They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for December, 2016
The Life and Times of a Princess: Carrie Fisher (1956 – 2016)
As a child, I think Princess Leia may have been my first love. If, like me, you grew up in the generation of little kids whose first movie going experience was Star Wars, then it was hard not to fall in love with the princess and by extension Carrie Fisher. How could I not have […]
Moana (2016)
Disney’s Moana finally crosses my path almost a month after its national debut, right here on Christmas Day – a little mele kalikimaka from America’s unofficial dream factory. My first observation: It’s Disney, it’s very very Disney, from top to bottom. This movie couldn’t be Disney if you showed it in the theme park in […]
Patriot’s Day (2016)
I’ll admit that I did not approach Peter Berg’s Patriot’s Day with a lot of enthusiasm, particularly given his lackluster product in the past. His filmography constantly rides a B- whether he’s patching together big-budget wannabes like Battleship and Hancock or delving into recent history with Lone Survivor and Deep Water Horizon. It is the […]
The Eyes of My Mother (2016)
There is generally nothing wrong with an art house horror movie. I’m always game, whether it be something as bizarre as Eraserhead, as creepy as The VVItch or possibly as forgotten as Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears, I’m always on board for the unpredictable nature of indie horror . . . . . . […]
Rogue One (2016)
It is understandable to approach Rogue One – the Star Wars saga’s first stand-alone adventure – with a touch of trepidation. Massive experiments in narrative time-bending have never been this series’ strong point. I must admit that, up until I saw the movie, I had been predicting that it would be a stem-to-stern appetizer, a movie […]
