Film Review: Transformers: Age of Extinction

Has the ever been a filmmaker in our life time that consistently does the bare minimum with the most than Michael Bay? I mean got damn this man has EVERYTHING at his disposal and THIS was the best Transformers movie he could think of? Like…chile…I can’t even begin to tell you all how bad of

Film Review: La Bare

It’s no surprise that when actors do research for a role, that it can take on a life of its own. They are a part of the storytelling process and in being forced to go deep into the characters, often find new avenues of bringing these stories to life. For that reason, it’s probably not

Film Review: The Signal

Independent sci-fi can be a dicey proposition. Lower budgets can mean terrible special effects, the need to create intimacy can lead to poor execution. Luckily, director William Eubank avoids most, if not all of the problems, with his new film The Signal, one of the most compelling indie sci-fi films in the past few years. Read

Film Review: Comet

Much like the comets and shooting stars that Del (Justin Long) and Kimberly (Emmy Rossum) are waiting to see, Comet is a film you have to wait for to fully get. Not that waiting is a bad thing mind you. In fact it’s the anticipation of what might be said next or revealed visually that

Film Review: Earth to Echo

It’s a rare occasion for me to sit down for a film geared towards family entertainment (discounting animated films), which made Earth to Echo an interesting change of pace for me at the Los Angeles Film Festival this year. While I was engaged for much of the film, there was an inherent disconnect between what the movie

Film Review: My Name is Salt

Thoroughly composed and crafted their are going to be few documentaries are gorgeously made as My Name is Salt, the documentary playing in competition at the Los Angeles Film Festival. That beauty stands in such opposition with the hard manual labor the subjects that are the center of the doc is doing. Or perhaps they’re working

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