The bitingly brilliant Force Majeure is a dark comedy that shakes the bedrock of conventional family values, and the social fabric. Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund sets us up with an average family on vacation in the French Alps. Father, mother and two children are about to enjoy “quality time” with one another, their first chance in a long while,
John Wick is such a visceral and active film and its about vengeance fulfilled. It’s a good kick in the head! A date movie! I think the movies fun and you go on a ride, certainly a journey. He’s a mythical assassin, he falls in love, gets out of the dark world, and then she dies.
John Cusack broke out young in phenomenally successful John Hughes projects and has managed to sustain a successful career since, more than 30 years. He’s learned a lot of lessons about Hollywood. And that’s why he lives in Chicago. We spoke with Cusack during the Toronto International Film Festival about early fame and movie
A friendly discussion of life and death passes the time as the Allies storm the last Nazi defenses of the City of Lights. After watching Volker Schlöndorff’s (Oscar-winning German director of “The Tin Drum”) touching, scary and occasionally funny rendition of an imaginary meeting that decided the fate of Paris you may never watch “My
Spirits in restrooms, blood from the walls and a hand cranked camera add up to something, but we are not sure what. Film archivist David (Rupert Evans) smells a rat. Maybe it is that his wife Alice (Hannah Hoekstra) seems distracted by her business associate Alex (Carl Shaaban) and seems to be pulling away from
Enter the real life world of spy craft and believe the truth is stranger than fiction Almost a year and a half after filmmaker Laura Poitras’ and journalist Glenn Greenwald first met with whistleblower Edward Snowden his name has become a household word. Snowden contacted Poitras and asked her to be a part of that
Down and dirty revenge flick with a cast of guns that rivals the actors Directors David Leitch and Chad Stahelski team up with screenwriter Derek Kolstad to produce a roller coaster of mayhem starring Keanu Reeves as semi-retired hit man John Wick. Trying to do the right thing, Wick is traumatized into bloody action when
Comic books are the hot s**t of television right now, let’s face it. From the walker infested wasteland of AMC’s “The Walking Dead” to The CW’s les enfants terrible duo of “Arrow” and “The Flash” starring DC’s “Justice League” buddies, television is taking on a world held in such high regard to fans of the
Tonight’s “Below Deck” finale on BravoTV was predictable and almost boring. Let me break it down to one paragraph. Crew spends season f**king up, f**king each other, disrespecting guests, providing poor service and generally hating each other. In the final episode, everybody makes fake apologies, they pull off one almost-perfect charter, hearts get broken, and
So this entire episode of “Real Housewives of New Jersey” was a lead up to Joe and Teresa’s sentencing. Not that we didn’t all watch it live a couple of weeks ago, but let’s face it, anything having to do with Juicy and Tre is more interesting that what’s going on with everyone else in