The off-kilter hit man. The three lines of plot to follow. The dark comedy. Kill Me Three Times is what happens when a gritty film noir tours Australia with Simon Pegg as its guide. Reminiscent of Blood Simple, director Kriv Stenders offers this ode of murder most ...
One of the year’s oddest Hollywood pairings pits Ryan Reynolds opposite Helen Mirren in Woman in Gold, the remarkable true story of a woman’s journey to rescue her heritage and obtain justice for her family’s mistreatment in the years leading up to World War II. ...
Dreamworks Animation’s next salvo in its ongoing battle against Pixar for animated feature supremacy is Home, a ridiculously mixed up little tale with all the charm of a cactus and warmth of an iceberg. Following the failure of last year’s Penguins of Madagascar, the ...
Suddenly, from the enveloping shroud of irrelevance busts Sean Penn onto the scene with what seems to be the latest path for any Hollywood leading man to rediscovered glory: an ass-whoopin’, guns-a-blazin’, globe-hoppin’ action flick a la Kevin Costner in 3 Days to Kill or ...
Turn up the schlock, man. The B-movie genre gets elevated with this bucktoothed bloodletting bonanza. Having just seen it, I am here to testify that Zombeavers, a film that is as cracked as its title, is one helluva “dam” time at the movies. Mixing biohazard material with nature-dwelling ...
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’s biggest accomplishment may be that it dispels the widely accepted notion that sequels rarely ever work. Though it lacks the same touch of surprise and magic that endeared the original to millions of unsuspecting fans, The Second Best ...
And you thought Jar Jar Binks was annoying. Neill Blomkamp, the director behind the Oscar-nominated District 9, continues to disappoint in his beloved Science Fiction genre. Having publicly acknowledged that he screwed Elysium up by filming an unpolished script, he moves ...
What’s the hallmark trait of a movie sequel that has nothing to offer? No, not semen sight gags, silly. Although there are plenty of those in Hot Tub Time Machine 2, we were going for acid trip. After all, what better way to kill off large chunks of vacant runtime than by ...
Mcfarland, USA shouldn’t work. Its stock story about a white coach in a small rural town who transforms a band of ethnic misfits into a well-oiled championship team is just too commonplace and smells like a prefabbed assembly line sports drama. But it’s not ...
Those Russians. So many contributions to the world: the space race; vodka; vowel-deprived surnames; hockey players; vodka; the AK-47; hot tennis players; communism; vodka. And let’s not forget to add filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev whose latest film, the dour Russian ...
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