Brad Pitt

While there may have been more powerful films about the sport of racing, there haven’t been many that were as complete a package as F1: THE MOVIE proves to be.

"Bullet Train" is an action-comedy that takes a talented cast and capable director and turns it into an obnoxious mess that earns every trainwreck pun it gets.

Overall, "The Lost City" is remarkably fun and enjoyable; and stars Channing Tatum and Sandra Bullock are all in, even if the overall result is less so.

Default swaps, synthetic CDO, and subprime loans are not the first things that come to mind when watching a star-studded Hollywood drama. In fact, unless one happens to be a Wall Street stock advisor, these terms sound like nothing more than a superfluous runaround to ensure that the men in charge stay in charge – at least, that’s how narrator Jared Vennett (Ryan Gosling) sells it. As the eyes, ea...[Read More]

Fury is a film about an American tanker unit during the last stretch of WWII in 1945. The Allies are well into Germany at this point and only the real fanatics, primarily the SS units, are the major problem. However, being fanatics the fighting is particularly intense as it is the phase of the war where the German soldiers are protecting the fatherland itself. Fierce resistance is an understatemen...[Read More]

On first encountering the 1853 memoir of Solomon Northup, a free black man drugged and kidnapped from an educated, domestic life by opportunistic slave-traders in Washington D.C., director Steve McQueen felt he had read the “[American version of the Anne Frank story]” – two historical people fated to represent institutionalized evils through very personal words and experiences. Northup, as embodie...[Read More]