A grim tale about some of humanity’s worst, albeit more subtle, traits. Great acting all around but does this story really need to be told? Based off a true story, two brothers are Olympic medal winners in wrestling, but now they are older the youngest brother wants to start out on his own, feeling neglected in his…
Review: Birdman (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
A film loved by critics and one can see why, but Birdman also had my attention immediately. Unique and darkly humorous, Michael Keaton at his very best. Riggan Thomson is a washed out, down on his luck actor who once had Hollywood fame as the superhero Birdman. Hoping to reignite his life’s significance he writes, directs…
Review: Big Hero 6 (2D)
Big Hero 6‘s poster boy, the robotic Baymax, is the sole reason you need to see this film! Young tech prodigy Hiro Hamada and his brother build robots, one of which is called Baymax, designed to be the best in the field of medical care. But disaster hits the city of San Fransokyo when a…
Banter: The Hobbit and the Battle for Tradition
So The Hobbit trilogy has ended, Peter Jackson has finally ended his Middle-Earth adventure, but unlike the first Lord of the Rings trilogy this one has ended… badly. I loved the Lord of the Rings trilogy. A series of monstrous films made from acclaimed “unfilmable” tomes from JRR Tolkien, directed by a man who had…
Review: A Serious Man
There’s nothing quite like watching a Coen Brothers’ film. A straight-laced, kind hearted father and husband working as a mathematician finds his life suddenly collapsing around him after a series of troubles. Without a sense of determination, faith or self, he begins to seek meaning from the madness. On paper, and in synopsis, A Serious…
Review: Her
It is great to see Joaquin Phoenix back, and it is even better to see him deliver one of his best performances in a very honest, clever love story. Unable to commit to signing his devoice papers, a writer seeks companionship after breaking up with his wife through a new computer system with advanced artificial…
Review: The Imitation Game
A compelling piece of history and a story worth telling, Cumberbatch is excellent but I felt the experience was let down by a very “convenient” screenplay. Based off the book “Alan Turing: The Enigma” based off the true story of the mathematician who broke the infamous Nazi cypher machine known as The Enigma Machine in World War…
Review: Under the Skin
What a haunting and ambiguous experience this was! A mysterious woman drives throughout Scotland seemingly for the sole reason to abduct men. If there’s one thing you should know, I will happily watch anything if Scarlett Johansson is in it, and I will probably be biased towards it too (see Iron Man 2) but despite…
Review: Nightcrawler
Nightcrawler is one of those films that does so much with so little; a meticulous escalation of one character’s desires coupled with a rich subtext of media’s rotten underbelly. Louis Bloom is a nobody. He has no friends, no close family and zero empathy for others. His shallow attempts to give his life meaning begin by…
Review: Interstellar (2D)
Interstellar‘s beauty is skin deep: at its best it is inspiring and gorgeous to look at; at its worst it can be cliched and paradoxically lacking in explanation. Planet Earth is dying. The land is turning into a dustbowl and little to no life or vegetation can survive the dust storms that ravage the surface….