An adaptation of The Dead Rising Xbox game franchise and a sequel to 2015’s Dead Rising: Watchtower, Dead Rising: Endgame leaves behind a lot of the over-the-top gimmicky that made the original film such a fun experience, in favor of…
Nearly thirty-five years after its publication, director Steven Spielberg has delivered Roald Dahl’s The BFG onto the big screen. By reimagining the story with a script by the late Melissa Mathison, combined with cutting-edge digital effects, the magical world that…
An underrated work in John Huston’s filmography, Herman Melville’s massive novel Moby Dick is impossible to condense entirely as a film. However, Huston (with co-writer Ray Bradbury), managed to reduce the whole thing into two concise, yet exciting hours of…
Writer/director Bob Clark is probably best known to movie audiences as the writer/director of Porky’s (1982) and as the director of A Christmas Story (1983), for which he also wrote the screenplay with Jean Shepherd. Despite these forays into teenage…
Based on the 1910 E.M. Forester novel of the same name, Howards End captivated audiences and critics alike upon its theatrical release in 1992, becoming the biggest hit for director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant and scoring nine Oscar…
As the owner of two cats I consider my children, The Secret Life of Pets–clearly taking a cue from Toy Story–tug at my heartstrings. The story concerns how pets spend their day after their days after their owners leave for…
The Mechanic (2011) (which was a remake of the 1972 Charles Bronson vehicle), wasn’t a big hit. Thus, this sequel Mechanic: Resurrection was financed independently. Per star Jason Statham, after doing supporting roles in The Expendables 3 (2014), Furious 7…
Adapted from the novel by the same name by Philip Roth, Indignation like much of Rothschild work, concerns immortality and the inevitably of death. In 1951 at the height of the Korean War, Marcus Messer (Logan Lerman) the bright and…
Released in the U.S. in March of 2012, The Hunger Games is based on the novel of the same name by Suzanne Collins. Directed by Gary Ross, the film was an immediate box office hit, setting records with an opening…
A 1949 play by Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and won the Tony for Best Play. Considered one of the greatest plays of the 20th century, over the years, Death of a Salesman…