The first 2/3 of this movie are so booooooooring! The final act picks up the stakes and there’s actually finally something happening but by that time my investment in the characters and the story had already left. A fine performance by Nicole Kidman but in a movie so boring it gets lost. Recommend? I wouldn’t…
A movie that tries to be too smart for it’s own good. Overly dark and overly acted, there are so many unnecessary characters and plot lines that by the end you know there’s no way to wrap anything up logically so, we’ll just go with the illogical and some cool effects. Recommend? Don’t even waste…
I was surprised by how much I liked this movie. It looked somewhat uninteresting from the trailers but Robert Downey Jr. put in a really good performance and Robert Duvall once again shows just how much skill he can bring to any role. The acting raises a pretty standard script to a higher level but…
There’s something you need to know about “Joe” before going in: Nicolas Cage is really good in this movie. Maybe not what you’d expect from his recent performances but in “Joe” he tones down his usual overacting tendencies and gives a great reserved and understated performance as the mentor to an increasingly better Tye Sheridan.…
“Killing a priest on a Sunday. That’ll be a good one.” This is the logline to John Michael McDonagh’s latest film “Calvary” and it’s outstanding. An examination of faith and guilt, set in a small Irish town and excellently cast. A confession is started and as the priest and his parishioner converse it’s very quickly…
Nightcrawler is a film about obsession. There are a lot of themes and explored but the foremost is obsession and Jake Gyllenhaal plays his character to almost perfection as Lou Bloom strives for success and the American dream. We first meet Lou as a lonely outcast, a hustler looking for any opportunity to scratch together a…
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