Reviews
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‘Dying of the Light’ Review: Nicolas Cage Almost Saves This Mess
‘Dying of the Light’ Review: Nicolas Cage Almost Saves This Mess Grindstone Entertainment Group With Taxi Driver, American Gigolo, The Last Temptation of Christ and more,…
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‘Murder of a Cat’ Review: Seems Felines Have Just the One Life After All
Gravitas Ventures Clinton Moisey (Fran Kranz) is something of a simpleton. He lives at home with his mother (Blythe Danner) where he operates a daily…
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‘Red Knot’ Review: Because It Is Brittle, and Because It Is My Heart
Thunder Perfect Mind Peter (Vincent Kartheiser) and Chloe (Olivia Thirlby) are newlyweds on something of an impromptu honeymoon after boarding a research vessel in Argentina en…
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‘Pioneer’ and ‘Poker Night’ Both Start With ‘P’ and Open This Friday, But Are They Thrillers Worth…
‘Pioneer’ and ‘Poker Night’ Both Start With ‘P’ and Open This Friday, But Are They Thrillers Worth Seeing? Magnolia Pictures Two new thrillers hit VOD and…
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‘Penguins of Madagascar’ Review: Turns Out These Birds Can Fly On Their Own
20th Century Fox Whether in TV or movies, spin-offs are risky, never more so than when the figures being spun off are wacky supporting characters who…
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‘Horrible Bosses 2’ Review: Funny, Foul and Just Familiar Enough
Warner Bros. By their very nature movie sequels are designed to offer audiences more of the same with the logic being that if something worked…
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‘The Frame’ Review: A Sci-Fi Miracle Among the Chaos of Indie Filmmaking
Double Edge Films Like Christopher Nolan on a budget, writer/director Jamin Winans (Ink) creates worlds where imagination and emotion trump logic and traditional cohesion. That’s not…
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Review: ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part I’ Shouldn’t Have Been a Part I
Lionsgate The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part I opens with Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) buried deep in District 13. After breaking the Hunger Games arena…
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A Werewolf and a Somnambulist Walk Onto VOD With ‘Late Phases’ and ‘The Sleepwalker’
Dark Sky Films Another week, another handful of new films searching for a way into our eyeballs via VOD and/or a limited theatrical release. Big movies…