Backcountry is a well-acted film with a familiar premis
Foxcatcher chronicles the tragic partnership of multi-m
Hell hath no fury like a fairy whose wings have been
On the heels of Stand Up Guys, it’s important to know where Pacino started. We need to be reminded that Jack and Jill was not the apex, but a manifestation of boredom, a break from playing Shylock or Dr. Jack Kevorkian, a (hopefully) momentary nadir in the filmography of a great American Actor. Stand Up Guys might […]
Given the cast, Broken City offers promise in an otherwise gloomy crop of January films. Russell Crowe is steady and convincing as the forceful, at-times corrupt New York City mayor Nick Hostetler, whose third term-election hinges on whether or not his citizens believe that he purchased Bolton Village to offer continuous low-income housing to its residents as […]
Tales of police corruption in cinema are a dime a dozen. Some are akin to Serpico. Others are like Brooklyn’s Finest. Then there’s The Guard, which resembles neither, but has been drastically overlooked in 2011. Don Cheadle and Brendan Gleeson star in this Irish comedy that follows unorthodox policeman Gerry Boyle (Gleeson) as he investigates a few […]
