Based on a true story and directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot follows a reporter on a series of misadventures through Afghanistan. However, does the film strike the right tone for a film set in one of the United States’ most contentious wars? Continue reading
Our Brand is Crisis, the latest film from Director David Gordon Green and Producers George Clooney and Grant Heslov, is a fictionalized remake of the documentary of the same name by Rachel Boynton. The film follows a presidential election in Bolivia and how the candidates use American political strategists to win. Is the film another great political satire or dead on arrival? Continue reading
Movies based on TV shows are tricky things. Some are great self-contained stories that not only please fans of the series, but also create new fans of the property, like in the case of X-Files, while others are throwbacks to an earlier, more creative period of a long-running series, like in the case of The Simpsons Movie. Then there are movies like Entourage. Continue reading
On the surface, The Judge looks like it should be a homerun. However, the final product is an overlong, but enjoyable movie with serious identity problems. Continue reading
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