“I don’t really know what I like,” blankly states the protagonist of Beach Rats more than once during the course of the film. Much like her previous effort, It Felt Like Love, Eliza Hittman’s second feature is about the road…
Movie Review: Goon: Last of the Enforcers
Well, it’s no secret that the powers that be have completely scraped the bottom of the barrel when it comes to original ideas. Now, they are banking on nostalgia with a seemingly endless batch of unnecessary sequels and reboots, giving…
Movie Review: Shot Caller
Director Ric Roman Waugh (Snitch, Felon) seems hellbent on making a career out of crime dramas that are every bit as generic as their titles would suggest. His entire cinematic ideology appears to be constructed around the idea that the…
Movie Review: Armed Response
On the day that I watched an excellent Polish documentary feature film from director Maciej Adamek titled Dwa Swiata (Two Worlds), I also had to endure a vastly lesser movie called Armed Response. The first movie I highly recommend you…
Movie Review: The Only Living Boy in New York
While he displayed flashes of inspired creativity with a slew of music videos and the clever, genre-bending (500) Days of Summer, it seems as though director Marc Webb’s inventive spark was only a fluke. After two less than spectacular Spider-Man…
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power Movie Review
Poor Al Gore. He’s like a sad superhero who keeps trying to spread his wisdom to the world but is shoved to the side like an old man who yells at clouds. Ten years after his controversial documentary, An Inconvenient…
Movie Review: Kidnap
Few performers have had quite the harsh post-Oscar win drop-off that has become as synonymous with Halle Berry as any of her performances. Since taking home the gold, Berry hasn’t exactly taken on roles that showcase her talents. Unfortunately, her…