Two films take place in Richard Linklater’s newest movie Everybody Wants Some!!. One I love in all its sun soaked, musically dowsed entirety, the other had my eyes rolling into the back of my head as I grew increasingly irate by…
Mark Wahlberg deals with disaster in first trailer for Deepwater Horizon
Based on the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Hollywood is cashing in once again on disaster and the effect by the trailer alone is, surprisingly, stirring. Peter Berg isn’t known for doing much in the way of…
First official trailer for ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’ reveals fantastical new world
“There’s a new world coming. And it’s just around the bend.” And it’s a most peculiar world, indeed. In the first official trailer for Tim Burton’s upcoming feature film, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an adaptation of Ranson Riggs’…
Movie Review: Songs My Brothers Taught Me
“Your brother isn’t going to be around to protect you.” With non-actors leading the film, there’s always the chance for it to come off as amateurish. Instead, Songs My Brothers Taught Me strikes that delicate mix of quiet, world-weariness and…
Anna Axster “A Country Called Home” Interview
Anna Axster directed the Imogen Poots lead independent drama A Country Called Home. Seeped in melancholy with strong performances throughout, it’s a self-assured film for the director, this marking her first full length feature film. Take a look at some of the…
Movie Review: Zootopia
I didn’t quite know what to expect as I settled in for my screening of Disney’s Zootopia , directed by Byron Howard and Rich Moore, and that’s probably for the best because if I had known in advance how charming this little…
Movie Review: Only Yesterday
Officially released in Japan in 1991 and finally getting it’s re-release 25 years later, Only Yesterday is a quiet and contemplative master class on character study in film. Having directed my favorite film of 2014, the soul crushing and…