Australia truly is a dangerous place. If the giant spiders, crocodiles or box jellyfish don’t kill you, the roving bands of albino raiders certainly will. “Mad Max: Fury Road” is the fourth film in George Miller’s “Mad Max” series, and represents the maximum plunge of the series into a quagmire of pure, joyous madness. This isn’t a detriment, however,...
In 2011, Ken Scott directed a French-Canadian film called “Starbuck,” a heartwarming story about a slacker 40-something who finds out that he has fathered 500 children due to his sperm donations at a fertility clinic. Despite being a Canadian hit, the only attention the film received was from viewers randomly searching through the foreign movie category on Netflix.
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Let me preface this review by stating: this is a cruel and complex film, for a cruel and complex reality. "Sicario" which means “hitman” in Spanish, is Denis Villeneuve's fourth film and stars Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro. The narrative focuses on a state agent, Kate Mercer (Emily Blunt) who is recruited by a federal task...
Ever since his first appearance in 1941, Aquaman has always been pegged below his contemporaries. Several attempts to portray the hero seriously have yielded mixed results at best, leaving the hero who talked to fish lacking the same admiration as the likes of Batman or Superman. With that said, the newest installment in the DC cinematic universe takes Aquaman...
While he is an amazing satirist in front of the camera with expressive hand gestures and funny rants, Jon Stewart is a tad awkward as a director in his first movie, “Rosewater.” Based on Mazier Bahari’s imprisonment in an Iranian government’s jail for being an alleged spy, the film accomplishes its main goal — discussing the need to protect...
Going into the theater with limited knowledge on the subject of the film, you might expect the typical World War II movie here, full of camaraderie between soldiers and intense dogfights fought overseas. If those are the types of war films you enjoy, don’t expect that from “Unbroken.” Instead, “Unbroken” is a film that highlights the struggles of Louis...
Already slammed by critics, Nima Nourizadeh's directorial debut is garnering negative reviews across the nation. Toted as being a complete waste of a film that only focuses on booze, boobs and amoral debauchery, “Project X” is a teenager's ultimate party wet dream come true. Sure, it's suppose to be a senior “high school” party, but producer Todd Phillips, who...
Hollywood has been on a kick lately with films like “Jack the Giant Slayer” and “Snow White and the Huntsman” — and television as well with “Once Upon a Time” — trying to breathe new life into, and cash in on, fables that were dominated decades ago by Disney. Not one to be left out of a trend however,...
Across three and a half hours, Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” recounts the wealth that oil had brought to the Osage community, the white offcomers that suffused and the string of Osage serial killings that followed. The film towers and harrows, depicting the unadulterated exploitation that forged 20th-century America and continued the country’s vulturous relationship with its...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has increasingly grown into unexpected territories, primarily within entertainment in recent years. Though AI has been tainted with negative perceptions, the entertainment industry has had several projects in the past (e.g. M3GAN, Ex Machina) that focus more on the ingenuity of this form of technology. AI is typically depicted as a threat to the human race,...