2016 Tribeca Film Festival: A Hologram for the King

Tom Hanks has become such a universal actor that you just can expect him to play any role and know that you’ll be entertained– even if one of those roles calls for him to pop a giant cyst growing on…

Movie Review: ‘A Hologram for the King’

The new oddity by Tom Tykwer, A Hologram For The King, is a complete disaster. It meanders. It dodges. It’s so incoherent thematically, tonally and formally that in some instances it feels like Rock The Kasbah meets Inherent Vice. Or maybe…

Oscar Buzz: The Nominees for the 85th Academy Awards Are Here!

Compared to the last few years, the road to this year’s Oscars has moved rather quickly. At least to me, it has. But the fun hasn’t really started yet. This morning, Oscar host Seth MacFarlene (Family Guy, Ted) and Emma…

Oscar Buzz: We Predict the Nominees

Hollywood is aflutter with anticipation (and in some cases anxiety) over the impending nominations for the 85th Academy Awards. At 5:30 tomorrow morning, the ubiquitous Gangster Squad star Emma Stone and irreverent Oscar host Seth MacFarlane will reveal who’s still…

Maxwell’s Movie Review: Cloud Atlas

Some movies are like real life – painfully realistic, often cynical or sad, these seek to portray a truth about the world we live in. Many of these are marvelous films – the best among them including Mike Leigh’s Another…

11 Mind-Blowing Movies

Over the past few weeks I’ve been watching the Cloud Atlas trailer nonstop. Sometimes, almost literally on a loop. I’m torn between wanting the film to come out right now and wanting it to never be released, because anything less…