Fat Friend, meaning that she is the friend that other girls keep around to make themselves look more attractive. “It’s […]
Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (2015)
I’ve already seen one miserable movie this year about a group of guys who do horrible things to each other, and here I am just a few weeks later dealing with another one. The chief difference between The Loft and Hot Tub Time Machine 2 is that one is a thriller and the other is […]
The Best Films of 2014
Okay, I know this is a little late, but I my motivation is an effort to be fair. I wanted to see enough really great year-end films that I could put together a Best List that I was comfortable with. In doing so, I found that this was a much better year than I initially […]
Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
It is sort of a sad commentary that Fifty Shades of Grey is threatening to become the perennial erotica of the 21st century. At a time when nudity and four-letter words have slipped onto basic cable and the internet provides free porn 24/7, here is a commercial product that offers steamy sex that is – […]
