mother!, 2017. Directed by Darren Aronofsky Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer, Domhnall Gleeson, Brian Gleeson, Kristen Wiig SYNOPSIS: A wife and husband must deal with the introduction of two strangers into their seemingly normal life. mother! is certainly deserving of its exclamation point, and could have several more as well as […]
Movie Review – The Vault (2017)
The Vault, 2017. Directed by Dan Bush. Starring James Franco, Taryn Manning, Francesca Eastwood, Scott Haze, Q’orianka Kilcher, and Clifton Collins Jr. SYNOPSIS: Two sisters must rob a bank in order to save their brother but the bank has its own dark secrets. The line that separates horror from comedy is a thin one, with the […]
Movie Review – Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
Spider-Man: Homecoming, 2017. Directed by Jon Watts. Starring Tom Holland, Robert Downey Jr., Michael Keaton, Marisa Tomei, Jon Favreau, Michael Keaton, Zendaya, Donald Glover, Jacob Batalon, Laura Harrier, Tony Revolori, Bokeem Woodbine, Tyne Daly, Michael Barbieri, Abraham Attah, Hannibal Buress, Kenneth Choi, Angourie Rice, Michael Chernus, Michael Mando, Logan Marshall-Green, Jennifer Connelly, Gwyneth Paltrow, and […]
Movie Review – Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
Transformers: The Last Knight, 2017. Directed by Michael Bay. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Anthony Hopkins, Josh Duhamel, Laura Haddock, Isabela Moner, Peter Cullen, Ken Watanabe, John Goodman, Tony Hale, and John Turturro. SYNOPSIS: Humans and Transformers are at war, Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the […]
Movie Review – Get Out (2017)
Get Out, 2017. Directed by Jordan Peele Starring Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Catherine Keener, Bradley Whitford, Betty Gabriel, Marcus Henderson, Stephen Root, and Lil Rel Howery. SYNOPSIS: An African-American man visits his white girlfriend’s parents at their odd, country complex where no one is what they seem. I can quite honestly state that I have […]
Movie Review – Split (2016)
Split, 2016. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Starring James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Haley Lu Richardson, Kim Director, Jessica Sula, Brad William Henke, Sebastian Arcelus and Betty Buckley. SYNOPSIS: Three girls must escape their captor, a man with 24 different personalities some of whom are intent on keeping the girls captive and others who are trying […]
Movie Review – A Monster Calls (2016)
A Monster Calls, 2016. Directed by J.A Bayona. Starring Lewis MacDougall, Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones, Toby Kebbell and Liam Neeson. SYNOPSIS: A boy seeks the help of a Tree monster to help his mother with her terminal illness. A Monster Calls is a truly tragic coming of age story, a 12-year-old boy Conor (Lewis MacDougall) dealing […]
Movie Review – Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them (2016)
Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, 2016. Directed by David Yates. Starring Eddie Redmayne, Colin Farrell, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Carmen Ejogo, Ezra Miller, Ron Perlman, Jon Voight, Ronan Raftery, Faith Wood-Blagrove, Jenn Murray, Zoe Kravitz and Johnny Depp. SYNOPSIS: In 1926 New York the visiting Magizoologist Newt Scamander must recapture his […]
5 Actors for Young Dumbledore in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Matt Spencer-Skeen suggests five actors for the role of young Dumbledore in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them… With Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them out next week news and rumours have been ratcheting up around the sequel, with Johnny Depp rumoured to be playing Gellert Grindelwald and David Yates confirming Dumbledore’s return […]
Movie Review – Inferno (2016)
Inferno, 2016. Directed by Ron Howard. Starring Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Omar Sy, Irrfan Khan, Ben Foster, and Ana Ularu. SYNOPSIS: Robert Langdon must regain his memory and his problem solving skills in order to save the world’s population from a deadly new plague. Full disclosure: I read the book Inferno when it first came […]
