The Space Between Us is the new movie from director Peter Chelsom and starring Asa Butterfield, Carla Gugino, Britt Robertson and Gary Oldman based on a screenplay by writer/producer Allan Loeb. Now Loeb is the same guy who wrote Collateral Beauty as well as Miley Cyrus’s straight-to-DVD So Undercover, Tom Cruise’s Rock of Ages and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, all derivative works that don’t work and unfortunately, The Space Between Us is more of the same.Read More »The Space Between Us movie review
We have now been blessed with another sequel to the 2002 horror movie The Ring, this one called, originally enough, Rings. Directed by Javier Gutierrez and starring Matilda Lutz, Alex Roe, Johnny Galecki and Vincent D’Onofrio, this supernatural horror fest lacks anything resembling originality and really just goes through the paces set by the original film.Read More »Rings movie review
This is the first balls-to-the-wall comedy review I’ve done and I think I need to be clear that with other movies, you know, the ones that actually take themselves kind of seriously, I try to pay a lot of attention to intricacies like plot, pacing, direction, cinematography and framing, acting quality and whether the movie is thought provoking or insightful. In the case of a movie with the generic title Office Christmas Party, all that serious stuff sort of gets thrown out the window because as a comedy, its first, last and pretty much only priority is to get the audience laughing. Movies like this don’t have plots, they have a basic premise which serves only as a framework to create preposterous or insanely funny situations which, if done right, give us an excuse to forget political correctness, manners or discretion. Sure, there’s all kinds of deep analysis about cultural trends and social anxieties that can be made about what it is that allows us to burn off some stress and what we find humor in, but the bottom line for any comedy is not any of that, it’s did it make me laugh?Read More »Office Christmas Party movie review
Nocturnal Animals is directed by Tom Ford and stars Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Isla Fisher, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Michael Shannon.Read More »Nocturnal Animals movie review
When being interviewed for the film Hitchcock/Truffaut, director David Fincher said “If you think you can hide what your interests are, what your prurient interests are, what your noble interests are, what your fascinations are, if you think you can hide that in your work as a film director, you’re nuts.”Read More »Sully Movie Review (spoiler free)
