They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for May, 2016
X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
I don’t know what I really expected from a guy named Apocalypse, but I can tell you that my imagination built up a much more imposing character than what his movie was able to deliver. I mean, he’s alright as villains go. In his early scenes, he’s got the presence and the demeanor and the […]
Tickled (2016)
When it was all over, I turned to my friend and asked “Was that for real?” If you see the movie, then you’ll be just as skeptical as I was. You keep telling yourself that since this is a documentary that you want to believe that what you’re seeing is true. Much like Catfish, you […]
Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Times being what they are, it was impossible for me to sit through Captain America: Civil War without comparing it to that other comic book conflict movie that bowed six weeks ago. Where that movie was a clunky, misguided, unhappy mess, the latest Captain America movie has its head on straight, it tells a good […]
Sunset Song (2015)
I have a friend who refers to British director Terence Davies as the Terence Malick for people who require the textures and a plot. Admittedly, Malick often requires you to supply your own. Davies’ work is similar in tone, dealing with love, loss and sometimes reconciliation when it doesn’t end in tragedy. His best work, […]
A Study in The Force
Welcome A Study in The Force. Here I wanted to give some acknowledgement to a series that, in many ways, made a movie-lover out of me. But how to do that? There’s so much stuff out there with regards to Star Wars that I wouldn’t know where to start. My first idea here was to […]
Keanu (2016)
Keanu might very well be the cutest violent action comedy that I’ve ever seen. Seriously, it’s adorable. It features a kitten that draws the “awwwww” from the audience every time it mews, but it’s surrounded by violence at every turn. There’s a moment in this movie when we see a severed hand in the foreground […]
