Michael Alago didn’t look like much back in the glory days of late 70s/early 80s New York squalor and filth, when blue-jeaned punks bumped shoulders with headbangers, druggies, and drop-outs. A skinny…
Movie Review: Killing Ground
What’s an Australian horror film about backpackers getting savagely murdered by insane hunters to do to free themselves of the long shadow of Greg McLean’s 2005 film Wolf Creek ? Up the gore? Possibly…
NYAFF Movie Review: The Taking of Tiger Mountain
Tsui Hark’s The Taking of Tiger Mountain is ostensibly a retelling of an actual conflict during the twentieth century Chinese Civil War where a band of 30 Communist soldiers in the People’s Liberation…
Movie Review: Despicable Me 3
I never thought I’d complain about a Despicable Me movie having too much plot. Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda’s latest entry in Universal Pictures’ unexpected franchise juggernaut feels less like a sing…
Movie Review: Moscow Never Sleeps
Johnny O’Reilly’s Moscow Never Sleeps aspires to more than just being an ensemble drama. It seeks to encapsulate the very spirit of that great Russian city, all its wonder, all its corruption, all its…
Movie Review: Camera Obscura
Before you ask, yes, Aaron B. Koontz’s Camera Obscura has distinct similarities to the forty-sixth episode of The Twilight Zone, “A Most Unusual Camera.” Both follow characters who stumble upon myster…
Movie Review: Future ’38
I’ve seen a number of movies I felt would’ve worked better as short films instead of as feature length ones. Usually it’s because there’s too little story, too little creativity, or too few original i…