The year is 2028 and Los Angeles is under siege by rioters protesting the actions of Clearwater, a mega-corporation that now controls the city’s water supply. In the middle of the riots, a pair of brothers, Sherman and Lev (Sterling K. Brown and Brian Tyree Henry,) try to pull offContinue Reading
I had absolutely no idea what to expect when I sat down to watch Blue Ruin. A friend, who’s taste in movies I trust implicitly, recommended it to me and that was all I needed. In writing this review, I worry about robbing my readers of the experience of watching thisContinue Reading
It’s the summer of 1984 and Davey Armstrong (Graham Verchere) is a fan of conspiracy theories. The walls of his bedroom are plastered with articles about UFOs, Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, and alien abductions. When a serial killer begins hunting down young boys in his small town, he suspectsContinue Reading
Bradley Thomas (Vince Vaughn) is a former boxer who’s just been fired from his job at a repair garage. On the same day he’s fired, he discovers his wife, Lauren (Dexter‘s Jennifer Carpenter), has been cheating on him. After destroying her car with his bare hands in a violent rage,Continue Reading
American Made tells the story of Barry Seal (Tom Cruise), a TWA pilot who is recruited by the CIA to fly reconnaissance missions over Communist strongholds in Central America. He does such a good job and has such a good reputation that a Colombian drug cartel recruits him to fly drugsContinue Reading
Bernie Lootz (William H. Macy) is the unluckiest man in Las Vegas. His luck is so bad that casino owner Shelly Kaplow (Alec Baldwin) employs him as a “cooler,” someone who’s mere presence makes winning tables go cold. Bernie has been working off a large gambling debt to Shelly byContinue Reading
Action star Jean Claude Van Damme has been called many things, but “actor” is most likely not one of the first words to pop into anyone’s head at the mention of his name. After a screening of JCVD, that line of thinking might (and probably should) change. JCVD casts the “Muscles fromContinue Reading