Month: April 2016

Director: Jason Bateman Starring: Jason Bateman, Nicole Kidman, Christopher Walken Release: May 6th, 2016 Invoking the name of Tenenbaum?  How dare they.  It looks more like This is Where I…

Director: Mélanie Laurent Starring: Josephine Japy, Lou de Laage Year: 2014 Melanie Laurent has now impressed me in three films: Inglourious Basterds, Enemy, & By the Sea.  This talented &…

Director: Paul Greengrass Starring: Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, Tommy Lee Jones Release: July 29th, 2016 In theory they could make a million of these movies, up until the day Matt…

Director: Jon Favreau Starring: Neel Sethi, Ben Kingsley, Bill Murray Year: 2016 As a big fan of the 1967 original, this newest version of The Jungle Book had to be…

Director: Jean-François Richet Starring: Mel Gibson, Erin Moriarty, Diego Luna Release: August 26th, 2016 I was hoping that this would be a bit more than your typical action movie, especially…

Football is almost here!  It’s just a matter of time before the season begins.  The first step was Free Agency, the second was the Schedule.  And now the Draft!  This…

Director: Tate Taylor Starring: Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett, Allison Janney Luke Evans, Rebecca Ferguson, Edgar Ramirez, Laura Prepon Release: October 7th, 2016 Tate Taylor directed The Help and Get on…

Director: Robert Greenwald Starring: Russell Crowe, Salma Hayek Year: 1997 An odd mix of Warm Summer Rain and The Last Five Years, Breaking Up is a two-man-show romance/drama that refuses…

Director: Antoine Fuqua Starring: Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke Peter Sarsgaard, Haley Bennett, Vincent D’Onofrio, Vinnie Jones Release: September 23rd, 2016 In order to be impressed by Antoine Fuqua’s…

Director: Hank Bedford Starring: Chris Zylka, Riley Keough, Faith Hill Year: 2015 Hank Bedford has been a part of the crew for some pretty excellent films.  He was an assistant…