Synopsis: A couple who keeps their sick son in a secluded environment find their controlled lives challenged by a young girl who moves in next door. (c)Imdb [springboard type=”video” id=”1515087″ player=”tmbg001″ width=”599″ height=”336″ ] The title suggests you are in for a movie about crops and farming–wrong. Ok, … [Read More]
Director: Tim Johnson Actors: Jim Parsons, Rihanna, Steve Martin Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy Aww, Dreamwork, how we love you so … even, if you are the stepchild of animation. You always do good work. However, not great work like your brother and sister, Pixar and Disney. This brings me to … [Read More]
It Follows is “good” for all the boring reasons. It’s premise—a supernatural being haunting unlucky youngsters who contract it through dirty sex we never get to see—tickled critics into trumpeting it as an allegory for AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. But boy is that interpretation a downer. … [Read More]
Synopsis: When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and it is up to the Avengers to stop the villainous Ultron from enacting his terrible plans. [springboard type=”video” id=”1508463″ player=”tmbg001″ width=”599″ height=”336″ ] Avengers: Age of Ultron has been everywhere and now it’s … [Read More]
Maria Enders (Juliette Binoche) is an actress at the peak of her international career who is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years earlier. Back then she played the role of Sigrid, an alluring young woman who disarms and eventually drives … [Read More]
Simple synopsis: A look at a frightening condition that plagues thousands; sleep paralysis. Very few movies have stuck with me beyond the SXSW Film Festival like the documentary The Nightmare has. Though not for everyone, Room 237 director Rodney Ascher crafts an effectively unsettling and extremely creepy documentary … [Read More]
Synopsis: A real-life story of painter Margaret Keane and her world famous paintings that were credited to her husband. [springboard type=”video” id=”991919″ player=”tmbg001″ width=”599″ height=”336″ ] It seems like it’s been a long time since Tim Burton has made a movie that isn’t weird and that actually … [Read More]
Synopsis: A young programmer is selected to participate in a breakthrough experiment in artificial intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a breathtaking female A.I. [springboard type=”video” id=”1514277″ player=”tmbg001″ width=”599″ height=”336″ ] The concept of Artificial Intelligence has been done so many times in film. Whether it … [Read More]
[springboard type=”video” id=”1510665″ player=”tmbg001″ width=”599″ height=”336″ ] Synopsis: Four longtime friends set out on a journey throughout New York City attempting to regain control of their lives. Darren Grodsky and Danny Jacobs know what being friends is all about. Not only did they write and direct Growing … [Read More]
Director: Matthew Vaughn Writers: Jane Goldman and Matthew Vaughn Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy Starring: Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson, Mark Strong, Taron Egerton, and Michael Caine Matthew Vaughn has crossed the threshold and gained the prestigious title as one of my top 10 directors out right now. I’m a big … [Read More]
Synopsis: A woman takes a 1,100 mile hike down the PCT in order to deal with a personal issue. [springboard type=”video” id=”1510559″ player=”tmbg001″ width=”599″ height=”336″ ] Wild isn’t as wild as the title suggests. It’s rather more mundane. Based on a memoir by Cheryl Strayed, who experienced … [Read More]
[springboard type=”video” id=”1509949″ player=”tmbg001″ width=”599″ height=”336″ ] Noah Boaumbach’s comedy While We’re Young stars Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts as Josh and Cornelia, a childless New York married couple in their mid-forties. As their other friends all start having children, the couple gravitates toward a young hipster couple … [Read More]