Director: Jonathan Levine Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick, Anjelica Huston, Bryce Dallas Howard Writer Will Reiser bases 50/50 on his own experience dealing with spinal cancer in his twenties. A great cast, helmed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Reiser’s outstanding script work to create a touching but funny perspective on handling the cards you … Continue reading 50/50 (2011)
Director: Jamie Travis Starring: Ari Graynor, Lauren Miller, Justin Long Lauren Miller writes for and stars in For A Good Time, Call…, a film that initially comes off as another dime-a-dozen chick flick in which two polar opposites are forced to make do with one another. Despite this first impression, For A Good Time is not … Continue reading For A Good Time, Call… (2012)
Director: Dan Gilroy Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Bill Paxton, Riz Ahmed I’m not too familiar with a lot of Jake Gyllenhaal’s work, but apparently I’m missing out. In Dan Gilroy’s directorial debut, Nightcrawler, Gyllenhaal channels an unsettling charisma as Louis Bloom, a terrifying man who takes up the work of filming crime to sell to … Continue reading Nightcrawler (2014)
Director: F. Gary Gray Starring: O'Shea Jackson, Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Neil Brown, Jr., Aldis Hodge, and Paul Giamatti For those of us living in relatively peaceful areas in 2015, it may be hard to imagine what life is like for people who live in crime-ridden neighborhoods. F. Gary Gray’s biographical drama, Straight Out Of Compton, … Continue reading Straight Outta Compton (2015)
Director: Joe Johnston Starring: Chris Evans, Hayley Atwell, Hugo Weaving, Sebastian Stan, Tommy Lee Jones, Stanley Tucci If I remember correctly, the first time I tried watching Captain America: The First Avenger, I gave into my sleep deprivation and dozed off about 30 minutes in. What I saw of the film apparently wasn’t a great impression, as … Continue reading Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
Director: Aleksander Bach Starring: Rupert Friend, Hannah Ware, Zachary Quinto, and Ciarán Hinds Action movie directors often seem to forget something very important in their films: the plot. Hitman: Agent 47 is a prime example of this problem. As the directorial debut of Aleksander Bach, Hitman sets the bar low for the director’s future in the … Continue reading Hitman: Agent 47 (2015)
There are some movies that keep you guessing on the edge of your seat. And then, there’s The Maze Runner, directed by Wes Ball, which makes you feel like you should be on the edge of your seat but you’re not completely certain because you’re still trying to figure out what the plot is. The … Continue reading The Maze Runner (2014)
Last year, I watched Douglas McGrath’s Emma (1996) and was steadily bored to tears. I don’t know why I would’ve expected better from I Don’t Know How She Does It; although I’ll say that this film saw me as more annoyed than bored. Starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Pierce Brosnan, and Greg Kinnear, I Don’t Know … Continue reading I Don’t Know How She Does It (2011)
Former Saturday Night Live stars Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig co-star with Luke Wilson in The Skeleton Twins. The family drama is directed by Craig Johnson, who also co-writes with Mark Heyman. With spot-on direction, a solid script, and a fantastic cast, The Skeleton Twins enforces the traditional conceptions about the importance of family ties … Continue reading The Skeleton Twins (2014)
Kenton Hall’s A Dozen Summers follows twelve-year-old twins Daisy and Maisie McCormack as they embark on their day-to-day adventures. Although Hall is the director, writer, and producer for the film, A Dozen Summers seems as though it truly belongs to the McCormack sisters, played by Hero and Scarlet Hall. I think we all want to … Continue reading A Dozen Summers (2015)
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