It’s hard not to get swept up in the excitement when a celebrated filmmaker like Francis Ford Coppola unleashes a big-budgeted film they have been talking about publicly for decades and which they financed completely with their own plentiful resources. True independent film on a large scale can be endlessly amazing because it combines glamourous […]

When I admire a film as much as I do writer/director Harmony Korine’s 2013 effort, Spring Breakers, I feel an obligation to find merit in the rest of its creator’s filmography, regardless of whether or not it deserves it. For this reason, I really tried to like one of Korine’s latest efforts, Aggro Dr1ft, the […]

A pair of FBI agents (Maika Monroe and Blair Underwood) are in pursuit of an elusive serial killer (Nicolas Cage) whose murders have spanned decades. The killer’s only ties to his victims are coded notes signed with the name “Longlegs” that are left at the scenes of his crimes. No other evidence proves his involvement, […]

Kevin Costner’s first directorial effort since 2003’s Open Range is a massive but flawed accomplishment that ultimately manages to survive some rather significant faults. The first of a proposed, highly ambitious four-part feature film series has a lot going for it, despite not entirely working as a standalone effort. If you know going in that […]

This second and, for now, final installment of co-writer/director Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon films is as much of a marvel as the first. Consisting of elements that belong to such genres as action, sci-fi, and fantasy, its Star Wars-influenced (it was initially conceived as a Star Wars story that was later rejected by Lucasfilm) universe […]