by Jeff Michael Vice | May 6, 2014 | Editor's Picks, Reviews, What's Hot
What you need to know about Fading Gigolo: The romantic comedy stars John Turturro as a middle-aged male prostitute. And Woody Allen plays his best friend and “pimp.” Either you find that idea funny or you don’t. And if you do, you’ll probably enjoy this most peculiar...
by Jeff Michael Vice | May 1, 2014 | Editor's Picks, Reviews, What's Hot
In terms of actual content, The Turn of THIS Century is a fairly cursory, if well-researched tour through the major events that shaped nearly 100 years of human history, primarily those history-defining moments that occurred during the 20th century. And to be...
by Jeff Michael Vice | Apr 30, 2014 | Editor's Picks, Reviews, What's Hot
For all the things the first Amazing Spider-Man movie did right, it failed in several other, equally important respects. For one thing, it failed to develop a villain that was anywhere close to being as interesting or as integral to the plot as its title character....
by Jeff Michael Vice | Apr 16, 2014 | Editor's Picks, Reviews, What's Hot
Transcendence marks the feature filmmaking debut of Wally Pfister, the “visionary” cinematographer who was responsible at least in part for the mind-blowing look of Inception, Chris Nolan’s 2010, love-it-or-hate-it, dream-world hit. Pfister’s science-fiction thriller...
by Jeff Michael Vice | Apr 15, 2014 | Editor's Picks, Reviews, What's Hot
Silence is never more golden anywhere than it is documentary features. Most, if not all of them, have to employ some sort of voice-over narration to impart certain information. Unfortunately, that narration can be as much a hindrance as a help with the genre. When it...
by James Rocchi | Feb 4, 2014 | Editor's Picks, Reviews, Staff Picks, What's Hot
Seen as an eye-rolling example of branding-mad Hollywood at its worst when first announced, The Lego Movie edged slightly towards the possibility of not being a brain-dead commercial for itself with the hiring of Chris Miller and Phillip Lord as writers and directors....
