MAGPIE
“As thin as Ben is on the page, Latif’s performance makes him practically transparent. He starts as a scumbag and only grows scummier as the story movies along.” – John Black, Cinekong
MY NAME IS ALFRED HITCHCOCK
“My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock is an unusual approach to the oeuvre of filmdom’s ‘Master Of Suspense.’ Some forty years after his death, it imagines him coming back and discussing his life and career from a modern perspective. It is audacious and it works.”– Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies
VENOM: THE LAST DANCE
“Tom Hardy and director Kelly Marcel made a film that was joyless and cynical.” – Byron McNeal, On The Reel On Tumblr
HANGDOG
“In the end, Hangdog is just a shaggy dog story in search of a punchline.”– Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies
“There will be a lot of horror films released prior to Halloween this month. Some of them may be worth seeing. Alas, Children Of The Pines isn’t one of them.”
“The Goldman Case is a riveting courtroom drama from France, detailing a trial that caught national attention in a similar manner to the way that the O.J. Simpson trial did here.”
“Woman Of The Hour is a tight little true-crime story set against one of the cheesiest game shows on television; truth is stranger than fiction.”
“The climax of the movie takes place at Mar-a-Lago lit like a haunted castle as the now enfeebled Cohn confronts the monster he created but never saw coming.”
“And if substituting dialogue for music is your plan, at least spread it thin or write original songs, it didn’t work for Moulin Rouge and it certainly didn’t work here.”
“Goebbels and the Führer is a disturbing film and is meant to be.”
“Well written, animated brilliantly and slightly imperfect, just like Roz and that’s beautiful.”
“So how cool is it that an 85-year-old Maverick, who has some of cinema’s most significant achievements on his resume (Godfathers 1 & 2, Apocalypse Now, and The Conversation), finds the balls to risk it all on a dream movie that maybe only he fully understands?”