He did it — Jordan Peele, one half of the brains behind the cult classic “Key and Peele” sketch comedy show, made a (damn good) horror film. “Get Out” is a daring feat that hits hard in 2017, an exhilarating, psychological half-breed that owes a great deal to Ira Levin as much as it does the racially charged context...
Folks, it’s Oscars season and we all know what that means. That’s right, “La La Land” unsurprisingly will outperform everything both foreign and domestic because the Academy loves itself some masturbatory congratulations. But aside from that, it exposes many people to the greatness that is foreign cinema.
“The Salesman” is Iran’s entry for Best Foreign Film at this year’s Academy...
I’m so glad I brought a punching bag with me into the theater on Friday to vent out my frustration with this film. This half-cocked film, “Fist Fight,” presents a bizarre premise riddled with superfluous F-bombs and disappointing, crass jokes that recur with no landing punchline.
It’s Roosevelt High’s last day of school, and all the seniors go ape-shit...
In an age when each month’s obligatory superhero movie is a lot darker and grittier than one would really want, “The Lego Batman Movie” is both the superhero movie we deserve, and the one we need right now. A terrific satire of the superhero genre, mixed with loads of humor, excellent voice work and more bat-puns than you can...
It seems that taking original films and creating stale sequels and reboots has become sort of a tradition in Hollywood; in fact, sitting through any set of movie trailers it seems like stale sequels and reboots is all that the American film industry is capable of anymore. Therefore, I had serious reservations about the notion of a sequel to...
“The Founder” is as American as a film can get, for better or for worse. As Richard Brody points out in his review for The Atlantic, it proves that director John Lee Hancock found his niche narrative – that of discovery of one’s untapped potential. But in this film, the “founder” (pun definitely intended), of said potential takes the...
Remember “The Happening”? What a stinker. Remember “Unbreakable”? What a classic. For a little over 10 years, director M. Night Shyamalan has been putting out nothing but heaps of garbage like “The Happening,” forcing audiences to wonder how the man was likened to Alfred Hitchcock early on in his career. Some credited 2015’s “The Visit” as a return-to-form for...
You know him, I know him. Martin Scorsese needs no introduction. “Silence” is the product of a 25 year-long production period — a passion project if there ever was one — based on the novel of the same name by Shusaku Endo. Andrew Garfield stars as missionary Sebastiao Rodrigues who, alongside Jesuit Francisco Garupe (Adam Driver), travels to seaside...
“Hidden Figures” tells an untold yet, remarkable true story of three intelligent African-American women who contributed to the many firsts of NASA’s historic space launches. Though, in a segregated Virginia of 1961, the ingenious minds behind complex math calculations and computer expertise at NASA were discriminated against trivially due to their race and sex. The film acknowledges the overt...
As 2017 opens before us, and the potential for so many new possibilities begin, we here at Radar wanted to highlight some of the projects we are excited about in the upcoming year. From new gaming consoles, to promising films and albums, there is a plethora of exciting projects to look forward to.
“Silence” by Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese’s upcoming film,...