THE GENERAL IDEA Here’s the thing about movie comedies in recent years. They’re not funny. Well, a precious few are certainly. But the vast majority are pandering, forced, uncreative lowest common denominator exercises in witless tripe. Makes you long for ...
THE GENERAL IDEA Four disgraced Catholic priests and a mysterious nun live together in a house situated in a remote seaside town. Each must atone for sins of the past. Collectively they comprise the “The Club”. And they don’t take ...
https://youtu.be/j2ZEa97VRDU THE GENERAL IDEA I have found Australian cinema to be roundly satisfying, particularly as regards recent entries. However, I’d like to go back some four and a half decades if you’ll so indulge to discuss a film that even now delivers one helluva wallup. ...
THE GENERAL IDEA James Caan is Axel Freed, a gambling addict hell-bent on self-destruction in the gritty 1974 crime drama “The Gambler”. A college literature professor by day, Axel wages a vicious war with himself off campus during his off ...
The General Idea What begins as an emotional exploration of coming to terms with unbearable loss evolves into something even more decidedly dark in the psychological thriller “The Invitation”. Logan Marshall-Green (“Prometheus”, “As I Lay Dying”) is Will, who along ...
With the baseball season in full swing now here’s a throwback to one of the sport’s stars of the past whose legacy after he left the game is far more lasting than anything he ever did on the diamond. You don’t have to be ...
With the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs getting underway this week, I thought it would be fun to dip into the archives for my review of the 2011 dramedy hockey flick “Goon”. Right off the bat (or “stick” in the case ...
I truly believe that I could watch Jake Gyllenhaal order a double tall non fat soy latte at Starbuck’s, sit down at a table, open up the L.A. Times and then read the damn thing from cover to cover ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOxHv3ERsdY With the proliferation of faith-based movies currently in theaters now (“Miracles from Heaven”, “God’s Not Dead 2”, “The Young Messiah” among others) I thought it would be interesting to review one among the genre from 2011, “Higher Ground”. THE GENERAL ...
The essence of baseball is the primal battle between the pitcher and batter, but the magic of the game arises from that confrontation, only 396 milliseconds in the making. The mysteries and memories of Baseball’s greatest heroes are revealed in ...
When Krisha shows up at her sister’s Texas home on Thanksgiving morning, her close and extended family greet her with a mixture of warmth and wariness. Almost immediately, a palpable unease permeates the air, one which only grows in force ...
As one of his all-time biggest fans, when I saw that living legend Robert Redford was among the deep pockets to pony up as Exec Producer for the domestic suspense drama “The Adderall Diaries”, instantaneously my interest was peaked. And ...
