This past weekend actor Ewan McGregor made his directorial debut with his new film American Pastoral. As of the initial critical reception, this film isn’t doing as well as most films do on their opening weekend. In the past we’ve all…
TIFF Review: La La Land
For more TIFF 2016 coverage, go here. Time melts away while watching Damien Chazelle’s latest, La La Land about the nature of being an artist, dating a fellow performer and how dreams and expectations are hard won and that perspective too is…
Movie Review: The Nice Guys
From the moment the opening aerial shots of a darkness soaked Los Angeles hit the screen, it became apparent that The Nice Guys is a film that knows that its audience has seen a thousand buddy-cop movies before. This self-awareness feels…
Jon’s Movie Review: ‘The Big Short’
In The Big Short, writer/director Adam McKay creates a deliberately dizzying visual aesthetic to imitate the rhetoric involved in many of the banks’ business practices. He postulates that their vague language, confusing double dealings and overall disregard for ethics were the…
Out of the Past: “Drive” (2011)
He has no name. If you hire him, he will give you five minutes of his talent. What is his talent, you ask? He drives and he drives well. If you rob a bank or a pawn shop, he will…
Film News: Ryan Gosling to produce biopic on classic Hollywood musical great Busby Berkeley
Get your jazz hands ready because finally classic Hollywood musicals are getting the attention they deserve! It has recently become public knowledge that Ryan Gosling will be producing a Busby Berkeley biopic based off of Buzz: The Life and Art…