Antoine Fuqua and Denzel Washington have a pretty extensive relationship going at this point. The best of their collaborations is still ‘Training Day’, but a few years ago their movie ‘The Equalizer’ made quite a bit of a splash around the world. It was a middle...
Review by James Lindorf The multiple award-winning Damascus Cover was written and directed by Daniel Zelik Berk, an Israeli filmmaker, along with his co-writer Samantha Newton. The pair came together to tell the story of Ari Ben-Zion, an undercover agent for Israel’s...
Review by David Ferguson Greetings again from the darkness. Those of us in the United States have always loved a rags-to-riches success story … it’s the personification of the American Dream. The only thing we seem to enjoy more is tearing down the pedestals that we...
Review by Lauryn Angel Unfriended: Dark Web is exactly what it appears to be from the trailers: a horror movie in which all of the protagonists meet a grisly end. In fact, most of the story is pretty obvious from the trailer. A young man takes a laptop that has been...
Review by James Lindorf It was announced earlier this year that Gravitas Ventures had acquired the distribution rights to Broken Star. This psychological thriller is the first film from Kandoo’s new slate of six to eight low budget films, aimed at developing...
Review by Jacquelin Hipes Shooting a film in low light and tossing a couple of nude scenes in does not automatically transform it into noir. Jess Bond’s writing and directing debut relies on all the ingredients of its predecessors without really understanding their...
Greetings again from the darkness. Scottish director Lynne Ramsay doesn’t shy away from tough material. In fact, she seems to thrive on it. Following the emotional turmoil of WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN (2011) she delivers her latest, which can best be described as...
Greetings again from the darkness. It’s referred to (sometimes affectionately, sometimes not) as Wes World. Many directors have their own style, though few are as immediately recognizable as a film by Wes Anderson. THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, MOONRISE KINGDOM, FANTASTIC...
Greetings again from the darkness. Comedians taking the leap from TV to movies sometimes find the going a bit rough. Amy Schumer hit it big with critics and audiences in TRAINWRECK (2015), and then flopped with both groups in last year’s SNATCHED (2017). This time...
Review by Caitlin Zeigler Four short films show how humans and A.I. help or hurt humanity. The first short is called 'Seed' and it's about a man who has to end his life to help the planet thrive. 'In/Finite' is the next short about a woman who seemingly wants to ditch...