Directors Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker (“The War Room”) have covered some strange stories but the one in Unlocking the Cage may be the strangest so far. Steven Wise is described as an animal rights lawyer. That is a significant understatement. He is not only fighting for increased rights for animals, he is making the legal case for
Iron Man 3 was a nice little diversion for filmmaker/screenwriter Shane Black but we’ve been denied his trademark buddy films like Lethal Weapon and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. It’s been over 10 years since Kiss Kiss came out and his fans have been starving for a story that reeks of empty liquor bottles, cigarette
One shouldn’t expect much from a video game turned into a movie, but even I was curious at how a coherent narrative could come out of an endless puzzle game that captured countless first-time tablet and smart phone users several years ago and has become a merchandising and licensing boom in sales. I had my
A new poster for the new Assassin’s Creed movie has just been released by 20th Century Fox. The poster shows Michael Fassbender as Callum Lynch standing on a church spire overlooking a city’s rooftops in 15th Century Spain. The movie is based on the Assassin’s Creed games by Ubisoft and takes place in the same
A terrifying new trailer has been released for the upcoming horror science fiction movie The Purge: Election Year. The movie is the third movie in the series after 2013’s The Purge and 2014’s The Purge: Anarchy. The new movie follows the same theme, set in a futuristic world where every year for 12 hours all crime
Jeremy Irons is great, as usual, but the rest of the cast seems to be just going through the motions in this story of the nerd underdog who makes good. Irons does a fantastic job playing Cambridge mathematics Fellow G.H. Hardy but it is not enough to save this morass of melodrama. Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar
Disney have just released their second official trailer for The BFG — giving a much bigger glimpse into the fantastical world of Giant Country. The movie, which is set to be released on July 1, stars Bridge of Spies actor Mark Rylance as the Big Friendly Giant and newcomer Ruby Barnhill as Sophie. The new Official
Jack O’Connell blasts out of screen as Kyle Budwell, a New York truck driver who has lost his life savings in a securities gamble. He sneaks into the TV studio where finance TV show host, talking head and investment clown Lee Gates (George Clooney) is starting his weekly song, dance and spiel. The film starts
Jacques Audiard’s winner of the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival is a masterful tale of survival as well as a harrowing cautionary note about the perseverance of the violence of war. The story centers on Dheepan (Antonythasan Jesuthasan), a Tamal Tiger child soldier grown into leader during the final days before the movement
Director Erez Laufer’s documentary is true to its title. The film tells Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s story through archival footage and descriptions by the man himself. It is a touching movie, a documentary of unusual force and intimacy. One cannot help but listen to the words in the context of his assassination by his