Reviews

An assured debut from Chloe Dumont filmed in Serbia is an edgy, erotic thriller set in a cutthroat financial realm replete with gender politics and avarice to boot. Her Fair Play is more taut than may be expected in part due to the ardor evinced by Phoebe Dynevor (known for being in the ensemble of […]

Expend4bles is a film that is based on action films pulled together without the adhesive of a story line to pull them together.  It’s a lot of noise with no meaning. The thin plot revolves in the group getting together again, in this car to prevent the discharge of a nuclear bomb.  It moves around […]

Ben Mezrich’s book ‘The Antisocial Network’ is brought to the big screen with some amusing flair but less dramatic flourish and energy by Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl).  Using plenty of graphics to help convey the complexities in a seismic financial shift without an anti-capitalist screed.  Dumb Money referring to chump retail backers […]

This union of cultural assimilation and horror may offer more obfuscation than genuine frights from a high school setting.  Though moments at a school locker and a swing set can be a bit unnerving. Suri’s not really that bad as a good-natured teen who’s too late to notice that she’s involved in more peril than […]

British filmmaker Kenneth Branagh is back for his third incarnation of Agatha Christi that is more impressive in its mood and settings than in its narrative convolutions of potboiler and ghost story. A Haunting in Venice has Branagh’s retired Belgian sleuth Here Poirot in the titular Italian city circa 1947 in a contest to his […]