Exhibiting Forgiveness (2024)
Opening Birmingham Alabama’s 26th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival [...]
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Twisters (2024)
Twisters isn’t exactly a sequel to Jan de Bont’s beloved 1996 tornado spectacle, its more of a remake-quel with, again, impressive visual effects and eardrum-rattling sound design placed around the story of a bunch of thrill-seeking hillbilly scientists who are about as deep as the puddle in your driveway. It gives you what you want, […]
Black Adam (2022)
Black Adam is a bit much, even as far as these brobdinagian CG-heavy superhero movies go. With only fleeting bits of charm from star Dwayne Johnson, this is yet another over-produced bulk that reaffirms the timidity of current studio-driven product. It’s expensive, with lots of light and color and sound, but at its center it […]
Suicide Squad (2016)
It may be just the nature of the premise itself, but Suicide Squad feels oddly scummy. There’s a pall of filth and grime that seems to permeate this movie not just from the production design but from the characters themselves. Watching the movie you feel like you’re hanging out with a bunch of prison lifers […]
Nerve (2016)
Nerve is a safe, tepid treatment of a subject that is so current you’d swear the movie was made only yesterday. It’s about our all-consuming obsession with apps and online games that arrives just at the moment when half of the country is mired in ‘Pokémon Go‘ and the other half wishes they’d just put […]
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2013)
Do you remember that scene in Crocodile Dundee where Mick sees a TV in his hotel room and tells his companion that he’s only seen television once? He then turns on the set and sees “I Love Lucy” and says “Yup, that’s what I saw.” That’s kind how I feel about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: […]
The Intern (2015)
The Intern is like a stack of pancakes. It’s warm, sweet and leaves you with a touch of a belly ache. You are, no doubt, drawn in by the casting and who could resist a movie that brings together Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway? They’re the best actors of their respective generations, but – […]
Maps to the Stars (2015)
The idea of David Cronenberg taking a jaded look at Hollywood seems irresistible, especially considering the themes of his work. He’s a gonzo artist whose films are always about the bizarre and the grotesque – he made The Fly, Eastern Promises, A History of Violence, Videodrome and The Dead Zone. The very idea that he […]
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 […]
