Tag: movie reviews
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Review: A new classic is born in pulsating ‘Hateful Eight’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save “The Hateful Eight” is not for the faint at heart. What Quentin Tarantino movie is? While cinema’s favorite cinephile is up to some of his old tricks in his eighth feature, this over three-hour-long drawing…
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Movie review: Great cast can’t save ‘Sisters’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Starring Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Ike Barinholtz, Dianne Wiest, James Brolin, Maya Rudolph, John Leguizamo; directed by Jason Moore; 118 minutes; R for crude sexual content and language throughout, and for drug use. A lot…
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Movie review: ‘Big Short’ will make you laugh, make you furious
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Starring Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell, Christian Bale, Brad Pitt, Marisa Tomei; directed by Adam McKay; 170 minutes; rated R for pervasive language and some sexuality/nudity; opens Wednesday In adapting the 2010 financial crisis book “The…
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New Movies in Theaters
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Opening “Diwale” – (Not rated, 158 minutes) Not reviewed. Plot information unavailable. Limited release Indian film in Hindi with English subtitles. (Tinseltown) Specialty “TCM Presents Miracle on 34th Street” – (PG, 120 minutes) The original…
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Larson, Tremblay illuminate the darkness of ‘Room’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Starring Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Sean Bridgers, Joan Allen, William H. Macy; directed by Lenny Abrahamson; 118 minutes; R for language. Arresting and heartbreaking, wrought with extremes of tension and love, “Room” is as evocative…
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‘Suffragette’ brings to life the fight for rights
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Starring Carey Mulligan, Natalie Press, Helena Bonham Carter, Ben Whishaw, Meryl Streep; directed by Sarah Gavron; 106 minutes; PG-13 for violence, profanity, adult themes. Is Carey Mulligan single-handedly reliving the story of the women’s movement…
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Bradley Cooper’s ‘Burnt’ seems a little half-baked
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Starring Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Daniel Brühl, Emma Thompson, Omar Sy; directed by John Wells; 100 minutes; R for language throughout. If “Burnt,” starring Bradley Cooper, feels slightly familiar, you might be remembering Cooper’s short-lived…
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Cynical ‘Our Brand Is Crisis’ is good fit for Bullock
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Sandra Bullock-starring “Our Brand Is Crisis” is an acidic, biting political satire that asserts the notion that marketing has taken over the democratic process. There’s truth in that thesis, especially since the film is…
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Bill Murray deserves better in ‘Rock the Kasbah’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Starring Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Scott Caan, Zooey Deschanel, Leem Lubany; Kate Hudson; directed by Barry Levinson; 100 minutes; R for language including sexual references, some drug use and brief violence. “Safe as milk.” That’s…
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‘Sicario’ is addictive
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Starring Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, Josh Brolin, Victor Garber; directed by Denis Villeneuve; 120 minutes; R for grave bodily harm, threatened and enacted. The billion-dollar drug trade along the U.S.-Mexico border is so bloody…