Collateral Beauty

A grieving father struggles to cope with the loss of his daughter until he is visited by representations of the universe to help him deal with his grief in David Frankel’s Collateral Beauty. That’s what the marketing of this film wants you to think it’s about and it definitely isn’t about that. I’ve heard a…

Triple 9

John Hillcoat’s Triple 9 boasts an all star cast playing gangsters and corrupt cops who plan to murder a police officer so that they can pull off a massive heist. The cast is a very impressive collection of actors who all play their parts believable. Chiwetel Ejiofor has an incredible presence and manages to be…

Steve Jobs

Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs brings audiences backstage at 3 of Apple’s major product launches to show the personal and professional problems that plagued the Apple CEO at these key points in his career. The film basically takes the structure of a 3 act play with each launch representing one of those acts. It starts with the launch…

On the Silver Screen – Insurgent

Robert Schwentke’s Insurgent is the second installment in The Divergent Series and continues the story that started in last year’s Divergent. The first film wasn’t good at all and if it weren’t for a friend wanting to see this I would have skipped this entirely due to how woefully uninspiring the overall premise is. In…