Not being a 16-year-old girl, I haven’t read any of the Hunger Games books, which is no big deal; I actively avoid reading the source material before its theatrical adaptation anyway. I’m not a literary critic, and going in clean allows me to experience the film on its own merits. But if I ...
Mexico’s “Santa Claus” has got to be the most bizarre film in my collection. And believe me, I have many of them. I don’t think there are words in the English language to describe how strange this film is, but I will try my best. My good friend Doug Gibson was kind enough to record this ...
Audiences can be forgiven for mistaking “Love the Coopers” for a romantic comedy.Certainly the trailer and marketing all point this direction, with the opening titles continuing in this vein; filled with harmless holiday eye candy that belies the bleakness to come in this cheerless family ...
<em>Video Rewind is a review of an avant-garde, cultish, or otherwise odd film that has a small or large following. That means, by its fans, it can be watched over and over with greater enjoyment. We will feature films that can be accessed either via Netflix, OnDemand, or other ...
“Let’s get us some miners!”In 2010, much of the world held their collective breath while 33 miners were trapped some 2000 feet below ground for nearly 70 days in Colombia. Since much of this movie is well known, the filmmakers wisely get right to it and the collapse that cuts the ...
<em>Video Rewind is a review of an avant-garde, cultish, or otherwise odd film that has a small or large following. That means, by its fans, it can be watched over and over with greater enjoyment. We will feature films that can be accessed either via Netflix, OnDemand, or other ...
Watching the Spanish-language ’Dracula’ on the big screen was a marvelous experience, for it is a splendid film. But seeing it with the Tod Browning-directed, Bela Lugosi-starring iconic “Dracula” reinforces how much more effective that film is. Browning understood what George ...
OGDEN — Mark your calendar to watch a free screening of <strong>“Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark,”</strong> the first of the three Indiana Jones adventures concocted by Steven Spielberg and George Lucas.The event is from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, ...
As evidenced by the lack of quality offerings out there, making a decent horror film is hard. Comedy is even harder. Mixing the two genres can make for disastrous results, and only a few have combined these seemingly disparate genres relatively well (think “Army of Darkness” or “An ...
Although well-timed considering we in America are already knee-deep in the upcoming 2016 election process, “Our Brand Is Crisis” doesn’t go far enough for most of its runtime, and then at the last minute it goes somewhere disconnected; probably in an effort to give a rather cynical movie ...
