The disaster movie GeoStorm is more than unrealistic, as the genre ‘disaster movie’ already suggests. The movie contributes to a gendered, specifically “male” narrative of controlling the weather and the climate. While taming hurricanes, destroying thunderclouds, and adjusting global and regional temperatures cannot be said to represent a male fantasy … [Read More]
Reaction: Netflix sent out a notice that there’s a new trailer for Bright, the movie directed by Suicide Squad director David Ayers and stars Suicide Squad Star Will Smith and almost Suicide Squad star Joel Edgerton. The trailer is pretty interesting and has a nice tone. I’m a bit thrown off … [Read More]
Faces Places co-directed by the prolific and legendary filmmaker Agnès Varda, and the unknown street photographer known as JR, is my favorite film of the 20 or so I’ve seen at the New York Film Festival so far. It’s hard to believe there will be one that will top it. She … [Read More]
Annabelle: Creation Annabelle: Creation caught me completely off guard. The previous Annabelle film felt a bit lackluster in terms of how scary it was. However, this next chapter took it up a notch. Video Review: THE GOOD: I have to start off by giving a lot of props to director … [Read More]
It trailer: Epic. I’m just going to leave this here… About IT: New Line Cinema’s horror thriller IT, directed by Andrés Muschietti (Mama), is based on the hugely popular Stephen King novel of the same name, which has been terrifying readers for decades. When children begin to disappear in the town … [Read More]
Christopher Nolan “Dunkirk,” Christopher Nolan’s nail-biting World War II epic thriller about the heroic evacuation of 300,000 plus British soldiers from invading enemy forces in May 1940 lives up to its hype. The film, which officially opens Friday, is both an artistic and pop culture achievement. It has already received … [Read More]
Genre: Documentary Director: Vanessa Gould Length: 95 minutes Actors: Bruce Weber, William McDonald, Margalit Fox, Paul Vilella, Douglas Martin, Jeff Roth Cinematographer: Ben Wolf Original score: Joel Goodman Reviewer: Connie Wilson Once, 30 people helped maintain the basement archives of 10,000 drawers in the basement of the New York Times … [Read More]
What is a director to do after helming a highly anticipated Marvel Cinematic follow up? Go into hiding? No, he finds another project and uses the momentum from the Marvel exposure to gain exposure for the follow up! Director Taika Waititi isn’t wasting time with all the press that’s coming … [Read More]
Geoff Johns is an anomaly in the DC pantheon. He’s a creative force that not only excels at storytelling but he also has done exceptionally well with creative direction and course correcting troubled DC Comics initiatives and characters. He’s been known to “fix” a lot of what wasn’t working for … [Read More]
[springboard type=”video” id=”1595907″ player=”tmbg001″ width=”599″ height=”336″ ] Four men set out in the Wild West to rescue a group of captives from cannibalistic cave dwellers. Bone Tomahawk released on December 10th of last year, and yet I didn’t catch it until a week ago after a friend nagged me to … [Read More]
It’s that time of year again! We’re just days away from the New York Comic Con! The convention is descending on the city of New York and the excitement is starting to set in for all of us attending. I’ve been attending this convention since its inception and as a native … [Read More]
[springboard type=”video” id=”1510391″ player=”tmbg001″ width=”599″ height=”336″ ] From Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and New Line Cinema comes the comedy HOT PURSUIT, starring Academy Award winner Reese Witherspoon (“Walk the Line,” “Wild”) and Sofia Vergara (“Chef,” TV’s “Modern Family”), under the direction of Anne Fletcher (“The Proposal”). In HOT PURSUIT, an … [Read More]