Review – Midnight Special

Director Jeff Nichols channels classic Spielberg in this thrilling otherworldly mystery.

Review – Zootopia

Zootopia, according to advertising, is the best film from Disney Animation in 20 years.  Sure the studio stumbled for a while starting in the mid 90’s, but that claim puts this punny animal drama ahead of some stellar films.  Pocahontas, The Emperor’s New Groove, and Mulan, for example fall into that time period.  That’s not

Review – Deadpool

Buckle up boys and girls, this ain’t no #@&$%! Disney film.

Review – Mustang

Just announced as an Oscar nominee for best foreign language film, Mustang hails from France and tells the arresting tale of five sisters in a small Turkish village.

Review – Anomalisa

Anomalisa is a masterpiece.  Like any art or poetry that is given that label, it might not be obvious to everyone exactly what makes it such, but it remains a fairly obvious truth.  That doesn’t necessarily make it good though.

Review – The Peanuts Movie

Hollywood doesn’t have the greatest track record when taking a nostalgic classic and giving it the modern day big screen treatment.  One of the most recent examples of this was last year’s Mr. Peabody and Sherman.  As endearing as the trailers for The Peanuts Movie have been, it was still with great trepidation that I

Review – The Martian

Matt Damon apparently has a problem with getting abandoned on far off planets.

Review – Sicario

Sicario.  A term used for a hit man in Mexico.  Also the name of one of the most brilliant films of 2015.

Review – Everest

Remind me to never, ever, try to climb the tallest peak on the planet.

Review – Trainwreck

Amy Schumer with Bill Hader directed by Judd Apatow.  That’s certainly enough to get any comedy fan’s attention.