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Film Review – Furious 7
The Fast & Furious series is one of those rare franchises that have actually improved the further it goes. Fourteen years have passed since the first, and only in the last few years has it really found its stride. A lot of that has to…
READ MORESXSW Film Review – Lamb
The success of Ross Partridge’s Lamb (2015) really depends on whether or not you can buy into its premise. If you can believe that a middle aged man and a pre-pubescent girl – who have never met before – can reasonably coexist, then there may…
READ MORESXSW Film Review – Ktown Cowboys
Based off the popular online series, Ktown Cowboys (2015) follows five friends as they navigate their lives in the Korea Town district of Los Angeles. I’m not familiar with the series, but director Daniel ‘DPD’ Park (who shares story credits with Jeff Hoffman and Danny…
READ MORESXSW Film Review – Nina Forever
One of the strengths of brothers Ben Blaine and Chris Blaine’s Nina Forever (2015) is how it can’t be classified within any particular genre. It has some gruesome and disturbing elements, but it’s not really a horror film. It has some moments of humor, but it’s…
READ MORESXSW Film Review – Made in Japan
Made in Japan is a musical documentary where the passion for the subject is clear but the craft behind it is less compelling. Tomi Fujiyama is a name probably not known to many of us, but she is one of the defining personalities when it…
READ MORESXSW Film Review – Get Hard
SXSW in the past few years has procured a few “mainstream,” non-indie films for their line-ups. This year was no exception with Spy, Trainwreck, and Get Hard premiering at the film fest. A sucker for the comedy of Kevin Hart and Will Ferrell separately, the…
READ MOREFilm Review – Home
DreamWorks’ animated adventure Home (2015) is the cinematic equivalent of cotton candy. It’s colorful and sugary sweet, but disappears almost immediately after consumption. There’s not much substance going on here, and whatever emotion it tries to reach toward remains on the surface at best. That’s not…
READ MOREFilm Review – Merchants of Doubt
There are at least two sides to every issue, right? We often assume a good news report should be balanced and present alternative viewpoints to give the viewer as much data as possible. When dealing with issues of opinion or ideas, presenting the other side…
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