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
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
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
It has taken me a couple of days to jot down thoughts on Bong Joon-ho‘s film Snowpiercer before typing this review, in part because the film that is such a jolt to the system that you need some time to recover. There’s so much to digest with the movie that you have to let it
How does one react when a crisis seems both right next door and worlds away? This is one of the many questions the characters in Chris Mason Johnson‘s film Test, which tackles the AIDS crisis from the POV of a young gay man who is an understudy in a dance company. Rather than just focusing on the harrowing aspects of this era, Test seeks to explore the characters who just happen to be living in a time when this all was possible. In this respect, Test is a wonderful character study and tone poem, that although it doesn’t necessarily succeed in every avenue it hopes to explore, it’s well made enough to be an engaging film.