The early years of the career of Bob Dylan are recreated in A Complete Unknown. In 1961, enigmatic folk singer Bob Dylan (Timothée Chalamet) travels to New York to visit his hero Woody Guthrie (Scoot McNairy), who’s hospitalized with a degenerative illness. It is at the hospital where Bob meets Peter Seeger (Edward Norton), who…
A new mother begins to believe she is turning into a dog in Nightbitch. Mother (Amy Adams) has grown resentful of the fact that she gave up her art career to raise her 2-year-old son on her own, while her Husband (Scoot McNairy). Mother begins recieving heighted senses akin to that of a dog. After…
The Dark Knight holds a vengeful vendetta against the Man of Steel in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Two years have past since the world was introduced to Superman (Henry Cavill). Despite being hailed as a savior by many, there are some concerned with the collateral damage he frequently leaves behind. One of those…
An experimental music group is lead by an eccentric man in a papier-mâché head in the indie comedy-drama Frank. Jon (Domhnall Gleeson) is a wannabe musician, who stumbles upon a band called “Soronprfbs,” who are trying to stop their keyboardist from drowning himself in the ocean. Needing an extra man for their performance that night,…
From director Steve McQueen (Shame) comes the historical drama 12 Years a Slave. Based on true events, the film tells the story of Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man living Saratoga Springs, New York in the 1840s. A skilled violin player, Northup is lured away by two men offering a touring gig in…
It is obvious from the opening credits that Killing Them Softly is more art film than crime film. Sure, the film focuses on a hitman named Jackie (Brad Pitt), who is called in to kill those responsible in a robbery. However, the film moves at quite a slow pace, which features much more talking than…
I’ve been hearing a lot of good things about Ben Affleck‘s third directorial effort Argo, so I thought I should make it a point to see the film while it was still in theatres. Argo is a true story about C.I.A. agent Tony Mendez (Affleck), who travels to Iran, undercover as a film producer, in…
I have been hearing a lot of comparisons between this film and Liam Neeson‘s surprise 2008 hit Taken. However, while they are both films that feature Neeson in a genre he is not usually known for, they are two different types of film. While the term is probably overused, the best description of Unknown would be…
Even though I missed the film when it came out a couple weeks ago, I finally managed to see Wall-E today. I would probably compare this film to The Incredibles in the fact that even though it is animated, it stands on its own as a sci-fi adventure in the same way The Incredibles stood…
