Reviews

The Way Back is a dark film following a way back for Jack Cunningham played effectively by Ben Affleck from a time in which he relies on liquor to survive from day to day.  For Cunningham Booz is like a vaccination which holds off his depression which is caused partly from the loss of a […]

This version of The Invisible Man, is less about the Invisible man and far more about an indestructible woman named Cecilia Kass played effectively by Elizabeth Moss.   Other renderings of the H. G. Wells science fiction book such as Claude Rains in 1933 with Gloria Stuart as his girlfriend revolve around the individual who we […]

Director Chris Sanders’  CGI/live action film is adapted from Jack London’s 1903 classic novel of the same name.   It takes place in the 1890s and focuses on Buck, a large CGI St Bernard.  Buck lives with a Judge and his family and he’s a spoiled, well loved dog.  As the film opens Buck is destroying an outdoor party […]

A new sweeping war movie from Sam Mendes (who explored the genre in Jarhead) blends creativity and focus even if its technique might feel a tad gimmicky.  1917 stars Dean-Charles Chapman (Game of Thrones) and George MacKay (Captain Fantastic) and uses that continuous shot (like Birdman) to follow its characters on an intense mission on a […]