January 4th, 2023 by Brandon Peters
As per every year, the one genre you can count on for both original content and box office success is horror. 2022 offered a variety of delights to appetize, including The Menu back in November to play concurrent to Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Now, the Anya Taylor-Joy/Ralph Fiennes thrilling dark comedy will be coming to […]
November 17th, 2017 by Jason Coleman
The year may be coming to an end soon, but the barrage of smaller screen fare is still alive and kicking. (And that’s not including indie Oscar fare that studios only put out in the final two months!) An urban drama where two different but similar universes exist, a terror tale about a creepy dude […]
April 28th, 2017 by Aaron Neuwirth
Closing out the 18th Annual Newport Beach Film Festival is The Exception, a World War II drama that may as well be called The Good Nazi. Adapted from the novel “The Kaiser’s Last Kiss” by Alan Judd, the film tells the story of a German Nazi Captain who falls in love with a Jewish Dutch […]
December 23rd, 2016 by Jason Coleman
For a thorough movie purist like myself putting together a year-end list of stellar standout performances is a truly taxing task. Not one to simply cherry pick from work within my Top Ten Films of the year, I scour movies in every genre and performances both big and small to bring the best of the […]
May 29th, 2014 by Aaron Neuwirth
On the surface, placing audiences inside the head of one of the more memorable Disney villains of all time seems like a pretty interesting idea. Add to that a casting choice that has rarely seemed any less perfect and you have a high concept Disney film with built in appeal from multiple standpoints. I only […]
February 2nd, 2012 by Aaron Neuwirth
I kid around in my title, but really, when you are the lead in one of the most popular film franchises of all time and now star in a completely different film, it is hard not to call attention to this fact. Daniel Radcliffe stars in an old fashioned horror film (actually produced by Hammer […]