October 6, 2019
Whistle while you work. Or cheat. Or steal. Or kill.
September 28, 2019
The gang’s all here…literally!
December 27, 2018
One of the best screenplays I have ever had the pleasure to see brought to life on the screen.
March 14, 2018
Every now and then a movie comes along that requires nothing more from an audience than a willingness to have fun. Not much substance, not much concentration necessary. Some might call this type of film “fluff” and say things like “check your brain at the door.” To this, I say, “So what?!?!”
January 7, 2018
Aaron Sorkin, Jessica Chastain and Idris Elba make a glorious threesome in “Molly’s Game,” a busy, but entertaining true story based upon the “real life is stranger than fiction” saga of Molly Bloom.
September 13, 2017
Craig Gillespie’s I, Tonya takes a ripped-from-the-headlines true story and infuses it with unexpected empathy. Invaluable assistance is provided from star Margot Robbie, whose performance here is even more star making than her showy breakout turn in Wolf of Wall Street. Her work, as well as that of co-stars Sebastian Stan and Allison Janney (not to mention director Gillespie and cinematographer Nicolas Karakatsanis) should garner plenty of attention come awards time.
April 30, 2016
A movie as salacious and lurid as the story it’s telling, “King Cobra” has its flaws, but is generally an effective, lean, and very mean piece of “ripped-from-the-headlines” cinema. Boasting a cast including James Franco, Molly Ringwald, Alicia Silverstone, Keegan Allen, a hasn’t-been-this-good-in-years Christian Slater, and former teenybopper Garrett Clayton, ejecting himself from tweendom straight into the tighty-whities of grown-up films, “King Cobra” offers a stylish though straightforward, yet not uncompelling, dramatization of this tawdry tale of murder and sex.
September 17, 2015
Johnny Depp is a shoo-in for an Oscar nomination in what is arguably the best performance of his career as James “Whitey” Bulger, a small-time Boston hood who grew to become one of the FBI’s most wanted. Scott Cooper’s riveting “Black Mass,” based on the book of the same name by Boston Globe journalists Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill, is a brutal and uncompromising piece, right in line with the life of its subject.
September 8, 2015
Do not be fooled into thinking this is a quality picture just because the names Jason Patric, Bruce Willis and John Cusack are in the credits. "The Prince" is one of the laziest, ugliest, not to mention dumbest movies I’ve seen in a long time.