Hoping the pounding 60’s soundtrack will jar the audience into enjoyment, this yarn evaporates into TV fluff. Guy Ritchie’s foray into the “James Bond” genre teeters on the edge of an unholy marriage of TV’s “Mission Impossible” and “Route 66” with leads of unidentifiable nationalities and two-dimensional haute couture. The confusion is not helped by
Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara bring the laughs in the road comedy Hot Pursuit. Despite the familiar plot and several clichés, the film manages to keep you laughing thanks to the great chemistry of the two talented actresses. Directed by Anne Fletcher (The Proposal and The Guilt Trip) from a screenplay by David Feeney and
Although its pace is a bit slow at times, The Gunman benefits from stylized filming and great action sequences. The film’s plot is a tad familiar, but Sean Penn’s performance makes it worth taking the time to watch. Based Jean-Patrick Manchette’s novel The Prone Gunman, the film was directed by Pierre Morel (Taken and District
Beyond the Mask is a Revolutionary War action thriller spanning England and the New World in the years leading up to the 1776 signing of the American Declaration of Independence. Through the politics of rebellion, classism, racism and religion, it paints a picture of the struggles that beset the British making inroads into the eastern
Woman in Gold delivers a powerful punch to the world’s conscience about the events surrounding Gustav Klimt’s famous painting “Adele Bloch-Bauer I” (1907). Stolen by the Nazis from Maria Altmann’s childhood home at such a turbulent time in history, the painting graced the halls of an Austrian museum until Altmann (Helen Mirren) and her lawyer,
In this latest mash-up, the wonderful world of Disney combines its fairy tale villains, heroes, princesses and their children for a fun tale filled with more than a few musical dance numbers for good measure. The film starts with the audience being introduced to Beast (Dan Payne) and Belle (Keegan Conner Tracy) who have married
Booboo Stewart is best known as Seth Clearwater in the Twilight Saga and he’s also one of Hollywood’s hardest working young actors. At twenty one he’s worked on 56 films and television shows. He’s a martial artist with two World Championships and a place in the Junior Blackbelt Hall of Fame, he’s a model, singer,
In this list we count down a selection of what we consider to be the ten best superhero movies released to date. The superhero genre over the past 15 years has exploded, with superhero movies regularly dominating yearly highest-grossing film lists. Our appetite for stories of superheroes has never been greater. Caped crusaders, web-slingers, egotistical
A good performance by Charlize Theron is all that saves this movie from the poverty porn dustbin. Charlize Theron plays Libby Day, a woman approaching middle age with a terrible secret. Twenty five years earlier her family was murdered in the night. As one of only two survivors of the killings, Libby was able to
Philosophy steps out of the classroom and into murder. This year’s Woody Allen film is a murder mystery. Actually, it is not much of a mystery since we know all about the murder. The only mystery left is to see if the killer gets away with it or not. Sort of a “Columbo” episode without