They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for May, 2015
San Andreas (2015)
San Andreas is exactly what you think it is – it’s a disaster movie with a capital D. The trailers deliver what they promise: a catastrophic event rocks Southern California while our foreground heroes run from falling concrete blocks, power lines, glass, tidal waves, wrecked cars and falling buildings. Meanwhile, your standard lone-nut scientist decries […]
Vacation (2015)
In the course of sitting through the godawful new Vacation sequel, I find that my mind drifts not to the Chevy Chase classic but to the recent remake of Poltergeist. Both are unnecessary down to their very core and neither gives any indication that the filmmakers had any real desire to make a movie that […]
Poltergeist (2015)
It is very likely that the remake of Poltergeist may be impossible to enjoy on any level. If, like me, you’re a connoisseur of the original and look on it with fond memories, this retread will come off as a soulless carbon copy. If you’ve never seen Steven Spielberg’s film, then this will come off […]
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
What a grand, insane work of vision is Mad Max: Fury Road. What a bold and visionary exercise has George Miller created. In a world of action movies that are mostly thin soup, this is what you wish for from all of your action movies: something created out of sheer ingenuity and imagination, a movie […]
Maggie (2015)
It is possible that Maggie may be the best misfire of the year. It’s a thriller that doesn’t ultimately work, but you almost feel the need to applaud the effort. Odd to say, but that’s kind of refreshing. In a year that is offering us a vast minefield of movies in which no one even […]
Presenting Princess Shaw (2015)
I suppose it says something now that the idea of anyone becoming a star has taken on the same randomness as the outcome of a game of roulette. You are either discovered or you’re not, talent is more or less beside the point. There are millions of people on YouTube, some more talented than others […]
Spider-Man – A Disembodied Audio Commentary
My full-blooded audio commentary for Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man.
