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Before I Go to Sleep is too timid and tiring
Before I Go to Sleep had all the potential to be a good suspenseful thriller, but the potential was squandered. A suspense thriller without suspense is a waste; in this case, the title becomes a taunt, or a dare. This film was a directorial failure by Rowan Joffé, who could not set the tone appropriately, […]
Birdman: The Unexpected Virtue of Audaciousness
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) is a cinematographic playground. Beautifully captured by renowned cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki in what looks like a handful of extraordinary long shots. Those long shots it turns out were a combination of long shots and seamless editing. The effect is nothing short of magnificent, I was intentionally watching for […]
In The Forest Of The Night The Doctor finds his home
In the last episode before the two-part season finale and the confrontation with Missy that the entire season has been building toward, The Doctor lands in a very meaningful way. I’ll get this right off, because I am not going to write anything about the first part of the two part episode next week, I […]
Box Office Report: October 27
This weekend something interesting happened, and it was not just that Keanu Reeves (John Wick) has a hit movie, and it is not Ouija opening at the top. It is St. Vincent jumping from an obscure 15 to 6th in it’s third week. A big part of that is that it only opened in 4 […]
Daniel Radcliffe is enthralling in Horns
Horns is a magnificently dark story filled with performances that kept me transfixed. As the film progressed, the tone of the film grew more sinister to the point where Daniel Radcliffe was simply chilling. This is the first film director Alexandre Aja did not write himself, and might be his best feature film to date. […]
Flatline was anything but flat
Flatline was interesting, one of the marginalized or Doctorless episodes. Throughout most of the episode, The Doctor is trapped in the TARDIS, leaving Clara to do all the legwork. The plot imposed enough restrictions on what The Doctor could do that the outcome was genuinely in question at one point. The story itself is one […]
Box Office Report: October 20
Fury opened this weekend slightly under what was expected, falling $1.5 million short of the $25 million goal, I believe that falls into a close enough opening weekend. Gone Girl slipped to second in its third week, while The Book of Life opened just behind Gone Girl. The tedious The Best of Me pulled in […]
The Best of Me is a tedious romance trope
I am in no way shape or form the demographic for which this film is intended, so take what I say here with that weight. The core audience for this film will love it, and some may even love it while seeing it for what it is. The Best of Me is low romance fantasy. […]
Mummy on the Orient Express is having such a good time
Mummy on the Orient Express might as well have been written for Tom Baker’s Doctor, and performed by Colin Baker. It is best modern example, since the last one, of the classic glory days of the series, which have arguably come again. The argument for the new golden age of Doctor Who is actually quite […]
Box Office Report: October 14th
This week Gone Girl maintained it’s top box office spot, while Dracula Untold lurked in the shadows just behind. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day had a not bad opening weekend at $18.36 million, taking the number three spot. The Judge opened in 5th, only pulling in $13.1 million, which is […]
Interview with Addicted Screenwriter Christina Welsh
This weekend I had the opportunity to have a very pleasant conversation with screenwriter Christina Welsh. Her newest film, Addicted, opened this past weekend. Studio projections have the film opening at number 7 at the box office, which is an impressive number for a film opening on less than 1000 screens nationwide. We had a […]
Kill The Messenger was intriguing, complex, and a little dry.
Kill The Messenger was intriguing and compelling. Its basis in truth lends much to the story, grounding the film. It is apparent that while some events and characters may have been enhanced to improve the narrative for entertainment value, the extent of that exaggeration was reasonable and I did not feel the integrity of the […]
Dracula Untold lacks teeth
Dracula Untold was hit and miss at best, incoherent at worse. While there were entertaining parts, and a decent story the film was plagued with inconsistencies, careless makeup and effects, and substantial plot holes. Now given that, this is a Dracula movie, and what may be the initial entry in Universal’s Monsters franchise, it might […]
Box Office Report 10/7
Gone Girl slipped past Annabell, but only by about half a million, both knocked The Equalizer from the top spot. The Boxtrolls hung unto the number four spot while The Maze Runner slipped down to the fifth. Falling further down the list is the awkward comedy This is Where I Leave You. And still hanging […]
Kill The Moon has Capaldi showing off his Doctor Who roots
Kill The Moon was a perfect mid-season episode. The tonal shift was palpable, and there were some significant character revelations will resonate through the rest of the season. There is a lot of good, a lot of cheese, and a lot to discuss. This episode was surprising, full of easter eggs, and screams for a repeat viewing. Here […]
