The Review at the End of the Universe
A directionless New Yorker moves out to Hollywood so that he can find some kind of purpose in life in Woody Allen’s Café Society. It’s a very familiar story that we will all have seen done a thousand times before. Nothing about the plot of the film will come across as surprising. Bobby (Jesse Eisenberg)…
It’s woman vs. nature as Blake Lively takes on a Great White Shark in Jaume Collet-Serra’s survival thriller The Shallows. On the surface -water pun definitely intended- the concept feels completely unoriginal with the potential to veer into very silly territory. How many shark movies have we seen since Jaws? How many of them have…
Lee Toland Krieger’s The Age of Adeline tells the story of a woman born in the early 20th century who accidentally finds herself immune to aging. Films like this don’t typically take my fancy but I guess throwing in a sci-fi idea like immorality and you get my attention. When I saw the trailer I…
