Film Review: 20 Feet From Stardom

Directed by Morgan Neville Starring Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fisher, Tata Vega, Judith Hill and several others, and the groups/singers they backed up This is both a joyful and a frustrating film. Each of the women listed above had the talent to be headlining...

Film Review: WORLD WAR Z

Directed by Marc Foster Written by Matthew Michael Carnahan, Dean Goddard and based on the novel by Max Brooks Starring Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, David Morse, Daniella Kertesz, Matthew Fox In the months before the release of WORLD WAR Z, the buzz was it was a colossal...

Film Review: BEFORE MIDNIGHT.

Directed by: Richard Linklater Written by Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delphy This is the third installment of a trilogy that began in 1995 with the ethereal BEFORE SUNRISE, which took place in Vienna. There we met a young couple, Jesse (Hawke) and Celine (Delphy),...

Film Review: THE EAST

Directed by Zal Batmanglij Written by Batmanglij and Brit Marling Starring: Brit Marling, Alexander Skarsgard, Ellen Page, Patricia Clarkson, Julia Ormond Brit Marling plays Sarah, a former C.I.A operative who now works for an elite group that infiltrates terrorist...

Film Review: THIS IS THE END

Written and Directed by Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogan Starring: Seth Rogan, James Franco, Jonah Hill, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride and Craig Robinson I have been trying to remember if there’s another movie where all the actors play themselves. I can’t think of one and...