In 2004, Michael Moore made Fahrenheit 9/11 to warm people not to re-elect George W. Bush. It did not work. Two presidents later he had to make the sequel, Fahrenheit 11/9 and I hope this does not need to become a trilogy. 30 years into his filmmaking career it’s safe to say Moore won’t reach
This Is Us is such a heartwarming, touching family saga, it’s confounding that the creator cannot bring the same qualities to feature film. Crazy Stupid Love was good and he delivered generic studio fare like The Guilt Trip and Last Vegas, but Danny Collins and Life Itself lack understanding of drama and human beings at
Stephen King’s Pet Sematary is getting a reboot in 2019, following the huge success of the film adaptation of his horror novel, It. The legendary author’s 1983 book Pet Sematary was first brought to our screens in a 1989 big-screen adaptation directed by Mary Lambert. Paramount announced they were moving forward with the remake back
In 2012, Ramaa Mosely made the movie The Brass Teapot, a fairy tale allegory about a magic teapot that gives a couple money whenever they hurt themselves. With Lost Child, Mosely has created another modern day myth, and it doesn’t hurt that she keeps casting my favorite actresses. Fern (Leven Rambin) comes home from the
Hellboy is finally returning to the big screen after a decade. The supernatural superhero character from the Dark Horse Comics book series created by Mike Mignola is a red-skinned demonic entity adopted and raised by Professor Trevor Bruttenholm (Broom), the founder and director of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense (BPRD). He grows up
It was a night like no other, a night of terror! Classic horror doesn’t get much better than George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, where zombies rise up and eat their way through a small town. The 50th anniversary after the release of George A. Romero ’s classic Night of the Living Dead is cause
Henry Cavill is set to hang up his cape as Superman for the DC Extended Universe, sources claim. The Man of Steel actor has been in the role since his first film for the DCEU dating back to 2013. Superman has been a life-changing role for Cavill, whose biggest previous work was a supporting role in The
The life of crime in movies is often portrayed as a family business (The Godfather) or a surrogate family (Goodfellas). White Boy Rick takes a unique perspective of a family that turns to crime to try to save their family. Ricky Wershe, Sr. (Matthew McConaughey) and his son Ricky Jr. (Richie Merritt) sell guns to
Paul Feig earned a place on my “Directors I Will Watch Anything They Make” list after Spy. Spy was such a masterpiece, I decided I was on board for anything he ever directs, not that A Simple Favor would have been a hard sell otherwise. Spy was not only the perfect spoof of my beloved
Godzilla: King of the Monsters is the sequel to Godzilla, the 2014 reboot of the original 1998 film. The tepid response to the 1998 original, a re-imagining of the Japanese Toho Godzilla franchise, forced the production company TriStar to shelve plans for a trilogy. However, the 2014 reboot was much better received, raking in more