Posts Tagged ‘Amy Ryan’
Film Review – Wolfs
The oddly titled Wolfs (2024) – shouldn’t it be “Wolves?” – is about as laid back as you can get when it comes to a crime comedy. There are a lot of shady characters getting into all kinds of hijinks, but it’s all done with an even keeled,…
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Episode 138 – Beau is Afraid
For this week’s podcast, we discuss our favorite “mind-freak” movies and we review Ari Aster‘s latest freakout, Beau is Afraid. We also discuss the 1997 Spanish psycho-drama, Open Your Eyes. Download the episode here.
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Film Review – Worth
Worth (2021) asks an impossible question: How much is a human life worth? This isn’t just a philosophical debate. Director Sara Colangelo examines the challenge of assigning a monetary value to a person. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the government established the September…
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Film Review – Monster Trucks
Here is yet another opportunity for us to discuss how movies that barely register a reaction are usually the hardest to review. Monster Trucks (2016) is such a forgettable experience that it’s a struggle for me to write a full-length article on it. I’m clearly…
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Film Review – Central Intelligence
Comedy trailers are often lambasted for giving away all of a movie’s best jokes in a two minute highlight reel, usually accompanied by a happening James Brown or George Thorogood song. Central Intelligence, a new action comedy starring Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart (a no-brainer…
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Film Review – Bridge of Spies
During a year full of some of the best big-budget spectacle movies that has come along in while, Steven Spielberg decides to deliver one of the year’s more subdued, big-budget dramas. Set against the Cold War of the early 60s, Bridge of Spies tells the…
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Film Review – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Fame, desperation, the need for strangers to admire you, the search for artistic truth, commerce versus art, the ability for an actor to completely commit to their craft and yet wreak havoc with their personal life, aging, magical realism, being stuck in one’s own head,…
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Film Review – Escape Plan
We realize Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger teaming up in a movie would cause excitement…if this were twenty years ago. Once upon a time, these two were at the top of the action hero food chain. Now, they have been regulated to smaller projects, each…
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