April looks like a good month for Netflix with a ton of movies hitting the streaming service! Here’s a few to look out for. Barton Fink The Cohen Brothers ’91 period film was their second collaboration with John Turturro. It tells the story of a Broadway writer who relocates to California to write for Hollywood. …
Captain America: The Winter Soldier opens in theaters nationwide today, April 4. Check your local listings for showtimes At this point we are pretty deep into the Marvel Universe. Fully into Phase 2 of their master plan, we have now had three Iron Mans, two Thors, an Avengers, and now a second Captain America, with …
Most bad movies have some redeemable quality: sometimes it’s a single stand-out performance or character; sometimes it’s that the film embraces its own campiness. But occasionally a movie is so bad that all you can think about is everything they could have done to make it less terrible.
“Scream,” the Wes Craven slasher that kickstarted the mid/late 90s resurgence of teen slashers could be coming to a TV Screen near you. Website Bloody Disgusting got their hands on some plot details of the Wes Craven helmed pilot for MTV. The script will be penned by Jill Blotevogel, and not the original writer of the …
Darren Aronofsky is a fascinating filmmaker. His films tend to be strong character pieces, and stories told with strong, sometimes disturbing, imagery. I remember being blown away the first time I saw his first feature, “Pi,” and have been fascinated by the choices he’s made since. When news broke about his new film “Noah,” some …
The list of films for the Independent Film Festival of Boston 2014 is out! The opening night film is BENEATH THE HARVEST SKY directed by Gita Pullapilly and Aron Gaudet, and the closing night film is from Michel Gondry, MOOD INDIGO.
After a winter hiatus, the LonelyReviewer Show returns! We play catch up with awards season, what we’ve watched and what we thought! Enjoy the episode below, download directly here, subscribe in iTunes, and for you non-iTunes people, you can find the feed here! [ca_audio url=”http://www.lonelyreviewer.com/podcast/episode11catchingup.mp3″ width=”600″ height=”27″ css_class=”codeart-google-mp3-player” autoplay=”false”] The LonelyReviewer Show is produced in …
Divergent opens in theaters nationwide today, March 21. Check your local listings for showtimes. As a reviewer of film, there is no greater pleasure than someone excitedly telling you that you helped them find a film that would have otherwise gone unseen. It is the clearest representation of the potential universality of film. Unfortunately, those …
I haven’t hid my love of Wolf of Wall Street at all, so it brought me great joy to see these two awesome candid videos appear on JoBlo’s Youtube page. About 12 minutes of seemingly random b-roll from the Wolf of Wall Street set. So often these types of things are tightly produced promotional tools …
300: Rise of an Empire opens in theaters everywhere today, March 7. Check your local listings for showtimes. Sequels have become standard fare in the multiplex. With franchises gaining establishment before their first installment even experiences its release date, to see the inevitable sequel set-up in the film’s final moments is closer to expectation than …