15 Years On and the Influence of ’28 Days Later’ Still Shows

For a genre about reanimating the dead, zombies were staying underground for the most part from the late 80’s through the whole 90’s. Day of the Dead (1985) had been the last high profile release for the longest time with only the…

Movie Review: Trespass Against Us

Adam Smith’s Trespass Against Us is the Parenthood of crime movies. It’s a story about how to raise a family in a unit so unstable that one false move could tear it apart. This certainly isn’t unfamiliar territory, but when…

Jon’s Movie Review: ‘In the Heart of the Sea’

It is undeniable that In the Heart of the Sea  is all blubber with no elegance or charm. The great period pieces Ron Howard produces, like last year’s Rush, thrive on the authenticity every moving part in it establishes. The…

First Full-Length Trailer for ‘Suffragette’ Debuts

The first trailer for the Carey Mulligan-led Suffragette is here and immediately has catapulted itself into one of my most anticipated films of the year. With an enormously talented cast that consists of not only Mulligan but Meryl Streep, Helena Bonham Carter,…

Ally’s Movie Review: Song of the Sea

Song of the Sea directed by Tomm Moore (The Secret of Kells) is unlike most of its contemporieis. With the closest comparison being his own prior work as well as Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away, his film brim full of wonder and…

Movie News: First Trailer Debuts for Ron Howard’s ‘In the Heart of the Sea’

Ron Howard and Chris Hemsworth have teamed up again after their turn in 2013’s underrated Rush, and it looks like it could either be a cinematic spectacle, or something that misses the mark. The first trailer for In the Heart of the…

Ally’s Movie Review: Calvary

The virtuous, the evil and the damned, the faithful and bedridden, the devout and the defiled; all are represented, all are given their moments in the sun in this extraordinary look at life and forgiveness and all that falls in…