WATCH NOW Certain films are so close to being good, so close to achieving a rare level of brilliance, your anger springs from said work not reaching those heights. Director Neill Blomkamp’s “Gran Turismo,” a crowd-pleasing, genre-bending sports drama, approaches wonder with an odd tepidness; it maneuvers around any modicum of character development by taking […]
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WATCH NOW Many experts claim that the greatest strain in any relationship is caused by money. Financial stressors act as a litmus test for most couples and families determining whether they will emerge victorious or not. In Jeremy Mitchell’s feature Final Heat, a business couple faces their greatest challenge towards the end of their business
WATCH NOW Someone, and I believe it was myself, remarked the other day that Hollywood never really ceased producing B movies, they merely increased the budgets to over one hundred million dollars and classified them as A movies, which is the case for “Vertical Limit.” Hollywood knows how to market poorly built pulp novels’ interactions
WATCH NOW A friend of mine from Montclair, New Jersey, one evening took me on a tour of the lavish neighborhood on the hill. I remember seeing all the mansions that belonged to celebrities like Stephen Colbert. At one point, my friend said, “No matter which fork you take, you get to Yogi Berra’s house”
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WATCH NOW The faith-based football bio-drama “Greater” absolutely fails on so many levels where someone would scarcely know where to begin. The word “inspiring” is used loosely in this duller-than-dull story, it is devoid of any emotions and nothing in it resonates with you, it is sorrowful but dri-eyed and reminiscent of the classic tale
WATCH NOW Connor (Kellan Lutz) is a LaCrosse striker in high school with some serious attitude issues. He’s a passionate high school senior, but due to his many misdemeanors, he has a reputation as a poor team player who spends most of his time on the bench. Everything changes when his father, an active-duty Marine,
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WATCH NOW How on earth do you consume pizza with your elbows? Its a perfectly normal question for a child to pose to a quadraplegic, and Bob Lujano loves to respond to it. He along with other stars of the documentary film called Murderball hope more people would prefer asking more questions rather than remaining
WATCH NOW Absolutely. And the movie works remarkably. I began by skipping the required sections, and to my amazement, I started enjoying myself. Like Shall We Dance or Saturday Night Fever, it transcends its genre. That’s partially due to the fact that the screenplay does not adhere to the typical good vs. bad storyline, as
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WATCH NOW “My All American” earns most of its single shiny star by wasting no time in confirming its outright mushiness. Its first scene involves Aaron Eckhart, aged to a Clint Eastwood-like stoicism with the emphasis on white caterpillar eyebrows, answering a poor reporter’s simple question on who his favorite All-American was, with overstuffed straight
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WATCH NOW “The Keeper” is an applicant, if a rather plodding, lumbering film biography of the edge of stolid Manchester City soccer’s goalie, Bert Trautmann, a hugely popular man from the late 40s to the 1960s. He was previously a German paratrooper POW in Britain, recruited to play for a local club before the war’s
