Sundance Review: Yorgos Lanthimos’s ‘The Lobster’, Starring Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, and Léa Seydoux
Yorgos Lanthimos’s first English-language film, “The Lobster,” is a fascinating, thought-provoking, and original story that involves a world where the punishment for not being in a relationship is that you’re forced to be turned into an animal. An animal of…
Sundance Review: Matt Ross’s ‘Captain Fantastic’, Starring Viggo Mortensen and George MacKay
Matt Ross’s follow-up to his low-budget film, “28 Hotel Rooms,” “Captain Fantastic” is a delightful film that could have easily turned out badly. About a father who raises and trains his children outside society, it sounds really hard to execute…
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Review: Michael Rossato-Bennett’s ‘Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory’
The human body is a fragile one, no matter how much we like to believe otherwise. In an instant we can be ridden with disease, die, or have some other…
Review: ‘Lucy’, Starring Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman
Luc Besson, known mostly for writing action flicks like the French film District B13 and the Liam Neeson-starring Taken, gives us a new take on what he thinks of science fiction. For one,…
Review: Woody Allen’s ‘Magic in the Moonlight’, Starring Colin Firth and Emma Stone
For many, director extraordinaire Woody Alley has lost his spark, with only a couple of his movies still able to bring out the light that may have gone out years…
Review: ‘Mood Indigo’, Starring Audrey Tautou, Romain Duris, and Omar Sy
If Michel Gondry is good at one thing, it’s making smaller, more artsy-type films like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (one of my favorites). He’s less good at making…
Review: ‘Sex Tape’, Starring Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel
A few people have asked, given the fact that Sex Tape stars Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel in the same movie again, if it’s a sequel to Bad Teacher. The…
Mae’s Movie Review Wrap-up: ‘Snowpiercer’, ‘Jersey Boys’
Snowpiercer – There was a lot of talk surrounding South Korean director Joon-ho Bong’s first English-language film. It was heavily anticipated, and before being distributed in the U.S., Bong fought with…
