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Review: Midnight Special
Midnight Special It has slowly become a special event to me now when a new Jeff Nichols film comes out. Many of you may not have heard of him, but he is the writer/director films such as Shotgun...
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Quick Reviews – The Invitation, Cop Car, Green Room
The Invitation I am not going to talk about the plot of this one because it is very much a paranoid mystery that relies on your interpretation of everything happening on screen. This is a very well...
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Review: Batman v Superman – Ultimate Edition
Batman v Superman – Ultimate Edition I am supposedly one of the few that enjoyed the theatrical version of Batman v Superman: Dawn of the Justice when it was initially released. While I admit that it...
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Review: Jason Bourne
Jason Bourne It’s been nine years since we’ve seen Jason Bourne on screen, and I have to say that I’m glad he’s back. Along with Matt Damon’s return, comes the return of director Paul Greengrass who...
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Review: Hell or High Water
Hell or High Water It seems like only recently that I wrote my review for Midnight Special that I thought it was going to be a very tough movie to beat this year. It hit all the right notes for me –...
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Review: Sausage Party
Sausage Party Having been a fan of nearly everything Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg have collaborated on over the past few years, namely This is the End and AMC’s Preacher, I was very excited to see...
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Old School Review: Thief
Thief This film is the first in what I like to think of as Michael Man’s crime trilogy. Thief, Heat, and Miami Vice. Very similar themes strewn throughout each film – cops and robbers, character...
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Review: The Purge – Election Year
The Purge: Election Year I’ve been a fan of the Purge series for the most part. The first entry was a fairly solid home invasion horror film with a tense first hour and a typically great performance...
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Review: The Accountant
The Accountant On paper, this movie may seem much stranger than it actually is. A man with autism becomes a forensic accountant who moonlights as an assassin. That feels like a pretty lame description...
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Review: Doctor Strange
Doctor Strange I have to give Marvel credit for this film because they really took what is arguably the least accessible character (maybe even more than Ant-Man?) and gave him a very accessible movie....
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Review: Hacksaw Ridge
Hacksaw Ridge A decade after the intense Apocalypto, Mel Gibson returns to directing with a little-known World War II story that focuses on courage and saving lives instead of taking them. Private...
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Review: Arrival
Arrival The greatest science fiction movies don’t tell a story about aliens from another planet, but a story about who we are. Director Denis Villeneuve, of the fantastic Prisoners and last year’s...
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Review: Rogue One – A Star Wars Story
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Rogue One is the first installment to the Star Wars series that isn’t part of the original storyline, it isn’t really even a spin-off of sorts. It’s a strange beast that...
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Review: Manchester by the Sea
Manchester by the Sea Director Kenneth Lonergan is the king of slice-of-life films. His debut film, You Can Count on Me, was a great little film focusing on a relationship between two siblings during...
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Review: La La Land
La La Land Just when you think you’ve seen all of the great films at the end of the year, something like La La Land comes out of nowhere to take you by surprise. In a year where my favorite film thus...
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Kyal’s Top 10 of 2016: 10-6
Kyal’s Top Films of 2016: 10-6 10: Manchester by the Sea The year of 2016 was a very strange one. It was a very slow year up until about November, where they crammed in six of my 10 favorite films of...
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Kyal’s Top 10 of 2016: 5-1
Kyal’s Top Films of 2016: 5-1 5: Arrival Director Denis Villeneuve has one amazing streak going. With his amazing Incendies to Prisoners to Enemy and Sicario. This guy loves one-word titled films....
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Review: John Wick Chapter 2
John Wick: Chapter 2 In 2014, Keanu Reeves’ comeback movie, John Wick, came as a complete surprise. This was the moment when American action started to catch up with what Chinese and South Korean...
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Review: Logan
Logan Logan is a real breath of fresh air in the current stream of comic book movies. It is one of the rare cases where you forget you are watching a movie about superheroes. This description I have...
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Review: Kong – Skull Island
Kong: Skull Island Following 2005’s King Kong remake that ran over three hours long and as actually the second remake of the 1933 original, the studio decided to give us something fresh and new. I, for...
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