Couples Weekend
“Couples Weekend”
Two couples head to a remote cabin to celebrate New Year and deal with the potential end of their marriages in Nora Kirkpatrick’s Couples Weekend.
A Dog’s Purpose
A reincarnating Dog tries to figure out what his purpose in life is over the course of several lifetimes with different owners in Lasse Hallström’s A Dog’s Purpose. Summing up the premise of this film makes it sound ludicrous and in some ways it is but that’s the beauty of fiction as far as I’m…
Beauty and the Beast
Disney retells the tale as old as time in Bill Condon’s live action adaptation of their animated classic Beauty and the Beast. Everyone surely knows the story by now. A prince is cursed to live out his days as a beast unless he can find true love before the last petal of a rose falls….
Star Wars Rebels – Season 3 Episode 19
“Double Agent Droid” Star Wars Rebels focuses on the droids as the Empire reprograms Chopper to act against the Rebels and expose their hidden base. On the surface it seems like this episode might be an annoyance given that AP-5 sarcastically complains most of the time and Chopper communicates entirely in unintelligible noises but it’s…
Pixels
The Chris Columbus directed Adam Sandler comedy Pixels shows audiences what would happen if aliens invaded using imagery from popular 80s video games. Nostalgia is big right now. People are always keen to relive the glory of yesteryear and cast their mind back to a simpler time where your biggest troubles were being stuck on a…
