The Greatest Showman – 2017

Musicals are coming back in a big way, and none is more of a spectacle than the Greatest Showman. Hugh Jackman stars as P.T. Barnum and the film shows Barnum’s early years founding his famous circus. The film follows a pretty standard formula, but it offers up CGI heavy musical numbers that leave he audience […]

It’s a Wonderful Life – 1946

No Christmas is complete without It’s a Wonderful Life. There is something to watching the heartwarming tale of George Bailey on Christmas Day while thinking about all the good things that you have in life. There’s a reason that this film is considered the quintessential Christmas film as its message has endured for 70 years. […]

A Most Wanted Man – 2014

Gone too soon is a phrase that is used a lot to describe good actors who have passed away, I’ll use it here to describe Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Hoffman’s last starring role is as Gunther Bachmann, a German Intelligence Agent using a political refugee to catch a terrorism financier. The film works well to showcase […]

Detroit – 2017

Race relations in this country have always been tense, but few times have been as destructive as the 1967 Detroit riots. Beginning with a series of arrests and ending with one of the worst riots in American history. The film revolves around a shooting at the Algiers Motel which quickly gets out of hand after […]

War for the Planet of the Apes – 2017

Motion-capture technology has come a long way in a short amount of time and no one has been more involved than Andy Serkis. By the time a franchise has reached its third film, the premise might seem a little stale, but this is not the case with the new Planet of the Apes. Each film […]

Kong: Skull Island – 2017

King Kong is a cultural icon and has been featured in films for over 80 years. The latest treatment he received is in Kong: Skill Island, which focuses on a group of scientists and soldiers who discover his Island in the 70s. The film might have Kong in the title, but his role in the […]