The Professor (2018)
Johnny Depp stars as an English professor for a prestigious New England college named Richard Brown who learns he has late-stage lung cancer and probably only six months to live without treatment, which he...
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Searching (2018)
Searching is a somber suspense-thriller that plays like a mix of a couple of other social media-savvy films like Catfish, Open Windows, and Unfriended, seeking to throw audiences based on the fact that much of our...
Deadpool (2016)
Interesting how fresh it all feels when there isn’t much about Deadpool that is truly unique. We’ve already had a vulgar R-rated superhero film in Kick-Ass. We’ve had the snarky, irreverent attitude in Guardians of the Galaxy. We’ve...
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)
The buzz of 2015’s Sundance Film Festival where it would win both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award, and for good reason, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl emerges as one of the...
3 Days to Kill (2014)
Ethan Runner (Costner) is dying of terminal brain cancer, diagnosed with mere months left to live. His work in the CIA is officially over, as he tends to get his affairs in order, which includes...
Fanboys (2009)
Set in 1998, the storyline follows a group of twenty-something longtime Ohio friends, struggling with the feeling like they need to move on with life and accomplishment, but still unwilling to give up their...
Out of Time (2003)
With the exception of Training Day, it’s generally a safe bet to avoid any vehicle in which Denzel Washington stars as a police officer. They usually rank as marginal entertainment (The Mighty Quinn, Devil in a...
Zig Zag (2002)
David S. Goyer’s previous work includes screenwriting credits on such films as Blade (and Blade II), Dark City, The Crow: City of Angels, Death Warrant and Kickboxer 2. Not exactly work brimming with character development. Curiously, Goyer’s first time directing a film...
Magnolia (1999)
Without a doubt, Magnolia is my personal pick for best film of 1999, and if it weren’t or The Shawshank Redemption, I’d say it was the best film of the 1990s. No, it wasn’t nominated for an...
Running Out of Time (1999)
While obvious comparisons to the American release, The Negotiator, will abound, credit producer-director Johnnie To (Lifeline, The Heroic Trio) for making this not only substantially different, but just as fun and exciting. The film casts Andy...