[springboard type=”video” id=”1561059″ player=”tmbg001″ width=”599″ height=”336″ ] A single mother finds that things in her family’s life go very wrong after her two young children visit their estranged grandparents. Grandma’s demented and Grandpa’s incontinent in M. Night Shyamalan’s The Visit. A mother’s (Kathryn Hahn) estranged parents get in … [Read More]
Are you ready for some football? I’m not. That’s why I need a movie marathon of football films to remind myself what the game is all about—hits, cursing, colorful field patterns, and H2O. Let’s look at a list of five popular classics that actually stink and replace them with five … [Read More]
[springboard type=”video” id=”1553827″ player=”tmbg001″ width=”599″ height=”336″ ] Synopsis: When corrupt Roman leader Tiberius arrives with a giant army to claim the Silk Road, Huo An teams up his army with an elite Legion of defected Roman soldiers led by General Lucius to protect his country and his new friends. There is a … [Read More]
[springboard type=”video” id=”1554735″ player=”tmbg001″ width=”599″ height=”336″ ] Synopsis: Tim, a high school teacher who is feeling his age, and and his wife, Lee, a yoga teacher and young mother, decide to hide away in a house in the woods and take a vacation from life. Their duplex, their lack of … [Read More]
[springboard type=”video” id=”1553679″ player=”tmbg001″ width=”599″ height=”336″ ] Synopsis: A comedy about Allie and Harper and their needlessly difficult journey to the beach. Bridey Elliott and Clare McNulty are relatively new to the scene, but their work as a comedy duo feels well practiced. They have a Joan Rivers … [Read More]
[springboard type=”video” id=”1553657″ player=”tmbg001″ width=”599″ height=”336″ ] Synopsis: A grieving man meets his lover’s family, who were not aware of their son’s sexual orientation. Xavier Dolan adapted a play for his sixth feature film. I’m guessing the reason why is to lighten his load of work. Though Dolan’s Tom … [Read More]
Genre: Drama Directed By: James Ponsoldt Starring: Jason Segel, Jesse Eisenberg, Anna Chlumsky, Joan Cusack, Mickey Summer, Mamie Gummer, Ron Livingston Written By: Donald Margulies Official Synopsis: THE END OF THE TOUR tells the story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter (and novelist) David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) and … [Read More]
[springboard type=”video” id=”1542283″ player=”tmbg001″ width=”599″ height=”336″ ] Woody Allen is back with his fiftieth film (yes, TV films count), Irrational Man. It is opening in the UK, September 11th, 2015. Irrational Man is about a philosophy professor, Abe Lucas (Joaquin Phoenix), suffering from despair, teaching at a small … [Read More]
The trailer for Hotel Transylvania 2 leaves me optimistic about this kiddie flick’s ability to teach some actual lessons to parents and children alike. Am I going to say something overly serious after watching a two-minute trailer for a kid’s movie filled with goofy monsters including a vampire voiced … [Read More]
Synopsis: Catherine (Elisabeth Moss) has entered a particularly dark period in her life: her father, a famous artist whose affairs she managed, has recently died, and on the heels of his death she’s dumped by her boyfriend James (Kentucker Audley). Looking to recuperate, Catherine heads out to her best friend … [Read More]
[springboard type=”video” id=”1534029″ player=”tmbg001″ width=”599″ height=”336″ ] Spike Lee reimagines Bill Gunn’s Ganja & Hess–a Blaxploitation film from 1973. When Dr. Hess Green (Stephen Tyrone Williams) is introduced to a mysteriously cursed artifact by an art curator, Lafayette Hightower (Elvis Nolasco), he is uncontrollably drawn into a newfound thirst for … [Read More]
[springboard type=”video” id=”1533543″ player=”tmbg001″ width=”599″ height=”336″ ] Swedish director Roy Andersson takes up the theme of “being a human being” with this meticulously crafted, dreamlike black comedy. Sam and Jonathan, a pair of hapless novelty salesman, take us on a kaleidoscopic tour of the human condition in reality and … [Read More]