This Isn’t Radio Clash
Radioflash by Hope Madden See the solution, not the problem. That’s the mantra young Reese (Brighton Sharbino) repeats as she tries to find her way free of an ultra-realistic virtual…read more →
Archive For November, 2019
Read All About It
Scandalous: The True Story of the National Enquirer by George Wolf About 94 minutes into Scandalous, Mark Landsman’s completely engrossing documentary about tabloid journalism, you realize he’s buried the lede.…read more →
Redacted
The Report by Hope Madden Admit it. Own up to it. Hold yourself accountable. Then our country can move on. Oh right, also, I saw The Report this week. For…read more →
The Hills Are Alive
Reckoning by Hope Madden I’ve long felt that pre-film text-on-screen quotes are a cinematic crutch, often pretentious musings that rarely capture the essence of the film about to unspool. Then,…read more →
I Don’t Want to Go Out – Week of November 11
Tons of movies to fill your “I forgot how cold and crappy fall could be” hours. Some of these movies are great. Some of them are crap. We are here…read more →
Flightless Bird
Bluebird in My Heart by Brandon Thomas “There’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out, but I’m too tough for him. I say, stay in there, I’m…read more →
Last Action Hero
Re:Born by Rachel Willis How does one kill a ghost? That’s the question at the heart of the mystery in director Yûji Shimomura’s martial arts thriller, Re:Born. The film opens…read more →
Bombs Away
Midway by George Wolf After Independence Day, 2012, The Day After Tomorrow and more, the book on Roland Emmerich is fairly easy to read: expect spectacle over storytelling. Midway is…read more →
The Spirit of Giving
Last Christmas by Cat McAlpine Last Christmas, Kate (Emilia Clarke) had a lifesaving operation. Instead of gaining a new lease on life, she seems to have stumbled onward with a…read more →