Peter Segal’s My Spy doesn’t gain any points for narrative originality. With a plot rehashed from a film that would’ve been a star vehicle for Arnold Schwarzenegger in the late 80’s or early 90’s, in this day and age, that … Continue reading Review: ‘My Spy’
Patrick Vollrath’s hijacking thriller 7500 starts out on a promising note. Through static security camera footage, we observe the process of a group of men as they prepare to board a plane, readying their homemade supplies and maneuvering through the … Continue reading Review: ‘7500’
Andrew Patterson’s The Vast of Night begins inside a bit of a gimmick. Slowly maneuvering towards a television set located in the center of an impeccably decorated 50’s style living room, the film about to unfurl before us is introduced as … Continue reading Review: ‘The Vast of Night’
There’s a pivotal scene in Coky Giedroyc’s How To Build A Girl that asks the viewer to suspend disbelief when 16-year-old music critic Dolly Wilde sits down for her first real interview with a thriving British pop singer. She breathlessly … Continue reading Review: ‘How To Build A Girl’
As The Shining showed us almost 40 years ago, nothing good ever comes from a deteriorating mind in an isolated, snow-bound place. In Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz’s new horror film The Lodge, substituting for Jack Nicholson’s crumbling facade into … Continue reading Review: ‘The Lodge,’ Long on Atmosphere, Short on Everything Else
15. Peterloo (Mike Leigh) Imagining Mike Leigh tackle a historical act of massacre seems like an oblique fit for his intensely talky and introspective human nature dramas. I’m so glad he made this film, and yes, it does fit nicely … Continue reading My Favorite Films of 2019
