The bittersweet earnestness of the film, along with the connection eventually established between mother and son make French Exit a worthwhile endeavor.
Blumhouse, the leading brand in horror, recently took Halloween to that franchise’s highest performance and now returns to another genre classic with an upgrade engineered for today – Black Christmas. Hawthorne College is quieting down for the holidays. One by one, sorority girls on campus are being killed by an unknown stalker. But the killer is about to discover that this generation’s young wome...[Read More]
The new film Need for Speed is strictly for those with a need for speed. If you have a need for good story lines, or perhaps a need for believable drama, you will not find it in this film. However, if you are a fan of the Fast & Furious series fan that lives for fast, incredible race cars, and completely adore Aaron Paul (Jessie from Breaking Bad), then you may really dig this film. Tobey Mars...[Read More]
Romantic comedies aren’t for everyone, but I’ll admit that they are for me. There, I’ve said it. Even your garden-variety now-only-five-bucks-on-the-end cap-at-Target flicks born from a script that’s been recycled dozens of times call to me. There’s just something comfortable about the genre. You know what’s coming. There’s a love story. There’s a wr...[Read More]
As the remake becomes more and more popular these days, you begin to hear people wonder why they are made in the first place when the original was fine to begin with. This tends to be a more prevalent discussion when people aren’t watching John Carpenter’s The Thing or the Coen Brothers’ True Grit, both of which have become praiseworthy adaptations made from movies that were already considered sup...[Read More]