A delightful film that’s not without its dark side, Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose follows a paranormal investigator looking into the case of a talking mongoose on the Isle of Man in the 1930’s. Simon Pegg in perhaps his best role to date gives Fodor a...
Landscape With Invisible Hand unwinds with a very unique atmosphere that at once combines social satire and science fiction. A noticeable Bradbury vibe exudes over the story. In the near future after first contact, the Earth is filled with floating cities housing the...
Only In Theaters The engrossing documentary Only in Theaters chronicles the Laemmle theater chain. This film encompasses over eighty years of movie theater ownership by a single family complimented by clips from classic films. If you’ve ever attended foreign or indie...
Perhaps one of the greatest honors a deceased writer can aspire to (if in fact the dead aspire to anything) is to have one of their books adapted for the stage. In the case of Agatha Christie, whose output includes the world’s longest running play, The Mousetrap, it...
Any movie revolving around a prank always works better when there’s a phone involved. Consider 1965’s I Saw What You Did, where a couple of bored teenage girls prank call people with pseudo-malicious intent only to have their victims hunt them down. Flash forward to...
The first test of an atomic bomb occurred at 5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945 in the New Mexico desert. It was code named Trinity. J. Robert Oppenheimer was the head of the multi-headed hydra of science research called the “Manhattan Project.” There were multiple locations...
I’m not one to rate films with multiple sequels per se. For instance, making lists of the best films from a particular title, like the best Rocky or Star Trek movies doesn’t provoke interest in my neck of the woods. I know what I like and as far as M:I goes, the ones...
Sydney Pollack would be remembered if he’d only acted in films, rather than both performing in, directing, and producing some of the best movies made over the last 50 years. Some of the films Pollack acted in include: Eyes Wide Shut, Michael Clayton (which he also...
Wes Anderson is a name director in an era when comic book heroes are box office hits along with the occasional indie shoegaze crossover hit. While Anderson doesn’t command the clout of a James Cameron or Christopher Nolan, he can dependably deliver quaint...
Non-stop bustle provides the new Indiana Jones film a swift kick in the knapsack. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny remains just as presumptuous as its elongated title. Dial of Destiny the longest film yet in the saga of the archeologist cum world-weary...