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Even though ‘The Beasts’ is a Spanish Cinema true crime thriller, it at first appears to be a tragic tale of an outsider group fighting with their Galician neighbors. This dispute seems to be inspired by the Dutch couple – Margo and Martin Verfondern – who fought over farming land near their house. Seeking revenge, […]

The Spy Kids series has, for some time, been plagued by diminishing returns. While Rodriguez’s sheer inventiveness was on full display in the 2001 original, its subsequent installments have been visibly annoying and monotonous.  These are movies made for families, and sometimes by his family, since the Austin based director always seems to have a

It often begins with a friendly adaption from a fellow parent or a member of the church, only for it to progress negatively when you are approached by a pastor who in a stern manner reprimands you for worshiping other deities. Even though you are being reprimanded, you feel as though the infraction is minor

At the center of “My Sailor, My Love,” the film debut in English for Finnish director Klaus Härö, is a pale blue story of love gone bad and a chance for romance that comes at too late a stage in life. Even though it tries to deal with an overdone theme of intergenerational trauma, it

That sparkle in his eye is still there-the boyish charm and self-defacing humor that is quintessentially Canadian. It’s superb comic timing that propelled Michael J. Fox to superstardom in the 1980s that is becoming more and more elusive to him as the effects of dealing with Parkinson’s disease and its side effects pervade his daily

Mark Cousins has gained acclaim in both film writing as well as filmmaking. The two activities have such a high interplay that it is very safe to say that there is no way to draw any relations in between them using a Venn diagram. Cousins, aside from being a journalist, a scholar, a programmer, a

The “movie star,” or that enigma who has the ability to illuminate the room with his presence such that everyone is pulled into them, is on the verge of extinction. Jennifer Lopez happens to be a movie star of epic proportions who is the on-screen counterpart of an ultra-rare snow leopard. Lopez can effortlessly take

The film starts with the basic shot with a camera moving through a worn-down yet simple-looking house. Along the house’s corridors are crumpled and lifeless bodies. An unlatched door at the top of the staircase holds more mystery as screams echo from within. As we proceed down the squeaky stairs, we come across a corpse,

The film “Blackberry” is one of the best frenemies of money that every businessperson should watch alongside Glengarry Glen Ross, Wall Street, and The Wolf of Wall Street. These movies are fundamentally built around the same theme where the protagonists happen to be amoral, glorified psychopaths who operate in a world that is utterly corrupt.

Ordering “Sympathy for the Devil” to be “god awful” is not merely an attempt to be smart and clever with words. Nicolas Cage is back in the “let’s see what sticks” mode of taking on projects. Directed by Yuval Adler, written by Luke Paradise, and co-produced by Cage. This is a “two-hander,” in the realm