Movie Review: Bright

Like the majority of screenwriter Max Landis’ work, Bright has a heavenly elevator pitch. A gritty David Ayer directed Los Angles police drama inundated with enough orcs, elves, and magic to make J.R.R Tolkien consider summering in Inglewood. What a…

Movie Review: ‘Victor Frankenstein’

Do you prefer your Franken-shteened or shtined? I’m more a “shteener” than a “shtiner,” but Paul McGuigan’s confused Victor Frankenstein is neither Mel Brooks parody nor classic gothic horror. The film shifts between tones without satisfying either connotation of these…

TIFF Report #9 (Mr. Right, Taxi, Beasts Of No Nation)

All you need for a movie is a girl and a gun. D.W. Griffith apparently uttered that phrase during the earlier stages of cinema’s development, and years later, the formula is as prominent as ever. Max Landis, the writer of…

Jon’s Movie Review: ‘American Ultra’

There are films made to enlighten and leave you with a heightened state of mind. Then there are films meant to be watched with an already “heightened” state of mind. American Ultra caters much more to one than the other.…