12 Years a Slave expands to Boston today, October 25. Check your local listings for showtimes. Reviewing film can be very complicated. Regardless of the amount of time that each review takes to write, (and trust me it is more than you think) most go without being fully read. Aggregators like Rotten Tomatoes boil the …
I think at this point it’s safe to say that I watch Rob Zombie’s movies because of The Devil’s Rejects. That film, for all of its terrible sleaziness, was really, really well made. You can argue the merits of its message, the idea of who the heroes are, but you can’t argue that Zombie had …
Carrie opens in theaters everywhere today, October 18. Check your local listings for showtimes. In the current climate of remakes, reboots and sequels, it was only a matter of time before we got to Carrie. Sure it was remade as a garbage television film in 2002, there was a sequel that should never be spoken …
A.C.O.D. expands nationwide today, October 11. Check your local listings for showtimes. Television and film comedies are beginning to look awfully familiar. Rather than a sharp divide between the two, actors are seamlessly hopping between the two mediums. The stigma associated with the small screen, and having it be merely a springboard to features is …
Looking to travel the world, but on a budget to stay local? Well then welcome to Foreign Friday, where we take international trips from the domestic locale known as your living room. An exploration of the world through its cinema, we don’t let the existence of subtitles scare us away. This week we stay on …
Rush opens in theaters everywhere today, September 27. Check GoWatchIt for showtimes. International receipts are growing in importance. The box office used to be won and lost on American soil but things are certainly changing. Pacific Rim may have underperformed domestically but with an Asian market ravenously consuming it, sequel talks have managed to germinate. …
When Comedy Went to School opens in limited release Friday, September 20. Check your local listings for showtimes. Any fan of comedy has at least heard of the Catskill Mountains. Older comics fondly recall a time when you could try out your material in family atmospheres shrouded in foliage. When a car ride Upstate led …
Here on LonelyReviewer, it is our mission to continually explore all that the film medium has to offer. Foreign Friday is our weekly journey into the realm of the international, putting aside our smart phones to focus more completely on the big screen and the subtitles running along its bottom. Plumbing the vast caverns of …
I Declare War opens in select theaters today, August 30. Check local listings for showtimes. It is also available on VOD and iTunes. The ripest imagination resides in the mind of a child. There are little cares for what is accepted or cool, and the mind is allowed to explore as far as it can …
Short Term 12 expands nationwide today, August 30. Check local listings for showtimes. It’s nothing new for a film to deal with the trials and tribulations of childhood, or even to explore the experiences of the less fortunate. Nevertheless, it is an exceedingly tough topic to communicate properly. Perhaps it is that adult directors have …