After Tangerine his quite remarkable sophomore film was the most talked-about and exciting premiere at Sundance two years, there was an enormous air of expectation to see how Sean Baker would fare with his follow-up movie. It turns out that there was no need to worry at all, and he ditched his Iphone 5’s and … Continue reading
Veteran Oscar-winner Shirley MacLaine is one of those rare breed of actors that we would happily wait in line just to hear her read the Telephone Directory out loud, in fact there are parts in this rather tepid contrived comedy that we wished she had being doing just that. It wasn’t the fact that this … Continue reading
Writer/director Jeff Baena ‘s new movie is very loosely based on a very tiny part of Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14th-century classic The Decameron using two of the many bawdy stories to make this amusing comedy of his. Using a talented cast of actors most of whom are usually found in TV series, a good part of The … Continue reading
This oddball hybrid of movie is part documentary and part fictional comedy that tries desperately hard to milk ever ounce of humor in an awkward parody of online dating. The central figure in the Lonely Italian is Domenico Nesci an Italian TV & Radio host who also once starred in two MTV Reality Shows “That’s Amore” … Continue reading
This is the fictional story of how the great British Victorian novelist Charles Dickens came to write his classic tale that many hold responsible for making Christmas one our most popular holidays. When we first catch sight of Dickens (Dan Stevens) he is touring America at the height of his fame. When he returns … Continue reading