Bradley Cooper’s directorial debut is the third remake of “A Star Is Born.” He stars as the male lead in this film, while Lady Gaga makes her big screen debut as the leading lady. So, a guy that’s never made a movie is telling a story for the fourth time and he cast someone who has never been a lead in a film. What can go wrong? Not much actually. This is one of the best films of the year, will garner plenty of awards buzz and rightfully so.
Fred Rogers, or more commonly known as Mister Rogers is most well known for hosting a children’s educational program on PBS. Millions of children, including myself grew up watching “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” and watched him put on a sweater and change shoes as he entered his house. But who was the real Fred Rogers? That’s the question asked by director Morgan Neville who is best known for his Academy Award winning documentary “20 Feet from Stardom.” Neville dives into Rogers’ childhood, his ideas behind the television show and much more in “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”
The rebooted trilogy that included digitally enhanced actors portraying apes, most notably Andy Serkis who played the lead, Caesar, comes to its conclusion in “War for the Planet of the Apes.” A film directed by Matt Reeves and also starring Woody Harrelson, Steve Zahn and Amiah Miller.
With “War for the Planet of the Apes” only days away, I thought it would be fun to look back at how it all started. That film is “Planet of the Apes” made in 1968 by director Franklin J. Schaffner and based on the book written by Pierre Boulle.
After the events of “Captain America: Civil War,” Peter Parker must now travel back home to New York and adjust to real life as a teenaged super-hero using Tony Stark as a mentor in “Spider-Man: Homecoming.”
In 1999, Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez wrote and directed one of the most successful independent films of all time when they made the critically acclaimed “The Blair Witch Project.” Now, seventeen years later, director Adam Wingard helms a new generation’s “Blair Witch” story which doesn’t veer too much off the course of the original story and still falls to the main criticisms of the first film. Continue reading
“It Follows” is a low budget independent horror film that has gained a following over the past year after it has been making the festival rounds. I was finally able to catch a screening of it after it had been given a nation-wide release and while the film doesn’t quite live up to the hype it’s been receiving, it is certainly a new and different take on the horror genre but ultimately leaves the audience with more questions than answers and not enough scares along the way. Continue reading
A man (Josh Brolin) is held in confinement against his will for an unknown reason in Spike Lee’s adaptation of a Korean comic book and subsequent film. Suddenly, after 20 years, he is released and filled with vengeance as he tries to find the men who locked him away. To get to these people he uses the aid of a nurse (Elizabeth Olsen) and karate moves he learned from the television in his locked hotel room. Continue reading
Lance Clifton, an unpublished author and high school poetry teacher, walks into his home to find that his troubled teenage son, Kyle, has killed himself by erotic asphyxiation. To save embarrassment, Lance not only hangs his son in a closet, he also pens a suicide note. However, what Lance didn’t expect was that the entire high school would become inspired by the note. Continue reading
In writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson’s debut film, we meet a man named John (John C. Reilly) who is taken from the street into a diner by Sydney (Philip Baker Hall.) We learn that John is completely broke and can’t even pay for his mother’s funeral. Sydney offers to take him to Reno where he can show him how to turn his life around.
