John Goodman
Bright and peppy, The Wachowski’s Speed Racer is a bonafide live-action cartoon and well worth a second look.
With a premise filled with potential and talent both in front of and behind the screen, Captive State is an unfortunate disappointment.
With Criterion’s Blu-ray, True Stories will satisfy old fans and find new ones, just as every generation eventually discovers the Talking Heads.
Nearly a decade after an occupation by an extra-terrestrial force, Captive State explores the lives on both sides of the conflict.
Once Upon A Time In Venice is clearly a film made by cinephiles, but the scattered subplots and underdeveloped characters combine for an overall misfire.
Atomic Blonde may be sloppy in structure, but it is oozing with immaculately executed action and a finely tuned performance by Theron.
The inner urge for survival is the most primitive of all impulses. For the longest time, sex was believed to be the driving force that pushes people, unconsciously and fully-cognizant, towards certain results in life. But after WWII especially, psychologists and holocaust survivors began to revisit the idea, and psychoanalysts took the obvious cue from Darwin:
Hollywood and the golden age of film have now all but faded into history, and any glimpse into that world is for that reason a glimpse into history itself. Trumbo is a look at the show business world following the Cold War, when Hollywood started to blacklist people solely due to their political alignments. Starring the very talented Bryan Cranston as the titular character, the film is not only a successful character study and biopic, it is also an engaging and entertaining glimpse at a very dark time in Hollywood’s history.
