What if. . . John Wick and Rambo had a kid back in WWII in Finland, and he had the same insatiable thirst for killing Nazis like in one of Tarantino’s movies? Then you’d have this wildly bloody actioner from the land of Christmas trees and reindeer. It’s 1944 and the Germans (who all speak…
Hooray for Bollywood! Normally I don’t review Indian/Hindi films, but someone recommended this one and I was glad I saw it! A blockbuster sensation in India, it’s the most expensive film ever made in that country and I can see why! Clocking in at over three hours (as most Bollywood films are), this 1920’s action/adventure…
Remember Netflix’s original movie, Army of the Dead, back in May? This is a prequel to that film. Set six years before the horrifying zombie apocalypse destroyed Vegas, this film centers on the first movie’s quirky, wisecracking German safecracker, Ludwig Deter. In Germany, Matthias Schweighöfer plays a timid, master safecracker & historian named Sebastian (who…
This isn’t the first time Hollywood has given us films about the disabled and the people who cared for them. Me Before You, The Fundamentals of Caring, Breathe, The Theory About Everything, and The Intouchables are just a few. However, this one strives to be more mainstream than the others. Does it work? * In…
One wouldn’t think that Ang Lee’s seminal Brokeback Mountain would be ripe for a remake already, but damned if first time feature director Francis Lee hasn’t moved the action from the American West to the hills of Yorkshire, England and come up with a comparable film. Recently screened at the 60th Annual San Francisco International…
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