Manic – Fifteen years ago this week director Jordan Melamed released his only narrative feature, a look into the journey of a troubled and violent teen played by Joseph Gordon Levitt who is checked into a juvenile mental institution. This was the first onscreen pairing of Levitt and co-star Zooey Deschanel in a story that …
Deadpool 2 – Sequels always have such a large bar to clear when it comes to expectations and recapturing that lightning in a bottle. It gets double hard when your first film slayed all expectations and kicked the door down at the box office for R-rated comic book movies. Amazingly enough, Ryan Reynolds’ “merc with …
Revenge – Coming from first-time feature writer and director Coralie Fargeat, this is a film you will not forget and one I may have sitting in my top ten at the end of this year. A film in the vein of I Spit On Your Grave but with a “never say die” feminist edge, this …
Tully – The combo of writer Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman has always been a winning one for me ever since I got my advance look at Juno in 2007. On her own, Cody struck out a bit with Jennifer’s Body but the two reunited for Young Adult with Charlize Theron and knocked another …
Avengers: Infinity War – If you didn’t think I’d kick off this week with this gargantuan epic of a blockbuster then you might be a bit nutty because this movie satisfied me in every way as a movie fan and a comic book nerd. Now, before everyone gets upset, I will preface this by informing …
Super Troopers 2 – Seventeen years after making a huge comedy splash with a film about the hijinks of a squad of highway patrolman, Broken Lizard are back with a kickstarted sequel, picking up where they left off. Think of all the quotable lines from that first film and how fondly it’s reminisced about. How …
1. Borg vs. McEnroe – How good could a movie about tennis be? A better question, is it better than Wimbledon? That last one is misleading because no film can unseat that Paul Bettany/Kirsten Dunst classic. I kid, I kid, this one is infinitely better and is completely devoid of an awkward romantic center. Instead …
In an attempt to bring you the best of what’s out there I give you my “High Spots” of the week, three noteworthy things you need to check out: 1. Blockers – Coming off of WrestleMania weekend, you might think I’m exhausted to death about talking about wrestling and wrestlers but I think John Cena’s …
In an attempt to bring you the best of what’s out there I give you my “High Spots” of the week, three noteworthy things you need to check out: 1. Isle Of Dogs – Wes Anderson makes a triumphant return to stop animation, following up what I think the crowning achievement of his career was, …
In an attempt to bring you the best of what’s out there I give you my “High Spots” of the week, three noteworthy things you need to check out: Unsane – Steven Soderbergh is really bad at this whole retirement thing. Returning last year with his “Ocean’s 7/11” style film Logan Lucky, he is back …
Steve Stebbing 