Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Film critics appear to be going mad for Mad Max: Fury Road in a way I don’t quite understand, even if I feel that it does deliver the goods, action-wise, with sufficiency. It’s wacked-out fun, and...
Category: 2010s
The Age of Adaline (2015)
Given what lengths many go to to stay looking young, let’s all hope that there aren’t a bunch of women driving around Sonoma County, California, looking for snowfall to drive off the road into...
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
One might surmise that writer-director Joss Whedon (Much Ado About Nothing, Serenity) might be engaging in a bit of damage control that Avengers: Age of Ultron might be a bit of a let-down as far as entries...
Ex Machina (2015)
Esteemed screenwriter Alex Garland (Dredd, Sunshine) writes and directs (his first) this fascinating science fiction drama, which plays like a futuristic chamber piece about reality, fantasy, truth, manipulation, deception, humanity and lack thereof. To avoid...
Unfriended (2014)
A fairly interesting premise isn’t able to capitalize in this rather non-scary, non-thrilling entry in the low-budget horror genre that aims to bring things to the forefront of modern technology, and yet, at its...
Woman in Gold (2015)
“Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I” is a painting by renown Viennese painter Gustav Klimt from 1907, reportedly taking over three years to complete. Klimt was hired for the portrait by Adele’s wealthy husband, Ferdinand,...
Furious 7 (2015)
The gang is back for, the poster says, “one last ride.” If this is the last film for the main core players of the franchise (don’t bet on it; promotional interviews already are talking...
It Follows (2014)
Writer-director David Robert Mitchell’s (The Myth of the American Sleepover) sophomore feature effort is an homage of sorts to horror films of the late 1970s and early 1980s, especially Halloween, The Shining and its ilk. No,...
’71 (2014)
At its heart, ’71 is a standard caught-behind-enemy-lines story of someone trying desperately to make it back home alive, yet encountering trouble at seemingly every turn. The sparsely worded script by Gregory Burke ups the...
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)
Though one would have thought this an unlikely property for a franchise, the first Best Exotic Marigold Hotel was a surprise hit, taking in nearly $140 million worldwide on a $10 million budget. I suppose that...