Cult antihero Max Rockatansky is back in Director-Co-Writer George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road. However, this is both a very similar and very different Mad Max than audiences may remember. Continue reading
Reviews
Doug Reviews: Avengers: Age of Ultron
The Summer Movie Season has begun and The Avengers are back! Is Age of Ultron the best Marvel movie yet or just another cog in the Marvel Machine? Continue reading
Doug Reviews: Ex Machina
Written and directed by Alex Garland, Ex Machina represents not just one of the better films this year, but one of the best sci-fi films of the last several years. Continue reading
Doug Reviews: The Age of Adaline
The Age of Adaline is a fantasy romance that explores themes of love and living, but is it any better than the typical Nicholas Sparks drivel out there? Continue reading
Doug Reviews: Child 44
Child 44, the latest film from Director Daniel Espinosa, should be a taut thriller with a solid cast, but in actuality, it’s kind of a mess. Continue reading
Doug Reviews: True Story
Director Rupert Goold’s latest film, True Story, is like Bennett Miller’s Capote, only not good. Continue reading
Doug’s 2015 Summer Movie Preview!
It’s that time of year again when the temperatures remind those in denial that maybe the Earth is getting hotter and everyone seeks shelter in the air-conditioned sanctuary that is the local multiplex. But what to watch once you’re there? Well, I’m here to clue you in on twenty-two of the films I’m most curious about this summer. Like with my Fall Preview last year, this will be a curtailed affair, so I won’t be slamming too many films as unwatchable, but in looking at the calendar, I don’t see many egregious offenders—for once. Maybe that means movies are getting better? But it’s probably more because Paul Blart 2 is a spring release.
As always, I’ll list the films in order by release date, but of course, those dates are always subject to change. 2015 is shaping up to be a movie year for the ages and it all begins with a minor indie release called: Continue reading
Doug Reviews: While We’re Young
Writer-Director Noah Baumbach‘s latest, While We’re Young, stars Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts as a married couple that seeks refuge with a younger couple when their friends have a baby. It’s also totally hilarious. Continue reading
Doug Reviews: Get Hard
Two of the biggest stars in comedy today team up in Director Etan Cohen’s Get Hard. However, is this film a home run or just a bunt? Continue reading
Doug Reviews: The Gunman
Sean Penn tries to collect some of that sweet Liam Neeson money by teaming with Taken director Pierre Morel in The Gunman. Unfortunately, this doesn’t end up being a recreation of Penn’s movie-within-a-movie from What Just Happened. Continue reading