Split (2016)
M. Night Shyamalan (The Visit, After Earth) returns to his regular mode with Split, a twisty thriller with mild horror elements, which some will view as a return to form of sorts. Certainly, there are moments...
Author: Vincent Leo
The Founder (2016)
Set primarily in the 1950s, we find Ray Kroc (Keaton, Spotlight) is a struggling traveling salesman trying to peddle an electric milkshake mixer that promises to spark sales by increasing the supply by shortening the wait...
Patriots Day (2016)
Bringing us back not so long ago to the fateful 2013 Boston Marathon comes Patriots Day, a thriller-oriented re-enactment of the events that transpired, with some embellishments to help the project commercially. One of those embellishments...
Silence (2016)
Shusaku Endo’s 1966 novel provides the basis for Martin Scorsese’s (The Wolf of Wall Street, Hugo) adaptation set in the 17th Century, regarding a couple of Portuguese missionaries, Father Sebastian Rodrigues (Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge) and Father Francisco...
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
Thor: Ragnarok sees the emergence of Hela (Blanchett, Carol), Goddess of Death, who ends up defiantly defeating her brothers, formerly exiled Thor (Hemsworth, Ghostbusters) and Loki (Hiddleston, Kong: Skull Island), and making her way to Asgard in order to...
Fences (2016)
Set in Pittsburgh in the 1950s, Troy Maxson (Washington, The Magnificent Seven) is a 53-year-old former negro league baseball star currently working as a sanitation worker, earning the money he hands over to his wife of...
American Honey (2016)
It’s the first film written and directed by Andrea Arnold (Wuthering Heights, Fish Tank) in the United States, based upon an article from a New York Times article written in 2007 exploring the phenomenon...
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Rogue One is a Star Wars prequel that spins off of the line at the beginning of the original Star Wars (Episode IV) that mentions that rebel spies stole the secret plans for the Death Star. This one has...
La La Land (2016)
Emma Stone (Aloha, Irrational Man) stars as a struggling actress named Mia, who works as a barista in a coffee shop on the Warner Bros. lot, in between auditions that only serve to make her...
Miss Sloane (2016)
Jessica Chastain (The Huntsman, Crimson Peak) stars as the Machiavellian strategist Elizabeth Sloane, a shrewd and brilliantly effective lobbyist in Washington DC, whose main goal in any situation is to win at any cost, even...