It’s the end of the year, and that means another installment of the Best of the Wurst–what I thought were the best films of 2015. Enjoy! Love & Mercy I fell hard for this Brian Wilson rock and roll bio the first time I saw it, at the opening night of last summer's Maui Film Festival. Whether you're a fan of The Beach Boys, this wondrous, emotionally devastating true … [Read more...] about Best of the Wurst – The Best Films of 2015
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Summer Movie 2015 Wrap-Up
The summer movie parade began with Furious 7 and stumbled into a crawl with Hitman: Agent 47. In between was one of the best summer movie seasons in years. As we all head back to school, here's a final recap of the summer of 2015. THE BEST George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road was the unbeatable game changer, a muscular, down and dirty spectacle that had smarts as well as … [Read more...] about Summer Movie 2015 Wrap-Up
IRRATIONAL MAN New Movie Review
For decades, Woody Allen has been making a movie a year and never shown any signs of slowing down. He turns 80 in December, has 47 movies behind him, is currently making an original series for Amazon and is about to shoot his first film with Bruce Willis. Allen, one of the great American filmmakers, has managed to have an extraordinarily durable career, in spite … [Read more...] about IRRATIONAL MAN New Movie Review
A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST New Movie Review
It's easy to pinpoint exactly when Seth MacFarlane's A Million Ways to Die in the West stops working. It's the moment, a few minutes in, when MacFarlane first appears as the hero of his own picture. While proving elsewhere to be a versatile comic force, with his ever-popular Family Guy on TV, the hit and miss but massively popular Ted and a CD of his crooning lounge favorites, … [Read more...] about A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST New Movie Review
AMERICAN HUSTLE New Movie Review
Just one year after his wonderful, uniquely offbeat valentine, Silver Linings Playbook, director David O'Russell returns with an amusingly brash American crime film. Here's one of the year's most entertaining films, filled with full-throttle performances, giant laughs and deliciously twisty plotting. It opens with a title card that declares "Some of This Actually Happened." … [Read more...] about AMERICAN HUSTLE New Movie Review