Donald Trump‘s rise during the 1970s and 1980s is dramatized in The Apprentice. In the 1970s, Donald Trump (Sebastian Stan) is a young real estate upstart working for his father Fred (Martin Donovan). After getting into an exclusive club, Trump catches the eye of cutthroat lawyer Ray Cohn (Jeremy Strong), who takes Trump under his…
The story of the rise and fall of the world’s first smartphone is told in BlackBerry. Mike Lazaridis (Jay Baruchel) and Douglas Fregin (Matt Johnson) are business partners in the upstart Waterloo, Ontario, technology company Research In Motion. The two make a pitch to Harvard-educated businessman Jim Balsillie (Glenn Howerton) of Sutherland-Schultz Ltd for their…
A CIA agent becomes involved with an organization intent on stopping time inverting weapons in Tenet. The Protagonist (John David Washington) is a CIA agent, who after surviving a botched undercover operation in Kyiv is recruited into a top-secret organization known only by the code name “Tenet.” The Protagonist learns of the existence of weapons…
A young man has an awkward reunion with his estranged father in Come to Daddy. Norval (Elijah Wood) travels to the middle of nowhere to reunite with his long-estranged father (Stephen McHattie), from whom he has received a letter asking for help. However, things quickly fall off the rails between Norval and his father, the…
Filmmaker Hal Hartley concludes his trilogy of films about the Grim family with Ned Rifle. Labelled a terrorist by the media, Fay Grim (Parker Posey) is sentenced to life in prison. Shortly afterwards, her son Ned Rifle (Liam Aiken), who has been living under witness protection with a reverend and his family, decides to search…
Playing as part of this month’s Rue Morgue CineMacabre screening series was this very campy and seductive horror film. During the day, Abby Russell (Paz de la Huerta) is one of the best nurses at All Saints Memorial Hospital. However, during the night, Abby goes on the prowl to seduce and kill adulterous men. Abby…
That haunted house film is probably one of the hardest subgenre of horror to do. How do you portray ghosts on film without it being cheesy? This film was a mixed bag for me. I found that I was very passive for most of the film, with scenes that were supposed to be scary getting…
