AltWeeklies Wire
Why Is Kim Jong-un So Afraid of Seth Rogen?new
Sony assumed North Korea would hate the movie. The question was: What would it do?
L.A. Weekly |
Amy Nicholson |
12-15-2014 |
Movies
Tags: Kim Jong-Un
Reece Witherspoon Stumbles — Cheryl Strayed, and So Did This Movie
“Wild” is an unsatisfying self-help drama that exposes the limitations of Reece Witherspoon’s range.
Hungry for a decent movienew
“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay-Part I” perpetuates the questionable tactic of carving a popular fantasy novel into multiple movies when only one is needed. “Harry Potter’s” final installment was given two films to wrap things up, and “The Hobbit” is being retold in a ridiculously prolonged trilogy that mercifully concludes next month.
Worcester Magazine |
Jim Keogh |
11-26-2014 |
Reviews
What Becomes an Enigma Most? Benedict Cumberbatch Transforms Into Alan Turing
Genius mathematician Alan Turning is revealed as the father of the modern computer, an unsung British hero of World War II, and as a lonely victim of Britain’s Draconian punishment of gays, in this well-rounded biopic about the man who broke the Nazi’s cryptographic machine — the “Enigma.”
Neo-Western: Tommy Lee Jones Breaks Some Eggs
Of the handful of directors ready, willing, and able to make a Western that’s worth a damn, Tommy Lee Jones runs neck and neck with Clint Eastwood.
Citizenfour: Traitor or Patriot?new
Reexamining our balance of power.
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
11-12-2014 |
Movies
Tags: Citizenfour
Shooting for the starsnew
David Cronenburg on Maps to the Stars, Hollywood filmmaking and, uh, incest
VUE Weekly |
Josef Braun |
11-10-2014 |
Profiles & Interviews
Not Quite All: Redmayne Wows as Hawking, But Biopic Falls Flat
While possessing an outstanding performance by Eddie Redmayne in the role of the great theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, “The Theory of Everything” is formulaic to a fault.
Vampire Culture: Jake Gyllenhaal Goes Dark
Social satire doesn’t get much blacker than it does in “Nightcrawler.”
Dark Alliancenew
Lionel Rolfe recounts the 1990s when Gary Webb's stories on the CIA and their flooding the streets of Los Angeles with crack cocaine to finance death squads in Nicaragua.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
10-24-2014 |
Movies
The Snowden: Effect Edward Snowden — During and After
Laura Poitras’s fascinating documentary, about the process and aftermath of whistleblower Edward Snowden’s earth-shattering revelations, is an essential historical filmic document.
'The Boxtrolls': Big Themes in Small Boxesnew
"The Boxtrolls" is one of those movies for kids that actually deals with real issues.
Jackson Free Press |
Amber Helsel |
10-20-2014 |
Movies
Tags: Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable
Idaho Horror Film Festival 2014new
People love a good a scare, and the Idaho Horror Film Festival is giving Boiseans what they crave with three days of classic, contemporary, feature-length and short horror films--plus a whole lot more.
Boise Weekly |
Amy Atkins |
10-16-2014 |
Movies
Canned Heat: A World War II Tank Story
Writer/director David Ayer’s World War II drama is a gritty European-styled coming-of-age picture that reminds us how much the nature of war has changed in the past 65 years, and yet how much it remains the same.
An Incomplete Investigation: Gary Webb’s Story Gets Short Shrift
Investigative journalism isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. It never was.
Tags: KILL THE MESSENGER, Michael Cuesta
