King of Thieves Movie Review: A middle-of-the-road heist flick

From the seminal (The Italian Job) to the near unwatchable (Going in Style), Michael Caine is no stranger to heist movies. For that matter, neither are Jim Broadbent, Tom Courtenay, Ray Winstone, or Paul Whitehouse, which appears to be the…

Movie Review: Going in Style

Zach Braff’s directorial career follows an interesting trajectory. With Garden State, his once-beloved-and-now-overly-criticized directorial debut, Braff made an outstanding welcoming card, one that captured the bizarre, awkward confusion, senselessness and aimlessness of one’s 20s with poetic grace, a sensitive soul…

Children of Men: 10 Year Anniversary

Children of Men is the dystopic study of societal collapse, revolts, terrorism, class structure and urban decay with its only through-line being the chaos stringing them together. However, the emergence of a pregnant young woman, in a future where the…

Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, and Alan Arkin are Going In Style

What is it about bank heist films that attract us so much? Is it seeing a group of people planning and choreographing the perfect robbery? The crazy characters? Or is it the camaraderie and group skills these people have? Whatever…

Movie Review: Now You See Me 2 | The magic is gone

At a certain point you need to accept that the Now You See Me franchise—and it most certainly has been engineered as such—is about superheroes, not magicians. Like with the first film, Jon M. Chu’s Now You See Me 2…

Jon’s Movie Review: ‘Youth’

Youth is gorgeously shot, beautifully framed, but erratically storied. In many ways, it is the perfect imitation of the characteristics of youth, but unfortunately only a few of them are positive. Just like youth itself, the film is hard-headed and thinks it already…

‘Now You See Me 2’ teaser trailer is released

Looks like Daniel Radcliffe is going back to the magical world…but this time without a wand.  Lionsgate released this week the first official teaser trailer for Now You See Me 2 the sequel to 2013’s film. The film, directed by…