Posts Tagged ‘Warner Bros. Pictures’
Film Review – Magic Mike XXL
I had a pretty crappy day yesterday. (The day before I wrote this, not the day before you are reading it.) I had the pms, ate too much dark chocolate, and then had to take something for my hormone and caffeine induced anxiety spiral. I…
READ MOREFilm Review – Mad Max: Fury Road
When it comes to hyperbolic storytelling, action movies are about as pure filmmaking as you can get. With the release of Mad Max in 1979, the bar for action films was placed at an unprecedented level due to a raw, unbridled approach to practical stunts.…
READ MOREFilm Review – The Water Diviner
It’s interesting how wars have both over represented and under represented periods on film. Vietnam has quite a few movies portraying it now. The Civil War has it’s fair share. Even the current war in the middle east is racking up a sizeable amount of…
READ MOREAn Appreciation – Heat
Michael Mann’s Heat (1995) is the culmination of a career long obsession for its creator. For as long as Mann has been a filmmaker, he’s constantly returned to the same subject: the intricacies and nuances of characters operating on both sides of the law. Cops…
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 – Focus
I’ve always wondered about master criminals: if they’re so smart and meticulous – studying their jobs to the finest detail and executing with pinpoint precision – why are they criminals to begin with? If these people are so talented at what they do, couldn’t they…
READ MOREFilm Review – Jupiter Ascending
Jupiter Ascending (2015) is a spectacular mess. It’s big and ambitious, but also ridiculous and damn near incomprehensible. There’s no denying that Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski (who wrote and directed) have a unique vision as a duo, but their latest has them spiraling out of…
READ MOREFilm Review – American Sniper
Chris Kyle was a real life figure who was credited as being the deadliest sniper in American history. He happened to have a real gift for doing one of the worst and most psyche destroying jobs there is: shooting people with deadly accuracy. Yet he…
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