Michael Sarnoski’s Pig stuck with me long after the credits rolled. It’s a movie best viewed without any preconceptions. All I knew going in was that Nicolas Cage stars as a truffle forager who uses a pig to find the savory fungi in the Oregon wilderness. When the pig isContinue Reading
When PhD candidate Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) finds that a 9-kilometer-wide comet’s trajectory puts it squarely on a collision course with Earth, her mentor, Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) checks her work. He confirms the news and immediately informs NASA. But almost immediately, a political shell game begins. A long-delayedContinue Reading
Charles Dickens’ classic tale of redemption, “A Christmas Carol,” has been told and retold countless times as a movie. Dating back nearly to the beginning of the medium itself, the story of Ebenezer Scrooge has been adapted and reinvented in almost every way possible. With actors as varied as GeorgeContinue Reading
As a reviewer, it is sometimes difficult to convey what makes a film worth watching without ruining the film for potential viewers. This is especially true when a movie reveals itself as something I didn’t expect it to be. Something more enjoyable or unpredictable or just completely unexpected. 2021’s Nobody,Continue Reading
When his friend is severely injured in a car accident, Dr. Ernst Sovac (Boris Karloff) takes matters into his own hands. Brain matter, that is. Dr. Sovac transplants a piece of a gangster’s brain into the skull of Professor Kingsley (Stanley Ridges.) By doing so, he not only hopes toContinue Reading
Rupert Pupkin (Robert De Niro) desperately wants to be a stand-up comedian. He’s never performed for an audience, however. He prefers to hone his act in his mother’s basement. After an encounter with talk show host Jerry Langford (Jerry Lewis,) Rupert becomes increasingly delusional about his chances of breaking intoContinue Reading
Audrey (Tammy Blanchard) is a down-on-her-luck single mom. After her grandfather dies, she and her daughter, Cheyenne (Onata Aprile), decide to move into his old farmhouse. She can’t pay the rent on her current house and is likely to inherit Grandpa’s place anyway. The reading of the will isn’t forContinue Reading